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I have a couple friends in Raleigh heading over there right now to protest the anti-abortion bill that popped up tonight. Curious if anyone else in the area are heading over?
I don't know whether to protest or simply let the current legislative majority implode from their own hubris, with the hope that the NC electorate wises up sooner rather than later.
If I had known of this before now I certainly would have been there. I swear, North Carolina is almost an embarrassment with how much it is beginning to look like Texas.
Because legislating abortion clinics out of existing will surely help with that unemployment rate. Just as trying to declare Christianity the official state religion helped our economy.
For a General Assembly elected on the platform of fixing NC's economy, they sure are doing a lot of social legislating and not much economic legislating.
Glad to see that group going out to protest tomorrow. I might use some PTO to join them.
Glad to see that group going out to protest tomorrow. I might use some PTO to join them.
Up to 419 people now and still rapidly climbing. This is perhaps one thing I like about modern technical times. Social media makes it extremely easy to quickly rally for things like this. It also makes it extremely more and more difficult for idiotic politicians to pull **** like they used to be able to in the past unchecked. It also shows how out of touch politicians are with the modern world.
During discussion on the bill (Senate version of House Bill 695, the Sharia Law bill with sweeping abortion legislation tacked on) Martin L. Nesbitt, Jr, (D) Buncombe County, Minority Leader had this to say when he spoke on the bill:
"Now you all watch the news just like I do. I don't know how much you watched about Texas. We're sitting in here tonight and you're gonna win this debate and feel really good about yourself because all you big, grown-up, gray-haired men have beat three women. I wanna see what you do with about 10,000 of 'em — 'cause they're coming. They're coming. They're not gonna put up with you doing this to them in the dark of the night in the middle of a holiday week.
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I don't know how much more I can say. I can tell you this. You cannot keep doing this to the general public of this state. You got people already marching on this place and that's over how we been behaving. You start draggin' up a committee meeting with no notice to the public, go down there, and do a bill that disenfranchises women to this extent and they're not included in the debate, there's nobody there from their side to even speak for 'em, and bring the bill up here. And i'm sorry if I hurt your feelings. I didn't mean to hurt your feelings. I meant to tell the truth on this stuff because this is bad, bad business and this is not our place to abuse. This place deserves more respect than to do this kinda thing to the people."
"I do not see the public debate which this body has always represented. We present things in front of the public so that the public can know what we're doing. We don't sneak things in at 7:00 at night with no notice to the public, no chance to debate. But my own personal opinion about this bill is it has so little merit that I will not even do what I have done before on every bill that I have cared about, which is present facts, present logic, present the view of my constituents. This bill does not even merit debate on this floor."
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