Porter Schedules Fetus To Testify in Favor of Heartbeat Bill

[meegbear]

When Janet Porter is involved in something, you know it is just a matter of time before it goes completely off the rails.

It happened with her 2007 Values Voter Debate where a choir sang "Why Should God Bless America?" while Religious Right leaders asked questions to empty podiums representing the Republican candidates who skipped the event.

And it happened again with her May Day prayer rally at the Lincoln Memorial which left her facing $70,000 in expenses and cost her her daily radio show.

And so it was only a matter of time before her already bizarre "Heartbeat Bill" activism in Ohio took a turn toward the surreal, with Porter announcing plans to have a fetus "testify" in favor of the legislation:

A fetus has been scheduled as a legislative witness in Ohio on a unique bill that proposes outlawing abortions after the first heartbeat can be medically detected.

Faith2Action, the anti-abortion group that has targeted Ohio to pilot the measure, called the in-utero witness the youngest to ever come before the House Health Committee at 9 weeks old.

Faith2Action president Janet Folger Porter said the intent is to show lawmakers who will be affected by the bill, which abortion rights groups oppose. Ohio Right to Life has not endorsed the measure.

An aide to committee Chairman Lynn Wachtmann said a pregnant woman will be brought before the committee and an ultrasound image of her uterus will be projected onto a screen. The heartbeat of the fetus will be visible in color.

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http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/porter-schedules-fetus-testify-favor-heartbeat-bill

[CreekDog]

1. as soon as it's born she'll lecture it on "personal responsibility"

:eyes:

[myrna minx]

2. Aww- Look at those teeny preemie bootstraps you can buy from the RNC website.

These people are off of the rails.

[krispos42]

3. Trey Parker and Matt Stone must be facepalming themselves

Anybody else remember this?

[LiberalFighter]

6. Someone should bring it in and show what a fetus could look like.

And then ask are you really sure this thing is human?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

4. What's the name of the fetus?

Is it testifying of it's own free will (or "choice")? Will it have to be sworn in? Just askin' :shrug: I hope that the news crews are there during this because we will be witnessing an amazing miracle of nature having a fetus "testifying" in front of the legislature.


O.k. We are totally through the looking glass now.....................:crazy:

[madmom]

7. I asked on another thread about this..can it be held in contempt for not answering?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

9. oooh! Good question!

This is a complete and total farce- though maybe it might finally put their lunacy on display for everybody to see. Maybe this will be the moment that the anti-abortion movement finally "jumps the shark"? The rest of us can hope, anyway. :shrug:

[krispos42]

8. And I so want to see the original long-form birth certificate n/t

[HopeHoops]

5. And just how the hell do they expect to swear it in?