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An anti-abortion group is using the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision -- a ruling that the group vehemently disagrees with -- to argue that a Texas teen cannot be forced by her parents to get an abortion because the law gives her a "choice."

Lawyers with the Texas Center for Defense of Life said that they had asked Harris County, Texas district court to grant a temporary restraining order on behalf of a 16-year-old girl who is nine weeks pregnant.

"We were asking judge to stop them physically forcing her to have an abortion," attorney Stephen Casey told KPRC. "She is legally protected. So, they cannot drag her to an abortion clinic and force an abortion on our client."

The teen girl, who was not identified by name, alleged that her mother "invited the paternal grandparents to a bar for further discussion, where she suggested that she might slip her an abortion pill through deception," according to the lawsuit.

The lawsuit also said that the girl's father told her that "he was going to take her to have an abortion and that the decision was his, end of story."

Casey, however, contended that the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision protecting a woman's decision to have an abortion also gave her the "choice" not to have one.

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Lawrence O'Donnell took apart the myth in his Rewrite segment this Monday evening that there's an ounce of difference between the views of Paul Ryan and Todd Akin on abortion and exceptions for rape and the life of the mother. But despite the fact that their policy positions are nearly identical, Todd Akin gets treated as a loon while the media continues to treat Paul Ryan with great deference.

I agree with him and it's not just the abortion issue where he's given too much deference. How anyone with the monstrosity of a budget he came up with that makes the deficit worse and goes after the poor and elderly and most vulnerable in our society as some "policy expert" on the budget is beyond me.

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I've got to wonder if CNN's Howard Kurtz has ever once asked if the media was spending too much time focusing on a story that's bad for Democrats. From this Sunday's Reliable Sources, Kurtz asks his panel if the media has been intentionally trying to keep the Todd Akin story alive and to their credit, he can't get a single one of them to agree with him that the story didn't deserve the amount of air time it got.

He couldn't get any of them to agree that it's biased to talk about the fact that the Republicans policies are very hostile to women, or that it wasn't perfectly fair to bring their vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan's views into the debate either. Sorry to disappoint you Howie, but sometimes the facts just happen to have a liberal bias and all the concern trolling by you for Republicans isn't going to change that.

And it's not the "liberal media" that threw Akin under the bus when this happened and demanded he get out of the race. That would be the Republican establishment and their allies in the media and right wing blogs that were responsible for that and for keeping the story alive as well. I don't believe there's a chance in hell if the tables were turned and this was a Democrat getting thrown under the bus for something they said that Kurtz would be saying one word about the amount of media coverage the story received.

When you can't even get any of your fellow Villagers to agree with you, it's time to hang it up Howie.

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Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said Wednesday that he believes abortion should be allowed "under no circumstances," but added that it "gets down to a choice that that family or that mother has to make."

"I believe that life begins at conception," Cain told CNN's Piers Morgan. "And abortion under no circumstances."

"If one of your female children, grand children was raped, you would honestly want her to bring up that baby as her own?" Morgan asked.

"You're mixing two things here, Piers," Cain objected. "It comes down to it's not the government's role or anybody else's role to make that decision. Secondly, if you look at the statistical incidents, you're not talking about that big a number. So what I'm saying is it ultimately gets down to a choice that that family or that mother has to make."

"By expressing the view that you expressed, you are effectively -- you might be president," Morgan noted. "You can't hide behind now the mask, if you don't mind me saying, of being the pizza guy. You might be the president of United States of America. So your views on these things become exponentially massively more important. They become a directive to the nation."

"No they don't," Cain disagreed. "I can have an opinion on an issue without it being a directive on the nation. The government shouldn't be trying to tell people everything to do, especially when it comes to social decisions that they need to make."

The former Godfather's Pizza CEO also reiterated that he believes homosexuality is a sin and a choice.

"I think it's a sin because of my biblical beliefs and although people don't agree with me, I happen to think that it is a choice," he said.

"You genuinely believe millions of Americans wake up in their late teens normally and go, you know what, I quite fancy being a homosexual?" Morgan wondered. "You don't believe that."

"OK, so it's your gut instinct against my gut instinct. It's a wash. It's a push," Cain insisted. "That being said, I respect their right to make that choice. You don't see me bashing them or anything like that. I respect their right to make that choice. I don't have to agree with it. That's all I'm saying."

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Wow. Every time I think this woman can't one up the stupid from the last time I saw her, she manages to out do herself again. Apparently the Tea Party Express was making its way through Michigan to protest Bart Stupak and Victoria Jackson was part of the "entertainment". Lots of mindless birther, Communism and Marxism rantings and some big applause from the crowd when she mentions Glenn Beck. Imagine that? Victoria Jackson... poster child for the stoopid. I would feel so much better if this were actually an act.

h/t Amerigo Vespucci at DU