Genius Alabama Rep. Says a Baby is the ‘Largest Organ in a Body’

[Are_grits_groceries]

The Alabama House of Representatives is set to vote on abortion legislation Tuesday that would impose a variety of uneccesary restrictions on abortion clinics: providers would need to have admitting privileges at local hospitals (not such an easy feat when your local hospital thinks abortion is murder), clinics would have to follow needlessly prohibitive building codes, and nurses, nurse practitioners and physician's assistants would be charged with a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison for dispensing abortion-inducing medications to patients.

Most of those are the good ol' TRAP (Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers) standbys we're familiar with; Mississipi might lose its only abortion clinic because of similar legislation. But bill sponsor Rep. Mary Sue McClurkin came up with a creative defense for her legislation that we don't think we've heard before. From the Montgomery Advertiser:

"When a physician removes a child from a woman, that is the largest organ in a body," McClurkin said in an interview Thursday. "That's a big thing. That's a big surgery. You don't have any other organs in your body that are bigger than that."

My liver, heart, and skin are all very excited that we are now giving organs personhood rights, although the latter is slightly upset about losing out on its "largest organ in the human body" rep.
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McClurkin's pancreas did not respond to requests for comment.
http://jezebel.com/5985082/genius-alabama-rep-says-a-baby-is-the-largest-organ-in-a-body

They need a looooong ride on the Magic School Bus

[Electric Monk]

1. DB beat you to it

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022396907

[TwilightGardener]

2. There's always that bittersweet day when you put your organs on the school bus

for the first day of kindergarten. Ah, memories.

[sakabatou]

3. *facepalm*

[Warpy]

4. Only if rubber rooms and rear ends full of antipsychotics

are at the end of it. Maybe when they stop seeing pixies we can get through to them and teach them the stuff they should have been taught by the schools decades ago.

There is no real excuse for this level of ignorance except psychosis.

[Kalidurga]

5. Saw this in another thread...

but, I am still mind bobbled.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

6. Sheeze,...preparing for all the organ size comparisons to come.

[Are_grits_groceries]

7. I obviously did not see the first post.

If I rend my garments and ask for forgiveness for a week will that suffice or will I have to try to draw and quarter myself?

[azurnoir]

8. so now wait a minute it's tax time and if a child is an organ

but you can claim the organ as a dependent then what about other organs, there's a world of possibility there

[dogfacedboy]

9. Stupid people are elected to office by people who are even more stupid...

[CanonRay]

10. I feel stupid, trying to comprehend exactly how stupid these people are

It just defies my imagination. Were they all fucking home schooled?

[hobbit709]

11. That level of stupid should be immediately and extremely painful.

[gollygee]

12. None of my organs have naturally left my body on their own

by squeezing through an organ specifically made for that purpose.

He's full of shit. Obviously.

[47of74]

16. She

This is actually a woman who spouted that horse manure.

[trof]

13. Teh stoopid never stops here in Dixie.

And the beat goes on...

[47of74]

14. Does the GOP drag a pack of $100 bills through trailer parks...

...and whoever manages to hang on until they get outside is the one they encourage to run for public office?

[SaveAmerica]

15. oh, Alabama