A Non-Exhaustive List of the Weirdest Shit Politicians Have Said About Women's Bodies

[Nevilledog]

https://jezebel.com/a-non-exhaustive-list-of-the-weirdest-shit-politicians-1849401421

A little no-name Utah politician is currently turning heads for his strange understanding of female biology. On Saturday, Salt Lake County Councilman Dave Alvord replied to a tweet from Vice President Kamala Harris about protecting reproductive rights and said that a fetus is not “a part of the body of a woman.”

“The umbilical chord [SIC] and placenta do not directly connect to the woman,” he tweeted. “The baby floats inside the woman. It is not about the woman’s body, it’s to kill then remove the baby’s body. It is done in greater proportion to black babies.” What does he think the umbilical cord connects to...an external power strip?

Alvord’s comments, while incredibly dumb, are not rare. People (mostly male politicians) being performatively obtuse about the uterus and its surrounding parts is an easy way to get anti-abortion donors and quickly cut an ad that shows just how much you’ll “fight for those babies.” And since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, it’s only gotten worse.

Here is an incomplete list of the weirdest things politicians have said about reproductive biology, sex, and abortion, including whether ectopic pregnancies can be reimplanted and what “legitimate” rape can and cannot do to the body.

Slideshow at link

[ck4829]

1. Remember, these people pass laws that we're supposed to call legitimate

Are we, though?

[leftieNanner]

2. Lordy!

This is quite a list! I also remember one white male stupid legislator who suggested that instead of a vaginal probe ultrasound, couldn't the woman just swallow a little camera so they could check on the fetus?

Um. Different body parts buddy.

Stunning that these idiots say this crap ON THE RECORD!

Thanks for sharing.

[3catwoman3]

4. I wonder if this eejit thinks his own...

...reproductive/excretory tract and gastrointestinal tract are connected.

In my nursing school class, way back in the early 1970s, most of us were 19-22 years old. We had an 40-smething married woman in the class who had somehow managed to give birth to 3 children without realizing she had a urethra AND a vagina. This came to light during a lecture on the urinary tract and catheterization. When the instructor showed several different catheters, this woman piped up, "How is that little thing going to stay in place? My husband is much bigger than that and fills me right up!"

We were speechless and really had to try hard not to laugh out loud.

As I recall, she dropped out of the program.

[leftieNanner]

5. This made me laugh!

Incredible that a grown woman doesn't understand her own physiology. Especially one enrolled in a nursing program.

[3catwoman3]

7. Even those of us who had not yet dispensed with our...

...virginity knew more than this woman.

[Warpy]

3. This isn't even the stupidest shit I've ever heard

I grew up Irish Catholic, 'nuff said.

While that church has been dragged kicking and screaming into accepting things like heliocentrism and even evolution, their understanding of female biology begins and ends with Aristotle.

[Timeflyer]

6. Wonder how long it took to toilet train some of these boys--their grasp of anatomy...

Oh, right, women's anatomy doesn't matter.