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."
