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State Senator Looks At Topless Pics During Abortion Debate
http://jezebel.com/5530724/state-senator-looks-at-topless-pics-during-abortion-debate-updatedFlorida State Senator Mike Bennett is anti-abortion. And yet, during a floor debate on a bill requiring abortion seekers to pay for an ultrasound, the cameras caught him looking at topless pics on his laptop.
Debate over the bill — which has no exceptions for rape, incest, or endangerment of a woman's life — has been heated, but it failed to hold Bennett's attention. Just as Senator Dan Gelber, a Democrat, was saying, "I'm against this bill, because it disrespects too many women in the state of Florida," Sunshine State News service's cameras caught Sen. Bennett looking at a photo of topless girls, and then watching a video of a dog shaking itself dry. Per the same source:...
As hypocrisy gotchas go, this is a good one. But it's actually significantly more disturbing, if unsurprising, how little interest Bennett took in a crucial bill in which presumably he'd vote the party line. (Update: To be fair, we should note that while he is usually a reliable anti-choice vote, Bennett opposes pre-abortion ultrasound requirements — but his web-browsing preferences are what they are.)
Then again, perhaps he thinks the only choice a woman should exert over her body is taking off her bikini top.
Debate over the bill — which has no exceptions for rape, incest, or endangerment of a woman's life — has been heated, but it failed to hold Bennett's attention. Just as Senator Dan Gelber, a Democrat, was saying, "I'm against this bill, because it disrespects too many women in the state of Florida," Sunshine State News service's cameras caught Sen. Bennett looking at a photo of topless girls, and then watching a video of a dog shaking itself dry. Per the same source:...
As hypocrisy gotchas go, this is a good one. But it's actually significantly more disturbing, if unsurprising, how little interest Bennett took in a crucial bill in which presumably he'd vote the party line. (Update: To be fair, we should note that while he is usually a reliable anti-choice vote, Bennett opposes pre-abortion ultrasound requirements — but his web-browsing preferences are what they are.)
Then again, perhaps he thinks the only choice a woman should exert over her body is taking off her bikini top.
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