A speech from a Georgia Republican state representative surfaced last week in which he compared women seeking abortions of stillborn fetuses to cows and pigs.
State Rep. Terry England was speaking in favor of HB 954, which makes it illegal to obtain an abortion after 20 weeks even if the woman is known to be carrying a stillborn fetus or the baby is otherwise not expected to live to term.
He then recalled his time working on a farm:
“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 to see those animals not make it.”
There's video of this fucking moron at the link.
--WT, disgusted beyond words
Oh, that's okay. Heard on NPR this morning two folks from Tennessee saying that Obama was a Mooslim and that he was from Kenya and had a non-American citizen father, therefore he wasn't officially president.
Posted by: mothra | March 13, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Carry a dead fetus to term? My wife and I faced this exact situation. The Doctors were adamant that a D+C was needed on an emergency basis to save my wife from toximia and death. Not a lot of "choice" involved.We had to push our way into and out of the clinic through an Operation Rescue Mob screaming at my wife that she was "killing your baby". I had to physically remove several of them even after shouting at them that our "baby" was already dead. Found that out from an ultrasound tech at the 5 month check up. My wife asked about heartbeat and he said" why no, your baby's dead". The Gladys Kravitz party isn't helping anyone here. They would have made the death of my wife a forgone conclusion. As it was the added stress led to months of counselling and depression.
Posted by: flint | March 13, 2012 at 11:43 AM
I've reached the point where conservative men and women now make me automatically want to throw up. Disgusting ignorance and cruelty is inexcusable. That is all the GOP has.
Posted by: teresa | March 13, 2012 at 01:48 PM
Sorry you and Mrs. Flint had to endure that.
Someday may these Randall Terry frotagging Operation Rescue terrorists have to walk in the shoes of their judgees.
Posted by: HarpoSnarx | March 13, 2012 at 02:36 PM
Yup, ignorance by the butt-load and a stubborn refusal to consider the human cost -- because they don't value themselves, they don't understand you should value yourself.
This is the lexicon of many of the white peasant class today -- "I have no value and am disposable and I've found a way to deal with that without changing anything -- but it requires your complicity in the game."
Posted by: kate | March 13, 2012 at 02:38 PM
I'm beginning to see the strategy behind Reagan's emptying out the mental hospitals....
Posted by: montag | March 13, 2012 at 06:58 PM