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?