Could Some One Give Republicans A Brain? A Heart Might Be Useful Too

House Republicans are working hard to lose the next election.

An all-male panel of House lawmakers considered a bill on Thursday that would ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy across the United States, without exceptions for rape, incest or health of the mother.

There was some testimony given.

At 21 weeks, Zink’s doctors discovered that her fetus had no brain function. That type of fetal abnormality was impossible to detect earlier in her pregnancy. “If this bill had been passed before my pregnancy, I would have had to carry to term and give birth to a baby whom the doctors concurred had no chance of a life and would have experienced near-constant pain,” Zink explained. “If he had survived the pregnancy — which was not certain — he might never have left the hospital. My daughter’s life, too, would have been irrevocably hurt by an almost always-absent parent.”

House Republican Louie Gohmert had this response:

GOHMERT: Ms. Zink, having my great sympathy and empathy both. I still come back wondering, shouldn’t we wait, like that couple did, and see if the child can survive before we decide to rip him apart? So. These are ethical issues, they’re moral issues, they’re difficult issues, and the parents should certainly be consulted. But it just seems like, it’s a more educated decision if the child is in front of you to make those decisions.

Medical decisions are complicated. Can a blanket rule fit all situations? Republicans seem to think so. Women, who are 51% of the electorate, tend to vote for Democrats. Will these efforts by Republicans to get involved in the medical decisions of women and their doctors get more or fewer votes for Republicans? I’d bet on fewer.


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8 responses to “Could Some One Give Republicans A Brain? A Heart Might Be Useful Too”

  1. Kathy Kinsley Avatar
    Kathy Kinsley

    “I’d bet on fewer.”
    So would I. And they deserve every vote they lose.

    As I’ve mentioned before, I’m an adoptee – a bastard. And pro choice. Live with it.

  2. Frank Avatar
    Frank

    …no chance of a life and would have experienced near-constant pain,

    That is what I can’t understand about the extreme pro-choice people, how they can justify bringing such a pregnancy full term. Rick Santorum and his wife did it with their little girl, and tried to with a boy who mercifully died shortly after birth.

  3. Simon Avatar

    Frank,

    The decisions should be individual.

  4. tkdkerry Avatar
    tkdkerry

    “Can a blanket rule fit all situations? Republicans seem to think so.”

    Yes, in this case they do, and they’re wrong. But it seems the Dems want to apply that to everything. I’ll take the Repubs any day, as I think we have a better chance of fending off their lesser version of statism.

  5. Frank Avatar
    Frank

    M.Simon, of course the decisions should be individual. Then why do the Santorums of the Republican Party insist on taking that freedom away from others who have a different view?

  6. Simon Avatar

    Frank, tkdkerry,

    The two parties are in cahoots when it comes to being anti-liberty.

  7. Kathy Kinsley Avatar
    Kathy Kinsley

    @frank

    Indeed they are, and I’m with the Dems on this one. (Yeah, that’s why I’m registered Independent.)

  8. Will Avatar
    Will

    I say “you can’t really trust anyone’s numbers” but this is how the current claims crunch down. Somewhere between 18 and 24 thousand ‘late'(20th week or after) abortions are performed each year . Of those, 720 to 960 involve health risks to the mother,or genetic, or fetal abnormalities.

    I suspect in another decade or two the left’s pragmatic “national health experts” will want some of the defective cases to be carried as closed as possible to term for harvesting of parts.