Madison Cawthorn Calls Women "Earthen Vessels" in Unhinged Rant About Abortion

[RandySF]

As Roe v. Wade teeters on the edge of being overturned or gutted by the U.S Supreme Court, far-right republicans are offering all sorts of nonsense talking points to deprive Americans of their reproductive rights. There’s Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s dismissal of the trauma of forced birth and adoption. And now extremist Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) has added his two cents, in an unhinged rant that compares abortions to Polaroids and sunsets, and refers to women as “earthen vessels.” All very normal and not at all talking points from The Handmaid’s Tale!

Cawthorn, who previously advised parents, “if you are raising a young man, please raise them to be a monster,” described abortion as someone taking a Polaroid picture, detailing “You hold it and shake it, waiting for the picture to appear, but suddenly someone walks by and snatches your photo, ripping it to shreds… You cry, ‘Why did you destroy my picture? The person replies, ‘oh it wasn’t a picture it wasn’t fully developed yet.”

The rant then descends into biblical nonsense, where serial sexual harasser Cawthorn calls women “earthen vessels” and adds “One day, perhaps when science darkens the soul of the left, our nation will repent.” Okay, what?

This analogy is so bonkers and wildly incoherent that it hurts my brain just to type it out. Is Cawthorn implying that 9 months of pregnancy and giving birth is akin to a Polaroid camera spitting out an image? Are women the cameras in this metaphor? What if producing a photo caused the camera to break or cease to function entirely?




https://www.themarysue.com/madison-cawthorn-earthen-vessels-abortion/

[RockRaven]

1. Given everything this ignorant cretin spews, this is a minor point, but...

Polaroid pictures are not supposed to be shaken, so if the moron in his analogy is shaking the Polaroid, they are fucking doing their part in the process wrong anyway. The whole thing is fucked up from end to end.

Here's a CNN article from 2004 (and the website looks like it), likely before Madison even hit puberty or had any clue what any sort of woman-vessel analogy would even mean: https://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/02/17/polaroid.warns.reut/

[TreasonousBastard]

2. His audience knows exactly what he means. This is from the Bible...

so don't bother to get into it with them

[smirkymonkey]

3. I really hate him, but he is so fucking stupid, that I never take anything he says seriously

anyway. I mean, this guy beats up innocent, helpless trees, FFS!

[rockfordfile]

4. That pos should gtfo of our country.

[patphil]

5. I have no idea why Christians quote the Old Testament.

It has nothing to do with Jesus or his teachings.
From my point of view, most of the Old Testament is pure BS...not the word of God at all.
And this is coming from a man who's soul appears to be more on the dark side than most.

[GPV]

7. They cite Christ coming not to abolish the law but to uphold it.

[Funtatlaguy]

6. I wonder if he had these awful thoughts before his car accident.

He just seems very bitter to be such a young man.

[Irish_Dem]

8. I'm wondering if he suffered brain damage in the accident.

Or if he is doing drugs.

He is so crazy and angry.

[Sympthsical]

9. We're assuming he believes it

He knows his audience. He need only be concerned their approval. Mix in evangelicals who will donate and pay for appearances.

His new district is only 30% Democratic.

He always comes off as an idiot frat kid to me. Kind of a mimbo. His social media doesn't strike me as someone who's actually living some kind of devout life.

Just say the stuff, get elected, collect the cash.