Monday, June 24, 2013

The Republican War on Women: Lone Star State Edition

Today, we have an all-Texas edition of the on-going drama, "The Republican War on Women":
Republicans in the Texas House of Representatives voted in the wee hours of Monday morning to cut off a marathon 15-hour debate over a bill that would close nearly all the state’s abortion clinics and ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, overwhelmingly approving the highly contentious measure after Democrats pulled out all the stops to gum up the process.
During the debate on the bill,  Democrats wanted to offer an exception in the case of rape or incest to the 20-week ban.  That was when lady Republican/ Stupid Party State Rep. Jodie Laubenberg "broke the glass stupid ceiling" (h/t Wonkette) by wanting everyone to know that rape exception wasn't necessary 'cause
If a woman is raped… We have hospital emergency rooms... We have funded what’s called rape kits that will help the woman, basically clean her out. And then hopefully that will alleviate that.
That's right, lady!  A kit that's used to collect evidence of a rape will "alleviate" a potential pregnancy resulting from rape!  Also:  "Hopefully!"  She got that straight from Dr. Todd Akin (or was it Dr. Richard Mourdock?)!  Then again, maybe it was "Law and Order:  SUV."

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