Missouri GOPer Compares Abortion To Buying A Car, Picking Carpeting

[DonViejo]

CATHERINE THOMPSON – APRIL 9, 2014, 3:28 PM EDT

A Republican lawmaker in Missouri who is sponsoring a bill that would mandate women seeking an abortion undergo an ultrasound and wait three days for the procedure defended his measure Tuesday, suggesting a woman getting an abortion should treat it with the same deliberation as shopping for cars or carpeting.

State Rep. Chuck Gatschenberger (R) explained to his colleagues on the Missouri House's Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities committee that when he goes to buy a new vehicle, he doesn't just make a snap decision.

"I have to look at it, get information about it, maybe drive it, you know, a lot of different things. Check prices," he said, according to video recorded by Progress Missouri. "There's lots of things that I do putting into a decision. Whether that's a car, whether that's a house, whether that's any major decision that I put in my life. Even carpeting."

"I was faced with a decision that I didn't have very much information that I knew about," he added. "So I wanted to be as informed as possible, and that's what this bill is. Giving them as much information as possible."

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[sinkingfeeling]

1. That's because us dumb women never give having a baby or an abortion any

thought at all. How many months during Chuckie's life has he ever thought about the possibility that he might be pregnant? In my day, it was like every month from the time I was 17 until I turned like 50.

[Warpy]

2. Is there anything more useless than an ignorant, antiabortion man?

If so, I've certainly never found it.

Yeah, getting an abortion is just like buying a car. So is having your gallbladder removed or your appendix taken out. All three are lifesaving operations and that makes them just like buying a car. Uh huh, keep talking, Slick, and you'll wake more women up to the fact that you need to be on the unemployment line.

[immoderate]

3. So can we expect legislation that governs car purchasing?

--imm

[Wounded Bear]

4. Which, of course, implies that she didn't actually "think things through"...

Yeah, right.

[CTyankee]

5. Keep it up, pukes! Let's put this one up on ads in the fall showing just who these creeps are...

the more women who see this, the better...let's get it in an ad...

[sakabatou]

6. Ugh...

[kimbutgar]

7. How is it a male knows how a females thinks about an unexpected pregnancy?

If men could get pregnant abortion would be available without any restrictions.

Another Neanderthal who is clueless about women and the consequences of an unexpected pregnancy. Makes me want to smack him on his head and tell him to STFU.