There are so many conservative and libertarian kooks running in this midterm election that it's hard to keep up with them all, but there are few as dafted as Sharron Angle. Not only are people lazy welfare queens milking the system because of the apparent high salary unemployment gives them, but she actually believes that a young girl who is raped by her father should not be allowed to get an abortion.

Digby:

The thing I love most about tea partiers is their common sense approach to sticky problems. For instance, Sharron Angle has a plan for girls who are raped by their fathers and get pregnant. Force the little girl to have a child and then adopt both of them out to a new family!

Angle: I think that two wrongs don't make a right. And I have been in the situation of counseling young girls, not 13 but 15, who have had very at risk, difficult pregnancies. And my counsel was to look for some alternatives, which they did. And they found that they had made what was really a lemon situation into lemonade. Well one girl in particular moved in with the adoptive parents of her child, and they both were adopted. Both of them grew up, one graduated from high school, the other had parents that loved her and she also graduated from high school. And I'll tell you the little girl who was born from that very poor situation came to me when she was 13 and said 'I know what you did thank you for saving my life.' So it is meaningful to me to err on the side of life.

No word on what happened to the incest victim, but that's really not something anyone should waste much time worrying about.

And anyway it just shows that God provides many good alternatives to abortion for for young girls who are raped by their fathers --- perhaps we could just bend the rules a little bit and the little girl could marry her daddy so they could make a new family all their own. Talk about lemonade!

The Huffington Post:

In a radio interview Angle did in late June, the Tea Party favorite re-affirmed her pro-life sensibilities (rigid, as they are, even within Republican circles), when she insisted that a young girl raped by her father should know that "two wrongs don't make a right." Much good can come from a horrific situation like that, Angle added. Lemons can be made into lemonade.

When I saw "lemonade" in Digby's post I thought it was about the conservative fruitcake named Terry Savage, but I was wrong. These people live in the world created in a Glenn Beck novel.

If you're a woman in Oklahoma who wants an abortion for any reason, including rape and incest, steel yourself. The Oklahoma state legislature, following in the footsteps of its Utah and Kansas brethren, has just mandated vaginal probes before any abortion procedure can be done by any doctor in Oklahoma. When the governor inks these little gems into law, women can take their rightful place as second-class citizens with second-class rights.

One of the laws headed to the governor would require doctors to use a vaginal probe in cases where it would provide a clearer picture of the fetus than a regular ultrasound. Doctors have said this is usually the case early in pregnancies, when most abortions are done.

There's only one reason to get a "clearer picture". They want to heap a coal bin of guilt on any woman who dares to seek an abortion. If the probe doesn't keep her away, the 38-question cross-examination of her motives, background, race, education, and number of previous pregnancies might. If the probe and the questionnaire don't do the trick, the mandatory signs with mandatory font sizes with mandatory anti-abortion reminders might. And if all of those don't do the trick, maybe the cost of the procedure, which would likely double with the mandatory transvaginal ultrasound tacked on might, because they also voted to ban abortion coverage under state insurance exchanges under the new health care law.

Did I mention there were no exceptions for rape and incest? Imagine your daughter going through something like that. In typical religious right hypocrisy, these laws are intended to reflect "society's" belief that all children should be born even when 20% of them will be born into poverty and want, where society will abandon them to their own devices. The right is terrific at protecting fetuses. Children? Not so much.

The ultimate irony to hearing the teabaggers whine about government-run health care? Watching their state legislators create government-run health care. But only for women, of course. The men are secure in their right to Viagra.

UPDATED 4/23/10: Via NewsOK:

Gov. Brad Henry on Friday vetoed House Bill 2780, the ultrasound measure, and House Bill 2656, which would have banned lawsuits that claim a baby was better off aborted.

But it's not over till it's over...

An attempt will be made to override the governor’s vetoes of two anti-abortion measures, including one that would have required women to hear a description of an ultrasound examination before an abortion could be performed, House Speaker Chris Benge said Friday.

An override may not be all that difficult:

It will require more lawmakers to override this year’s vetoes. A two-thirds majority was needed in each chamber to override the 2008 veto. Because both HB 2780 and HB 2656 contained clauses that would have made them take effect immediately upon the governor’s signature, it will take a three-fourths majority in each chamber to override either veto.

Both bills passed the Oklahoma house with a 90% margin. But to override the governor's veto in the Senate, 36 votes are needed. Both measures passed the senate on a 35-11 vote. They'll have to pick up one more vote to override. Who knows whether they will or not.