Folks, once a politician in Tennessee starts talking about abortion, you might as well just read that as “I don’t actually have any ideas for fixing the state and so I need to bring out the bogeyman to scare you!”
Tennessee, it is time for you to realize, they have made it as difficult as legally possible to get an abortion in this state (while still preserving the ability for their daughters and wives and mistresses to get them, should need be) and it has been for at least the past three or four years. This is it. This is what “you won!” looks like.
But now they’ve got a problem. They have been riding that “we will have a victory over abortion!” train so hard and so long to such success that they don’t want off it. They still want to be able to pull out the bogeyman and have him work on you. So, now the problem isn’t just abortion. Now the bogeyman is Planned Parenthood. And when they find a way to defund Planned Parenthood?
Mark my word, they will find another bogeyman.
Because they have no ideas and it’s easier to come up with bogeymen than it is to come up with solutions for our state.
But, in lighter news, the Haslam administration is going to be hilarious, because he’s so easily made pissy. Maybe we should start taking bets on how often he will threaten to take something away from Tennessee if he’s going to be criticized about his handling of it.
Tiny Cat Pants 
“Maybe we should start taking bets on how often he will threaten to take something away from Tennessee if he’s going to be criticized about his handling of it. ”
That’s the mind set of the plutocratic class. Remember Bush and his frat boy arrogance? “My way or the highway”
I’ve decided to vote for one of the third party candidates rather than a Republican and a Republican wannabe.
Maybe I would think this was funnier if I didn’t know that when Haslam and his buddies find a way to defund Planned Parenthood that thousands of poor, mostly minority women will no longer have anywhere to go for low-cost or free gynecological care, Pap tests, breast exams and birth control. But nobody really cares what happens to poor, minority women, right? Besides, if they are sexually active, they are bad and therefore deserve to suffer from sexually transmitted infections, cervical cancer and unwanted pregnancies, right? I mean, why should we let modern medicine come between these women and the punishment God clearly intends for them to suffer for their sins?
The right has done a great job of making sure that the majority of Tennesseans think Planned Parenthood=abortion. The rest of the equation is: abortion=murder, therefore Planned Parenthood=evil. Nevermind that generations of Tennessee women, including me, have gone to Planned Parenthood for exams and birth control when they literally had no place else to go for vital preventive care. Good job!