“As Bad As You Can Make It”

by digby

Good news. South Dakotans got the repeal of the coathanger law on the ballot. But what’s most impressive is that they got 37,846 signatures on their petitions. That’s a lot of signatures in a state than only has about 770,000 people and almost 27% of them are under 18 and can’t vote. Let’s hope they vote this cruel law down in November. South Dakota is as red a state as there is. If this things has gone too far for them then there’s no way anyone can claim it is a mainstream position.

I hadn’t seen this cartoon by Stephanie McMillan about our good friend Bill Napoli, the creator of the Sodomized Virgin exception. You can buy a print or a t-shirt here and it will go to benefit family planning clinics.

And it will greatly annoy Bill Napoli:

“The cartoon generated a huge amount of filth, intolerable filth.”
— Senator Bill Napoli

He knows from filth:

A real-life description [of an exception] to me would be a rape victim, brutally raped, savaged. The girl was a virgin. She was religious. She planned on saving her virginity until she was married. She was brutalized and raped, sodomized as bad as you can possibly make it, and is impregnated. I mean, that girl could be so messed up, physically and psychologically, that carrying that child could very well threaten her life.

This is a man who thinks he has right to tell women what they can do with their own bodies.

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