Science-Challenged Alabama Republican Explains Reproduction
Posted: February 19, 2013 Filed under: open thread, U.S. Politics, War on Women, Women's Healthcare, Women's Rights | Tags: Alabama House of Representatives, anti-abortion legislation, Mary Sue McClurkin 18 Comments
Alabama State Rep. Mary Sue McClurkin
WARNING: Please don’t drink any liquids before reading this post.
Via Jezebel, the Montgomery Advertiser is reporting that the Alabama House of Representatives is scheduled to
take up abortion legislation Tuesday that supporters claim will protect patients in clinics and opponents claim will close down abortion providers.
The legislation, sponsored by Rep. Mary Sue McClurkin, R-Pelham, would require physicians at abortion clinics to have admitting privileges at local hospitals; require clinics to follow ambulatory clinic building codes and make it a felony — punishable by up to 10 years in prison — for a nurse, nurse practitioner or physician’s assistant to dispense abortion-inducing medications.
You can read the text of the bill here. According to McClurkin the reasoning behind enforcing strict regulations on abortion is that the fetus is a large “organ.”
“When a physician removes a child from a woman, that is the largest organ in a body,” McClurkin said in an interview Thursday. “That’s a big thing. That’s a big surgery. You don’t have any other organs in your body that are bigger than that.”
Funny how when you have other organs removed–like say your appendix–they don’t stay around expecting you to feed and clothe them and pay for their educations. Katie J.M. Baker of Jezebel writes:
My liver, heart, and skin are all very excited that we are now giving organs personhood rights, although the latter is slightly upset about losing out on its “largest organ in the human body” rep.
Of course the sponsors of this and other such anti-abortion legislation claim that they’re just trying to make the procedure safer for women–never mind the fact that abortion is one of the safest medical procedures available. But it’s difficult to see how this part of the bill would accomplish that goal:
McClurkin’s bill includes a provision that requires physicians to ask patients younger than the age of 16, the name and age of the father of the child, and to report to law enforcement if the father is two years older than the minor.
If the patient is younger than 14, the clinic would be required to report the incident to the Department of Human Resources.
But then safety isn’t really the point, is it? The point is to eliminate abortions or at least make them as difficult as possible to obtain. That will lead to women seeking out dangerous illegal abortions or resorting to do-it-yourself measures.
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Do any Republicans study biology? Is this the result of home-schooling?
I’m speechless……..fuck a duck.
Is it as bad as the link you put up about Missouri on the last thread? These people are beyond belief.
Remember when being that stupid would end one’s political career?
If Dan Quayle misspelled potato today, he’d probably be cheered by the GOP for not being an elitist intellectual.
Ah, this latest crap from the mouths of PLUBs is in line with what Arizona is pushing for:
In New Push for “Personhood,” Arizona Anti-Choicers Push Bill to Track Every Embryo – RH Reality Check
Gotta put a tracking device on those big organs!
That’s creepy. I guess they want to eliminate in vitro fertilization now? Or maybe they want to jail doctors/women who abort some of the embryos after one implants?
BTW, here is the second part of the Newtown article:
A Deeper Divide: The Gun Control Debate After Newtown – Courant.com
Wow.
After I read that article, I thought WTF? Nothing ever changes.
We have the freedumb to be complete fools. Hoorah.
As the mother of a child with a genetic birth defect, I know how many people in this country have no idea about pregnancy, child birth etc. I have so many people who think that the only way you can get a child with birth defects is if you have tried to get an abortion and it failed to ‘take’. They also seem to believe that there is a window in the uterus so you could see that the child was going to be handicapped.(this was before ultrasound) And an awful lot of so-called christians believe these children should be put somewhere they are never seen. We need REAL sex education in schools. As in, how babies grow in the womb.
Good grief! That’s unbelievable.
Okay … it can keep getting worse …
Rep. Joe Heck agrees with local radio host: Gabbby Giffords is a “prop” …” who can’t even clap her hands” http://bit.ly/Xtbp9w
North Dakota Senate passes “personhood” bill granting legal rights to fertilized eggs http://www.salon.com/2013/02/19/north_dakota_senate_passes_personhood_bill_granting_legal_rights_to_fertilized_eggs/ … /craaaazy
An Oklahoma bill would protect schools, teachers & students who push faith-based “theories” over scientific ones: http://bit.ly/Vt6plT
I read that this morning. Bizarro!
BB I’m almost glad this time it’s a woman who is the total doofus for a change.