This Week in Statehouse Action: In Like A Little Lyin’ Man edition

WHERE THE HELL DID MARCH COME FROM

Happy March, y’all!

Since “lions” of legislatures seem pretty tough to come by these days (Virginia has Louise Lucas, I suppose; who would you nominate from your favorite state?), I figured I’d use an adulterated homophone and a reference to an old-ass song to make a terrible joke.

But that kinda fits because most things are, indeed, terrible, and many lawmakers have either proven themselves liars already this year or made fools of the folks who didn’t think they were being honest about what they planned to do.

Take, say, IVF.

Two weeks after the Alabama Supreme Court’s absolutely bonkers decision that decreed that eight-celled embryos frozen in test tubes should be considered “children,” lawmakers in the legislature that 100% enabled this wretched ruling scrambled to slap a band-aid on the situation.

… the situation being, of course, that the liabilities that exist in the normal course of an IVF clinic’s business – not every clump of cells in a test tube makes it to actual baby-hood – mad…