Fetus-powered street lamps? Republicans ramp up outrageous anti-abortion lies

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Amanda Marcotte
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During yesterday's hearing on abortion rights, the GOP's main witness claimed that D.C.'s electrical company powers the lights with incinerated fetuses.

Republicans aren't even trying to make their lies sound plausible anymore.

Read more: https://salon.com/2022/05/19/fetus-powered-street-lamps-ramp-up-outrageous-anti-abortion-lies-ahead-of-roes-demise/…


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10:17 AM · May 19, 2022

https://www.salon.com/2022/05/19/fetus-powered-street-lamps-ramp-up-outrageous-anti-abortion-lies-ahead-of-roes-demise/

It was only one half-hour into Wednesday's congressional hearing on abortion access when it became clear that the Republican contributions to the day would be loonier than a QAnon message board.

"In places like Washington D.C.," fetuses are "burned to power the light's of the city's homes and streets," claimed Catherine Glenn Foster, who had, just minutes before, sworn not to lie under oath. The GOP-summoned witness let loose the wild and utterly false accusation that municipal electrical companies are powered by incinerated fetuses.

"The next time you turn on the light, think of the incinerators," she said, apparently repeating a misleading talking point from the same anti-choice activists caught stashing fetuses at home. Everything on the right is psychological projection.

So that's where Republicans are these days: Arguing that we live in a janky version of the Matrix, except powered by fetuses instead of actual people.

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[RKP5637]

1. The US really needs mass mental institutions again. Lots of really F'ed people running on the loose.

[mopinko]

2. good lord.

someone charge this waste of meat w perjury. please.

[TheBlackAdder]

8. Because we all know crematoriums are self-powered.

[gratuitous]

3. Is that better or worse than windmill cancer?

This looniness is not a new phenomenon.

[milestogo]

4. If ashes really could make power...

[lapfog_1]

5. That is a complete waste of baby parts.

Soylent Green is ABORTED BABIES!!!

[Turbineguy]

6. This lady should have listened in thermo class.

fetuses are well known to have low calorific content.

[Towlie]

7. Time to build yourself an inside-out house and call it "Outside of the Asylum".

 
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[TheBlackAdder]

9. It boggles the mind how these crazies are not punished for perpetuating lies in official settings.

[Blue Owl]

10. MTG Fest

Whoever can out-stupid the dumbest wins a free GOP congressional campaign!