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This is where I call bullshit on all manner of things. I think the world is finally ready.

First up, we get to delve into abortion, which is cool because we also get to mock a southern state. The South Carolina is legislature is considering a law which would require women to look at a picture of the fetus before the fetus is aborted.

Basically, the state has conceded that it can't actually ban abortion, so it's taking steps to make women (who are making what has to be the hardest decision ever) feel even shittier than they already do.

Abortion, for the time being, is legal. Making people feel shitty for engaging in a legal act sucks. Hey, South Carolina, why not make people look at a scan of their own carbon-filled lungs before buying a pack of cigarettes? (South Carolina, after all, has a long history of tobacco farming.) How about making fat people weigh in before buying a bag of chitlins? (Yes, an annual chitlin festival known as the "Chitlin Strut" is held every year in Salley, South Carolina.)

This is the dumbest idea since Kansas wanted high school teachers to teach creationism.

Here's the thing. Beginning in about 1980, the right wingers of the world held the executive branch (Reagan) and the Congress. Within a couple of years, the federal judiciary had dozens of judges at all trial and appellate levels, including a right-leaning majority in the Supreme Court. And yet, abortion remains legal.

Why?

Here's your answer: Because legal abortion is too useful a campaign tool to get rid of. If the right actually outlawed abortion, which it could have done for YEARS, it would have given up a surefire rallying cause. They don't want to get rid of abortion. They just want to complain that they can't. It brings people to the polls.

And the people who really do care about outlawing abortion? Well, they just haven't seemed to figure it out. (I don't think they have a lot of smarts, really.) So they keep voting for the same dickheads who say they want to get rid of abortion, but they never demand accountability.

Seriously, if GW and his buddies could drag us into the clusterfuck that is Iraq, don't you think they could have managed to outlaw abortion, too. Or at least tried?