(WTF?) Texas Republican finds cure for rape!

[Playinghardball]

Move over, Todd Akin, because believe it or not, someone has actually surpassed his "legitimate rape" idiocy. Meet Texas Republican (of course) Rep. Jodie Laubenberg, who had this to say while denying an exception for rape in the draconian abortion bill Texas Republicans (of course) are in the process of jamming through the legislative process:

In the emergency room, they have what's called rape kits, where a woman can get cleaned out.

Well, sure, a rape kit is practically a restore-your-virginity card. It's like a day at the spa ... assuming your spa experience includes a vaginal and anal swab and a pubic combing. What rape victim would ever need an abortion after enjoying a few cleansing hours of that?

And soon after Laubenberg's remarks, the Republican majority—many who "had flyers on their desks that read "Psalm 139:13-14," which reads in part, "You covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made"—cut off debate and approved the bill. (The final vote is expected later today and it will then go to the state senate.)

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/24/1218347/-Texas-Republican-finds-cure-for-rape

[Warpy]

1. If you think the present crop of men in Congress is wildly ignorant

wait until the ones given "abstinence education" come of age and get in!

This horseshit is why we desperately need comprehensive, factual sex education classes in the schools. Parents are too bashful to do the job and preachers are too ignorant. These bozos listened to their equally ignorant peers when they were teenagers and haven't listened to anyone else since.

[Thinkingabout]

2. Republican office holders is the gift that keeps on giving.

[Just Saying]

3. What's sad is these ignorant people

Are passing laws that effect women's lives and health.

It's sickening that this woman is making important decisions when she doesn't even know what a rape kit actually does.

[HappyMe]

4. Rape kits are for the collection of evidence.

Nothing more, nothing less.

[Lindsay]

7. You know that. I know that.

There may not be a Republican alive who knows that.

[HappyMe]

11. You would think that somebody

would have stepped up with testimony from ER workers who actually use the rape kits, maybe the manufacturer too.

[Buzz Clik]

5. I suppose this could be funny. I just can't get the needle to move off "tragic"

These bastards are in charge.

[russspeakeasy]

10. Well said.

[TDale313]

6. Truly disgusting.

Heartless and totally ignorant. These Republican male politicians need to seriously stfu about rape. Now.

[HappyMe]

8. Here's a Republican woman --

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023080871

[TDale313]

13. ...

[sinkingfeeling]

9. Would somebody tell me how the hell completely ignorant people get

elected to make laws?

[Skittles]

16. very, very ignorant people vote for them

[Berlum]

12. The republiCON War on Women (and children) continues

[Tikki]

14. OK If I was a rape victim in texas I would demand 'cleaning out' (d&c) as determined by an...

actual doctor and none of this, can't do that, because life starts at conception because commandant jodie says that is what's what.


Tikki

[Wait Wut]

15. Good grief...she's a woman.

I can't really say I 'understand' when men make stupid remarks about how reproduction works, but I'm going to have to assume that the majority of women know about their bodies more than the average male.

She's an idiot.

Oh, and I'm sorry, but that Psalm is just creepy, "...I am fearfully and wonderfully made." Fearfully???? WTF?