North And South, Oh What A Difference

This is a good example of how the North is difference than the South…

Louisiana Republican: Ban Abortion, Sterilize Poor Women and Pay the Wealthy to Procreate
Care2Make A Difference
by: Angela Braun
4/29/11

Louisiana State Rep John Labruzzo (R) has introduced "feticide" legislation to ban all abortion in his state and sentence women and doctors who violate the ban to 15 years hard labor. The law would make no exceptions for cases of danger to the health of the mother, incest or rape, and would essentially be an attempt to overturn Roe v. Wade in the state of Louisiana.

In previous attempts to manipulate, penalize and reward women's reproductive choices, Labruzzo has also suggested Louisiana law should pay poor women to be sterilized and well-to-do women to crank out more financially secure kids into the American gene-pool.

Now take a look at what happened here in Connecticut yesterday…

Republicans Offer 75 Amendments To Budget, Including One That Eliminates Planned Parenthood Funding
CT News Junkie
by Christine Stuart
May 2, 2011

Republican Senators filed 75 amendments on the state budget Monday before debate began at around 4 p.m. this afternoon. It’s unclear how many of them they planned to call, but one of those amendments so infuriated Democratic lawmakers that they held a press conference to address it.

The amendment filed by Sen. Len Suzio, R-Meriden, eliminated $1 million in state funding for Planned Parenthood.
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House Majority Leader Brendan Sharkey, D-Hamden, said he’s disappointed Republicans are taking fiscal matters and interlacing their “extreme policy agenda” in the middle of a very serious discussion on the budget.

A little bit of a difference between Louisiana and Connecticut. Unfortunately, Sen. Len Suzio would fit right in down in Louisiana.

This is what legislators had to say about Sen. Len Suzio amendment.