Wait – What just happened? A roundup of the week in news, June 23, 2013
In a week with so much facepalming, how does one choose the best of the best?
By looking the GOP’s way of course!
By now, you’ve probably heard that the Republican dominated House of Representatives passed the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, banning abortions after 20 weeks, again hacking away at Roe v Wade which holds that states can ban abortions after a fetus is capable of surviving outside of the womb, a point that varies but was defined by the Supreme Court in 1992 as being at “23 to 24 weeks.”
But is that really enough? Not for Representative Michael Burgess (R-TX) who, himself, claims to have seen male fetuses begin masturbating in the womb around 15 weeks into a pregnancy.
Burgess is an expert on intra-uterine masturbation because, scarily enough, this man used to be an OB/GYN and is also a leading member of a House subcommittee focused on public health and biomedical issues. According to Burgess, it’s because “they stroke their face. If they’re a male baby, they may have their hand between their legs. If they feel pleasure, why is it so hard to think that they could feel pain?"
Need to see it to believe it? Watch his testimony here.
While we’re on the topic of the unborn spanking their monkeys, why not move on to adults “Spanking for Jesus”
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