GOP lawmaker: Fetuses are ‘the most persecuted minority in the worl

[Playinghardball]

Source: RawReplay
By David Edwards

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) pleaded with lawmakers Wednesday to support his anti-abortion legislation.

“Someday I truly believe future generations of Americans will look back on us, especially policymakers, and wonder how and why such a rich and seemingly enlightened society, so blessed and endowed with the capacity to protect vulnerable human life could have insisted and instead aggressively promoted death to children and the exploitation of their moms,” he said in a speech on the House floor.

“They will note with deep sadness, some of our politicians, while they talked about human rights, never lifted a finger to protect the most persecuted minority in the world: the child in the womb.”

“Back and vote for H.R. 3, ‘The No Taxpayer Money for Abortion Act,’” he concluded.

Watch this video from C-SPAN, broadcast May 4, 2011

http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/05/gop-lawmaker-fetuses-are-the-most-persecuted-minority-in-the-world/

[sakabatou]

1. Meanwhile, back in Uganda...

[valerief]

2. Every sperm is sacred. nt

[Enrique]

3. someday there will be a Martin Luther King of the fetuses n/t

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Until they are born, of course.

Then the GOPers don't give a damn. No medical care, no Head Start, no welfare, no nothing, because it's against the GOP's fuck-you ideology to help the children of the "undeserving" poor.

[Vehl]

5. +1 nt

[Patiod]

11. +100

[fishwax]

15. indeed n/t

[Canuckistanian]

6. Maybe they can start a support group

Call it "Fetuses for Change" or something.

[Blue Owl]

7. What a deluded, bonafide idiot

I mean, listen to the nonsense this fraud is spewing -- it's so mind-bogglingly stupid...

[FormerDittoHead]

8. Maybe labor should stop supporting him.

http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cycle=2008&cid=N00009816

[skepticscott]

9. And "God" is the biggest persecutor

of fetuses in the known universe.

[Old and In the Way]

16. He is the #1 abortion provider, by far.

But spontaneous abortions will now become a chargeable offense - accidental manslaughter, I guess. And Republicans will need to install webcams in every bedroom so they can protect the constitutional rights of blasto-Americans. And mandatory pregnancy screening for all women of childbearing age. Got to have an even application of the law, right?

[PlanetBev]

10. Since when did fetuses become a minority?

They're produced all over the planet, every hour, every day.

What an idiot...

[luvspeas]

12. When he has to carry one and deal with it, I'll listen to what he has to say...

otherwise, stfu.

[TriMera]

13. +1. n/t

[Old and In the Way]

14. Gonna need a bigger government and more prisons to handle all of the new criminals.

Which is a lot of Americans. Remember, in Republican world a blastocyst - this: . - has more rights than the woman who is carrying it.

Meanwhile, as Republicans wage a cultural war in this country....still no jobs.