"Pro-life" legislator likens women to cows

[donsu]

http://mediagirl.org/node/1037



Just a couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how South Dakota is treating women like cows. Now that judgment has been confirmed ... by South Dakota's own "pro-life" Republican Representative Gordon Howie himself:

When Rep. Gordon Howie, R-Rapid City, mentioned cows and women in the same breaths at the Chamber of Commerce pre-legislative crackerbarrel last week, it didn't sit well with some of the folks who were there.

Because someone in front of me was chattering during questions from the audience, I wasn't able to catch Howie's precise quote (or what exactly was being said on another subject by Rep. Tom Hennies before it). But right after Howie spoke, the firestorm started.

I checked with the Chamber to see if the session was recorded, since I only half-heard Howie's comment myself and wanted to make sure I'd get it right. When I was told by the Chamber that they hadn't taped it, I asked Howie to repeat what he said.

"We place value on life in South Dakota, and even with a mother cow, as soon as you can demonstrate she is pregnant, an even higher value is placed just because she is pregnant," Howie said.

So there you have it: a woman's value depends upon whether she's pregnant or not. A woman's purpose, according to Howie and his right-wing allies who want to criminalize abortion, is to replenish the herd.

But wait! Maybe he ended up not saying what he really meant. Maybe it was a mistake.

Howie said he "enrages" people who don't share his views "because I just don't mince words. I don't choose them well, either. ... Any person who really knows who I am knows I don't place women and livestock on the same level."

No, he says it like he means it. I'm sure he believes women are more valuable than cows. But his meaning comes through loud and clear: Women are heifers and the government is the rancher.

Moo.
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looks like this is Howie's last term in office

(makes me think of that company that makes kitchen stools, chairs, etc. painted like cows)

[Doctor_J]

1. GOP thinks women and cows are the same?

The Ann Coulter fascincation finally makes sense.

[DBoon]

2. Does Howie eat veal?

and if so, what does this say about how he treats children?

[opihimoimoi]

3. The Pubs use small divisive shit to divide us..they see the world in tiny

tibbets...micro views....absent are the Macro views...hence they are incongruent in many aspects...and counter productive as well.

[shenmue]

4. What a jackass

Stone-age bastard...

[Warpy]

5. Howie's mom was negligent

and should have spent more of his childhood teaching him that female human beings are not breeding stock, witless and dependent. Failing that, she should have smothered him in his crib when his personality started to manifest itself.

What a disgusting waste of protoplasm.

[gulliver]

6. Kind of adorably backward, though.

I'm glad guys like this are on their side. Combining women and cows is almost always an unwise metaphorical choice, regardless of where you intend to go with it. I think he is probably ready to put out to pasture.

[DBoon]

12. He should be put to pasture

he has proven that he is a lot of bull

[Sarah Ibarruri]

7. What an ass nt

[Spinzonner]

8. I think you're taking his comments the wrong way

He's just demonstrating his support of the theory of evolution. After all, the biological, evolutionary role of mammalian females is to carry deveoping fetuses.

:sarcasm:

[meow2u3]

9. Do you put your wife out to pasture when she gets too old?

or do you trade her in for a younger model? :grr:

[DBoon]

11. well, many republican politicians do just that

so I suppose they are simply being consistent.

[Nutmegger]

10. SCUM!!!

Enough said, these people are just scummy. :puke:

[LiberalFighter]

13. Fertility Farming (Cows)

Fertility Farming

Nature has good purpose in all her processes, and the process of abortion is one of them. The bacteria which the scientist isolates and blames for causing the condition, merely arises out of the condition as an essential part of the curative process. As explained in my introduction to the subject of disease, the bacteria are entirely benevolent and engaged in the work of consuming the toxic accumulations and assisting their discharge from the body. The act of abortion, or expulsion of the foetus, is a part of the natural elimination of toxins from the overloaded system, and as such is altogether beneficial to the ultimate health of the animal. The loss of the calf, or foal, or lamb, or kid, should not be regarded as a disaster, but as a life-saver for the dam, which at best would otherwise become permanently sterile and incapable of further useful existence on the farm. As it is, with orthodox treatment she will probably become at least temporarily sterile, and if the bad feeding which caused the toxaemia continues, permanent sterility, or other serious toxic condition, is almost certain.

[donsu]

14. sigh

nt

[Acryliccalico]

15. Disgusting SCUM bag, PILE OF DOO!!!

:kick:

[yellowcanine]

16. Any person who really knows who I am knows I don't place women and

and livestock on the same level."

Then maybe you better STFU so those of us who don't know you don't get the "wrong" idea. Do YOU know who you are, Howie?

[jrd200x]

17. Pregnant cows worth more because of milk/meat they produce

that can be sold.

Is this why woman are worth more pregnant? I hope he didn't mean that.

Funny, he says the women are worth more, but wants to take away they're rights.