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Move over, Todd Akin, because believe it or not, someone has actually surpassed his "legitimate rape" idiocy. Meet Texas Republican (of course) Rep. Jodie Laubenberg, who had this to say while denying an exception for rape in the draconian abortion bill Texas Republicans (of course) are in the process of jamming through the legislative process:
In the emergency room, they have what's called rape kits, where a woman can get cleaned out.
Well, sure, a rape kit is practically a restore-your-virginity card. It's like a day at the spa ... assuming your spa experience includes a vaginal and anal swab and a pubic combing. What rape victim would ever need an abortion after enjoying a few cleansing hours of that?
And soon after Laubenberg's remarks, the Republican majoritymany who "had flyers on their desks that read "Psalm 139:13-14," which reads in part, "You covered me in my mothers womb. I will praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made"cut off debate and approved the bill. (The final vote is expected later today and it will then go to the state senate.)
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/24/1218347/-Texas-Republican-finds-cure-for-rape
Warpy
(112,824 posts)wait until the ones given "abstinence education" come of age and get in!
This horseshit is why we desperately need comprehensive, factual sex education classes in the schools. Parents are too bashful to do the job and preachers are too ignorant. These bozos listened to their equally ignorant peers when they were teenagers and haven't listened to anyone else since.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Just Saying
(1,799 posts)Are passing laws that effect women's lives and health.
It's sickening that this woman is making important decisions when she doesn't even know what a rape kit actually does.
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)Nothing more, nothing less.
Lindsay
(3,276 posts)There may not be a Republican alive who knows that.
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)would have stepped up with testimony from ER workers who actually use the rape kits, maybe the manufacturer too.
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)These bastards are in charge.
russspeakeasy
(6,539 posts)TDale313
(7,820 posts)Heartless and totally ignorant. These Republican male politicians need to seriously stfu about rape. Now.
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)sinkingfeeling
(52,694 posts)elected to make laws?
Skittles
(157,099 posts)Berlum
(7,044 posts)Tikki
(14,708 posts)actual doctor and none of this, can't do that, because life starts at conception because commandant jodie says that is what's what.
Tikki
Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)I can't really say I 'understand' when men make stupid remarks about how reproduction works, but I'm going to have to assume that the majority of women know about their bodies more than the average male.
She's an idiot.
Oh, and I'm sorry, but that Psalm is just creepy, "...I am fearfully and wonderfully made." Fearfully???? WTF?