Stevenson: abortion bill = Civil War?
Stevenson
JEFFERSON CITY — The Capitol is abuzz about Rep. Bryan Stevenson, R-Webb City, who said this morning on the House floor the federal Freedom of Choice Act is the most egregious federal power grab since the “War of Northern Aggression.”
He later apologized at the urging of Rep. Don Calloway, D-Bel Nor.
Stevenson made the statement during the discussion of a resolution that would urge the U.S. Congress to reject the act, which would prohibit government interference in abortion.
Although President Barack Obama has made his support for FOCA clear, state Rep. Chris Kelly, D-Columbia, pointed out that no bill has yet been filed.
“This is a meaningless resolution about imaginary legislation,” he said. “It does not do one single thing to decrease the number of abortions in the state of Missouri.”
The resolution, HR 294, has been laid over.
I have heard people from the south refer to the War Between the States as the War of Northern Aggression, but Stevenson should check his history. Missouri’s sympathies in that war were deeply divided, but the western Ozarks from whence Stevenson hails was solidly pro-Union. The southern sympathy areas were the rural counties that, until about a decade ago, voted Democratic. The historically Republican rural areas, including Stevenson’s home base, were pro-union. (The Civil War sympathies of urban areas stopped being a factor in their voting behavior long before that.)
If anyone is wondering what Strom Thurmond’s spirit has been up to lately, it has obviously infiltrated/possessed Stevenson.
I’m always amused watching my cat chase his own tail.
The Republicans had their chance.
They decided to kill women and children in Iraq instead of ending abortion.
What an idiot.
This is basically a racist comment - his area is mainly white and still fighting the Civil War, and now a war on women.
I salute Representative Stevenson for stating his opposition to the FOCA. Would I declare it to be something akin to the Civil War or “War of Northern Aggression”? No. But I understand where he is coming from. And don’t forget the 10th amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
Someone else is pursuing the same avenue. And they should because if they don’t, we are looking at a huge crisis.
http://www.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills091/bills/HR294.htm
You can look at this and dismiss it, but it is a big deal. If you don’t want to admit, fine, but then don’t be surprised when it gets to be an even bigger deal!
God Bless Rep. Stevenson for telling it like it is.
It’s hard to deny that abortion is politically divisive in this country.
However, “War of Northern Aggresssion” is racist code-speak. Much like “state’s rights” was in the twentieth century.
Yes, ALnANTONI, God should bless Stevenson. Not for “telling it like it is”, but to help him overcome the darkness in his heart.
The statement may have been absurd and stupid, and his opposition to this non-existant measure ridiculous and wrong, but those claiming there’s anything remotely racist about this are horribly wrong.
The war was about far, far more than slavery, and those who come from the south, and are proud of our Confederate ancestors whether it’s expressed appropriately or not, are NOT automatically racist. The claim that preserving Confederate memorials in Higginsville and Pilot Knob was “racist” was a vicious lie, and insults honest history.
Stevenson is an idiot, just spend five min with him and you will see he might be an attorney but he is a fool. BTW, I think he meant what he said for him to say he didn’t know that was offensive is just stupid.