Abortion

MOSCOW, Idaho -- The word "freedom" loudly rang out from the Schweitzer Engineering Laboratory Event Center on Tuesday night, as international speaker and "abortion survivor" Gianna Jessen asked men to proudly stand and have a "Braveheart" movie moment.

Jessen, 34, spoke to a room filled to standing room only about her experience growing up with what she called the "gift of cerebral palsy" as a result of an unsuccessful saline abortion her birth mother had 7.5 months into her pregnancy. Jessen said that one in three women in America has had one or more abortions, and noted the amount of men often ignored in the decision to terminate a pregnancy.

SALT LAKE CITY -- A longer waiting period will be required before a woman could have an abortion in Utah under a new state law.

What's wrong with me?

This week's column was to be my crowning achievement, the absolute best humor piece of the year. Forty-five days in the making, I just knew it was going to be the funniest, most scathingly sarcastic wad o' journalism I'd written in a long, long while.

At least since last March.

But something happened on the way to putting together this wrap-up rant on the 2012 version of the bad TV reality show that is the Utah Legislature. Or, more accurately, nothing happened.

BALTIMORE -- A Maryland prosecutor says he had to drop murder charges against two abortion doctors after learning that an expert witness expected to testify that the fetuses were terminated in the county would change his testimony.

ELKTON, Md. -- Maryland prosecutors have dismissed murder charges against two out-of-state doctors in the death of a fetus during a 2010 procedure, citing conflicts in expert testimony.

“Even though Mitt Romney has regained momentum as the front-runner in the GOP race with wins in Arizona and Michigan, many within the Republican Party are ready to pull the rip cord and find someone else.”

— news item

Mitt may have Utah locked up, but he’s looking dicey elsewhere. There are more questions about President Barack Obama’s birth. It may be time to throw my hat into the ring and save the nation from the loonies.

Or at least introduce a different loon. Whatever.