The state of Georgia will allow people to get a tax break by claiming a fetus as a dependent.
If that is the case, then a pregnant woman should be allowed to drive in the HOV lane because she has a passenger in her womb.
What other privileges can the state award to fetuses now that they are full-fledged people six weeks after conception?
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Perhaps a pregnant Republican will be allowed to vote twice?
Wonderful point! So a woman pregnant with twins can vote three times!
Yikes. Any day now, the Gates Foundation will be insisting that we are falling behind on giving standardized bubble tests to fetuses and insisting that we need a national database of fetus test scores with which to hold mothers accountable.
Good one, Bob.
Bill Gates would probably quality for the pregnancy tax credit if he moved to Georgia.
Yes! Waiting until they are born is too late for testing!
Can’t wait to read the Fordham “white paper” about how we are falling behind in fetal standardized testing.
RvW turnover is resulting in anti-RvW folks making up new rules & procedures as they go along at a rapid rate. Now, pregnancy counts as a tax credit. Can women drive in the Cruise Lanes if pregnant? Child support? Locking up women for medical emergencies…….
Back at the Race Purity & White Dominance Front: Here’s a crazy idea for the crazies – the Apgar Score at birth will be documented as every person’s Baseline Future Predictability Index (BFPI). Arne Duncan can probably predict what that child will achieve as an adult, based on the Apgar Score.
This score will be added to the data bank, along with FICO & others they’ll invent..
What happens with children who have disabilities, are different?
Going down that slippery Racist road.
BTW, GA is a truly weird state & getting weirder.
As the RvW power over women-controls roll out across the land, one thing that will impact the crazy’s pursuit of trying to control decent people & LGBTQ, MIXED RACE……..at some point, DNA will enter the picture & many Aryan Master Race fanatics…GOP/CPAC attendants & Co will try to control it. DNA will probably be used against women & will be controlled as another tool to NOT ID those in power’s GENETICS. During the Third Reich, when people married, they had to prove 7 generations back that there were no Jewish ancestors. This is how dangerous all this can get & we’re on the way. Very scary!
When I watch one of my favorite program, “Finding your Roots” with Dr. Henry Louis Gates – often, DNA & other documents reveal that their ancestors were slave owners, or raped by their owners & the % of race & ancestry revealed…..this will turn the belief of race purity all on its head. Will be interesting & frightening.
Just wait, the more they dominate women, store reproductive data, obsessions with race purity, ban books, force teachers, dictate curriculum, fake history, and white-washing everything (incl. Math?)….
it will become weirder, yet.
Scary & crazy times.
Listening to the NAZI speech by Victor Orbán is chilling & right out of The Third Reich. Frightening is the Alex Jones crap.Excellent CNN Jones Special tonight. Who knew all the connecting dots?
It goes on & on. Our government may not have enough prosecutors in the employment pipeline to process this huge population of criminals disrupting & destroying this Nation.
Exhaustion is an understatement.
Yes, it must be exhausting (and terrifying) to be a typical Repugnican today.
I had a heated discussion with an elderly Trumper today. He believes that teachers are teaching “sexuality” in the early grades. I said that’s ridiculous. He said I should prove it’s happening. I said you can’t prove a negative. I asked him for evidence that it’s happening. He had none.
Then he insisted Biden had stolen the election. I asked him why Bill Barr and Pat Ciopolone say otherwise. Talking to a wall.
After years of Faux News, these people are thoroughly indoctrinated. They aren’t reachable.
Insanity reigns is Georgia.
Billboards on the interstate traveling through Georgia:
Strip club
Megachurch
Megachurch
Strip club
Strip club
Megachurch
and so on
Insanity rains on Georgia” also works
Who knew the guys from Deliverance would someday run the state? Now they can make a whole state squeal.
Someone asked on Twitter whether a woman who had a miscarriage could be charged with tax fraud.
Exactly, Greg
I mean’t to write, “Insanity reigns IN Georgia.
“Insanity reigns” IS Georgia = more appropriate.
yup
Yvonne, actually INSANITY DOES RAIN IN GEORGIA REGULARLY!
We can’t make this stuff up.
truth
This is totally beyond stupid. Only from a state like Georgia who has low grade representation like Marjorie Taylor Greene can someone come up with making it possible to count fetuses for tax purposes.
I wonder what the Feds have to say about counting fetuses for tax purposes. It will be interesting to see how that plays out at the IRS offices in DC.
Now that fetuses are full-fledged people six weeks after conception in Georgia, should a pregnant women be required to pay double for movie theaters, stage plays, concerts, and sporting events?
I love that! A woman who is pregnant must pay double admission. Of course! Double air fare!
There is clearly now a market for take robotic fetuses that can be implanted in uteruses and made to look like the real thing on an ultrasound.
Shark Tank investors would be all in on that one.
The only question is how many years in a row could you claim a fetus as a dependent before the tax man would get size go it?
Would you have to name each fetus on the tax return to distinguish them from one another?
Presumably this means you can claim a fetus for one tax year and the resukting baby if it is born TV he next.
But can you claim the fetus and also claim the resukting baby (is, two dependents) for the same tax year,?
How about cases where a woman has multiple fetus’s, not all of which survive?
Can she still claim the oroginal number as dependents?
Is the zygote of four cells as countable as the zygote of eight? Does the fertilized egg in vitro count? If so, can the parents slip and break the test tube, this perpetually preserving the right to have a tax credit?
Some people are chimeras. They have two sets of DNA. Each is simultaneously their sibling and their self.
Guess that they will have to start paying for two concert tickets!
Thanks, Ms. Fan. A fascinating phenomenon! I feel a sci-fi story coming on!
Science teachers may already be familiar with the NSTA module “You Are Not the Mother of your children “. Case involving a mother who is an XX AND XX chimera. She almost lost custody of her children when she was being tested for welfare benefits.
Just read about this. Wow!
Bilateral gynandromorphic cardinal birds are pretty fascinating also. National Geographic even did a piece on the one seen in Pennsylvania a few years back.
Knowing that some people are XX AND XY does make the human transgender situation less simple than some anti transgender legislators make it out to be.
Ms. Fan, have you read Joan Roughgarten’s Evolution’s Rainbow? If not, I highly, highly, highly recommend it.
Thank you, I’ll check it out.
Two for the price of one special at the local pub?
In route to the Minnesota Court of Appeal (Axios)
Gender Justice represents a woman who was denied her prescription for the day after pill by a pharmacist. The case involves the violation of the Minnesota Human Rights Act. The jury did not decide what the law was, instead giving the woman $25,000 for her distress. She drove 50 miles to find another pharmacy that would fill the prescription.
I’m curious who pays the $25,000.
Much as it seems like a joke, this is basically a mechanism for spying on pregnant women.
Exactly right!!! The so called “Christians” on the far right want to make sure women are not doing anything to keep from getting pregnant. They will probably also be keeping another data base to see which men are getting vasectomies.
Fertility Trackers & discourage STUDS from getting a Vasectomy.
Contraception against the law.
Back decades – to using sheep intestines for condoms – illegal practice? They’ll block everything.
BREEDING is their motive.
We’ve lost Million+ people to Covid, US refuses to hire immigrants, women taking men’s jobs, need pregnant women to stay home, labor shortage, teacher shortage,……BREED BABY BREED!