Sometimes you can't help but say, "What the hell are people thinking?!"

[shipperx]

A couple of things.

 This has already been covered a few places under Lawmaker Compares Pregnant Women to Livestock  If you've missed it, see this article

Suggesting that if a cow or pig can give birth to a dead baby, then a woman should too was not enough for Rep. England. He then delivered an anecdote to the chamber in which a young man who was apparently opposed to legislation outlawing chicken fighting but who tjat said he would give up cockfighting if the legislature simply took away women’s right to an abortion.

There's video of some of this!

See:

The Georgia legislature is currently debating a bill that would ban abortions after twenty weeks. The written legislation,  applies not only to viable fetuses but also to ones that are already dead. This means that women would have to carry around their dead babies until their bodies chose to expel them naturally, putting their health at an incredibly high risk – both physically and mentally...

Why does Representative England think this is acceptable? (Cockfighting chickens.  Who can make this shit up?)  After all,

Rep England said, "Life gives us many experiences...I've had the experience of delivering calves, dead and alive. Delivering pigs, dead or alive. It breaks our hearts," 

Oh!  Guess that makes it okay then! (BTW, who the hell is your vet?!  I can't imagine a vet not inducing labor when they KNOW that the fetus is dead.  This happens to be dangerous for cows too!) 

*head desk*

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In other WTF. Rape?  Incest?  Pshaw! Perhaps it's just a 'misunderstanding':

The sponsor of an Idaho mandatory ultrasound bill, state Sen. Chuck Winder, made some highly controversial comments Monday during his closing arguments, suggesting women might falsely use rape as an excuse to obtain an abortion.

Just before the Idaho's Senate passed the bill, opponents of the bill pointed out that it makes no exception for rape victims, incest victims or women in medical emergencies.

Winder, a Republican from Boise, responded to those concerns by raising the question of whether women understand if they have been raped.

“Rape and incest was used as a reason to oppose this," Winder said on the Senate floor. "I would hope that when a woman goes in to a physician with a rape issue, that physician will  ask her about perhaps her marriage, was this pregnancy caused by normal relations in a marriage or was it truly caused by a rape.”

Rape? Incest? Marriage? How is a poor girl to know the difference?!

Comments

[sueworld2003.livejournal.com]

So women are just livestock now? *duh* why didn't I see it before! This explains everything...

Good grief.

[norwie2010.livejournal.com]

Well, your tag already says it: It is a war. You don't win wars with words.

[kittyb90.livejournal.com]

This makes me nearly speechless with rage.

[deborahw37.livejournal.com]

I don't know where to start! But I'm thinking a couple of house bricks (a painless method of emasculation unless you get your fingers trapped)

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

This morning the first thing I heard on the news was Rick Santorum claiming his main focus for his run for President was "freedom." I had to tweet, "Freedom for Americans, unless you happen to be gay or a woman." "Unless you are a woman" is the cry for all of these insane extremists. I used to just disagree with Republicans. Now they make me incoherent with rage.

[ms-scarletibis.livejournal.com]

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Why is all of this [blatant] backwards thinking happening now? Seriously,what the fuck is going on?