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Georgia lawmaker compares women to cows and pigs
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/09/georgia-lawmaker-compares-women-to-cows-and-pigs/Georgia lawmaker compares women to cows and pigs
By David Edwards
Friday, March 9, 2012 14:41 EST
Republican Georgia state Rep. Terry England says that his experience with cows, pigs and chickens has proven to him that women should be forced to have their babies after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
In a debate over Georgia House Bill 954, which would ban abortions after 20 weeks even if the baby is not expected to live, England recalled the time he had spent with livestock.
Life gives us many experiences, he explained. Ive had the experience of delivering calves, dead and alive delivering pigs, dead and alive. It breaks our hearts to see those animals not make it.
~snip~
Opponents have said that the so-called fetal pain bill would force women to carry stillborn fetuses or to have a Cesarean delivery. Doctors could also face 10 years in prison if they are involved in illegal abortions.
unhappycamper comment: I think this puts Georgia in the final three 'Stupid of the Year" quotes.
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Georgia lawmaker compares women to cows and pigs (Original Post)
unhappycamper
Mar 2012
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mzteris
(16,232 posts)1. that jerk
couldn't handle having a period, much less having a baby!
I hate men who think they know what is best for women.
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)2. so he's basing his argument
on the opinion and offer of someone apparently involved in cockfighting?!?! For real?!?!
n2doc
(47,953 posts)3. That's My State!
And people wonder why democrats have such a hard time down here. It's because people elect the dumbest, most devolved cretins possible.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)4. I think some of our stupid blew over into your state...sorry bout that.
As you know, most of the time the wind pattern down here is from W/SW to E/NE.
Our legislators got their stupid from Mississippi wind.
We inadvertently passed it on to you.
I have no explanation for Florida tho.....
3waygeek
(2,034 posts)5. Well, since he's had sex with all three...
I suppose he may have some basis for comparison.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)6. I think General Sherman didn't go far enough.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)7. History might have been different if the Confederate traitors
had been executed. "Conservatives" continue to commit treason today, and no one ever holds them to account.
Smilo
(1,944 posts)8. He needs to go back to the farm - they are short of a stud in the douche barn n/t