Hours after Kansas governor rejects pregnancy center protections, Legislature overrides her veto

My grandfather was there at the liberation of Buchenwald. All his life, he’d talk about this guy higher up in his unit who was facing court martial for refusing to take his men somewhere. I think I found the guy, years after both men had passed laid to rest in a cemetery somewhere in Ohio. I remember reading up on history & basically that’s the forgotten history of that camp. This guy & three others snuck into the camp, starting releasing prisoners—they knew where they were going and who was held where—and before long they started releasing others & the prisoners were the ones that took down the guards & staff. Then _they_ started taking prisoners. But the worst were dispatched swiftly & violently. They liberated themselves. To add to this scene, the first Americans roll up in force. It’s an all-black regiment. I remember from a documentary years ago, where an older woman was explaining that most had never seen a black face, while many others had not seen one in years & now here there so many coming up to the fences. And when someone asked if they were afraid, she said not in the least. The scene is described as pandemonium but the former inmates are singing & cheering and the black GIs must’ve looked like angels then. By the time my grandpa’s unit arrived half a day later, the killing was all long well & done. I think the black GIs just saw the world they were forced into in there & understood. F****** commandant’s wife had lampshades made of human skin. You’d understand wanting vengeance in that case. I remember my grandfather telling me how they were instructed to not give any chocolate bars to the kids who ran up begging for them. By this point many had distended bellies. So this NCO hatched a plan to avoid casualties by having troops just storm the gates (the camp would’ve been on alert over this by this point in the month of the war that year), went in with a few buddies, started releasing & arming the prisoners guerilla-style so they could secure the camp themselves. He later got in hot water because some officer wanted bag him for not letting him call the shots. And every year my grandpas war buddies would meet up at different cities in the Midwest every year, all wanting to buy this dude a beer or know whatever happened to him. Wish I could share the story with someone. I worry about accounts getting lost in the cracks of time ever since I started studying lost media.

……did he go to the bank!!??? You can’t just leave us hanging like that. 

Did they end up letting her access her money?

Ugh this happens to me with my mom and aunt. Interestingly enough, my grandma never forgets

They also forget how much the rich were taxed in the 50's.

"I want a do-nothing job that pays me enough to maintain a family, and for the bank to pay half my mortgage because of stagflation and COLA adjustments, but f*** the labor class? I guess?"

When concervatives pretend to be "CIS hetero", it should really come with a disclaimer. Those bathhouses were as popular with "cis hetero" men in the 1950's, as Grindr is today at a republican convention.

Who the hell espousing going back to the 50s or looks at it idyllic? Not disagreeing or angry at this comment, but just disbelief there is anyone other than white males who like that time period.

And if the SAFE act passes, women's right to vote will be restricted. The whole thing about it being about requiring an ID is a lie, unfortunately you need to read the details of the bill and compare it with national statistics to see that its clearly going after women's voting rights, particularly non-white, married/divorced, poor women. They are changing the rules right before an election on purpose, some of the documents required are documents that have never been needed in the past, the bureocrazy and cost to get them will be too high for many.

Nah, that's still post civil war

This article is confusing, just as confusing as pregnancy crisis centers are for women. She vetoed a bill that loosened restrictions on what information pregnancy crisis centers are allowed to dessiminate to the women seeking help from them. The information that they would like to give out it all the stuff like “your baby is YOURS” “At 4 weeks it has a heartbeat, a soul, etc”. These ‘crisis’ centers are usually religious centers aimed at manipulating women’s emotions just long enough so that they miss the cutoff for a legal abortion. They disguise and market themselves as crisis centers but are pro-life centers preying on vulnerable women. Basically, she vetoed a bill that seeks to PROTECT and ENCOURAGE these crisis centers. Hence why the article says “bi-partisan ANTI-abortion bill”, not “pro-choice bill”. The governor is listening to the women in Kansas who want abortion/autonomy protections. The state senate and house across party lines are ignoring what the voters want and are pushing pro-life legislation.

She vetoed a bill that is restrictive of private medical decisions, your point is nonsense.

We’ve been told the same thing in Ohio

She didn’t reject pregnancy center protections. She vetoed a pro-life pregnancy crisis center bill that sought to exempt pregnancy crisis centers from having to disseminate scientifically and statistically accurate information to pregnant women so that they can lie and manipulate them into not terminating their pregnancies. The state house and senate are pushing the pro-life legislation here, where as the governor vetoed it in support of the Kansas voters as the voters of Kansas have repeatedly voted for abortion protections.

Thanks for your clarification. I'm from Missouri and our Republican legislature really is trying to override the will of the electorate. Ready, fire, aim is not a good look. . .

Thanks a lot for explaining!