Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) quietly signed new abortion restrictions into law on the Friday after the Fourth of July that will require “women seeking abortions to undergo an ultrasound and ban doctors who lack admitting privileges at nearby hospitals from performing the procedures.” The law could force two state abortion clinics to close their doors and is already sparking legal challenges from reproductive health advocates…. Walker, who may be considering a presidential bid in 2016, “didn’t sign the bill in public, instead sending out a statement early Friday afternoon saying the bill was now law.” The governor followed a similar strategy in 2012, when he enacted controversial bills to significantly limit access to abortion services and sex education on the eve of a holiday weekend and announced the laws in a press statement two days later.
It’s been said (often by me) that the hallmark of a bully is a pronounced inability (or refusal) to do what you do in the light of day. If you lack the courage to do something unpopular, hyper-partisan, and/or just plain mean-spirited, if you have to do it under the cover of darkness or when no one’s watching, you’re a coward. Or you’re Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, who by any measure is a world-class coward.
Determined to create a world that caters to the whims of the Koch brothers and that consigns women to the status of chattel and the property of men, Walker is forcing Wisconsin into the business of policing the uterus of Wisconsin women. Since Roe v. Wade won’t allow Republicans to pass an outright ban on abortion, Walker and his minions did the next best thing. They passed a law stating that any woman desiring to have an abortion should be forced to have a 10” ultrasound wand inserted into her vagina. That there’s no medical necessity for doing this matters not to those who believe they know what’s best for women. I have to assume that the purpose is to demean and intimidate women into making the “right” decision (“Right” being of course defined by well-fed Conservative White males).
Walker didn’t have the guts to sign the bill when the media and Wisconsinites would have been paying attention. He probably didn’t want to answer a lot of (justifiably and understandably) direct questions about how this bill will benefit the people of Wisconsin…because the fact is that it won’t. Walker has to know at some level- though I suspect he lacks even a minimal degree of self-awareness- that this bill is a mean-spirited and medically unjustifiable travesty. That he chose to sign it in a manner designed to attract as little attention as possible only serves to confirm his cowardice. Cockroaches tend to scatter when you turn on the lights.
They lie and they lie and they lie. One day they will roast in their own sin and the Devil will baste them in the sticky goo of their awful falsehoods.
Scott Walker shouldn’t be allowed to manage a Dairy Queen, much less the state of Wisconsin. The idea of him being President is a laughable as it is ridiculous. Walker couldn’t lead a pack of hungry Cub Scouts to a McDonalds; that idea that he could be thought qualified to lead the most powerful nation in the world is something that defies rational understanding.
Karma can be a real b—-h, and I believe that Scott Walker will get his (as will other Republican cowards and tyrants), and probably sooner than any of us realize. I can only hope there’s a reserved parking spot waiting for him in Hell.
