re: #78 Belafon

Republicans in Michigan are pushing to remove “democratic” and “democracy” from social studies. The DK diary references a Washington Post article. It’s as bad as we’ve come to expect from Michigan Republicans.

The same schmuck behind that is also behind this:

Michigan Republicans Manage to Tie Anti-Vaccine and Anti-Abortion Propaganda Into One Bill (Goes to Splinter, more at the link):

What do you do when you want conservative, Catholic parents to stop vaccinating their kids? You tell them the vaccines are made out of “aborted fetal tissue.”

The Michigan state legislature is considering a new Republican-backed bill, SB 1055, which would require healthcare officials to ask for informed consent before giving vaccines with “aborted fetal tissue,” a.k.a. cells of legally aborted fetuses from the 1960s. These cells were not acquired for the purpose of making these vaccines and are multiplied over and over again. No new cells have been extracted ever since.

Vaccines with such cells include those against diseases known to be highly contagious, like measles, chicken pox and hepatitis.

What happened to my birth state? Where did all the wingnuts come from? As conservative as Nebraska is, it isn’t crazy like that.