Tennessee Taliban works to ban abortion

Republican theocrats in Tennessee are working successfully to change the state constitution to make sure that they later have the right to ban all abortions. Such a law just passed in South Dakota was pushed through by Republican theocrats there.

The Tennessee amendment says that nothing in the Constitution says that abortion is a right. A clause that made exceptions for rape or incest was voted down. The theocrats feel that if a woman is raped and becomes pregnant she has the responisibilty to carry the pregnancy to term. Rape exceptions were voted down in South Dakota as well.

The purpose for the amendment is obvious. The hope is that with Republican theocrats on the US Supreme Court that a challenge to legal abortions can now be made and might win. South Dakota intends their law to do just that. They now feel that Bush has appointed enough justices to the court to push the court in their direction. They want men who vote their religion. Already with robes similar to the mullahs maybe all the justices need are turbans?

Once the Supreme Court reverses itself on abortion then the US Taliban takes the fight to the states where all the Bush states are likely to line up to ban abortion immediately. But they need to make sure that there is nothing in the state constitution which limits governmental power to do that. So much for small government. Please note the theocrats are not traditional Republicans at all. They are advocates of big government. So far all their attempts to change constitutions, either at the state or the federal level, has been expand the power of government over the individual.

The illustration comes from a anti-abortion group. Please note it has the "Uncle Sam" figure holding a rosary. Uncle Sam represents the US government. They don't hide their desire to make the US government an instrument of church policy.