Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Masturbating fetuses? Really?

Okay, every time you think our congressmorons have reached the absolute pinnacle of ignorant buffoonery, you find out they’ve only got to the base camp & still have 3000 more feet to climb.

I am, of course, referring today to Rep. Michael Burgess, who is, of course, both a Republican & a Texan.

As part of the GOP’s never-ending war on anything that’s not white, male & possessed of a value system from the 1950s, Burgess was speaking—in the same chamber that once heard the reasoned arguments of Henry Clay, Thaddeus Stevens, Sam Rayburn & Tip O’Neill—in support of yet another bill to eat away at Roe v. Wade. This one would ban abortions at 20 weeks into the gestation period.

& what Burgess said was, "Watch a sonogram of a 15-week baby, and they have movements that are purposeful. They stroke their face. If they’re a male baby, they may have their hand between their legs. If they feel pleasure, why is it so hard to think that they could feel pain?"

Here are my questions:

As a Republican & a Texan (& presumably a fundamentalist Christian, although frankly I can’t be arsed to look it up), I wonder if Burgess doesn’t feel a little bit conflicted about the allegedly masturbating fetuses? Because I’m pretty sure he’d be one of the ones to tell teen-aged boys to keep their hands out of their pants.

He’s been a practicing OB-GYN. Does he really think only male fetuses put their hands between their legs? Or are those the only ones he bothered to look at?

He’s been a practicing OB-GYN. What’s up with him disregarding all the studies refuting the notion that fetuses feel pain at that stage?

& finally, he’s been a practicing OB-GYN. Who the hell would want to have him anywhere near her lady parts?



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