GOP senator: I can lecture women on pregnancy because abortion is a ‘men’s issue’

[ashling]

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/gop-senator-i-can-lecture-women-on-pregnancy-because-abortion-is-a-mens-issue/

publican Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma argued on Monday that he had the right to lecture women about whether or not they should get abortions because he had impregnated his wife and “had something to do with the birth.”

During a debate on the Senate floor about whether or not to defund Planned Parenthood, Lankford argued that the “culture has been wrong” to allow abortion.

Lankford said that it was “entirely reasonable” to take Planned Parenthood’s funding and “commit it to organizations who do full women’s health.”

[3catwoman3]

1. Well, isn't he a...

...self-righteous little pr!ck. His wife's pregnancy is the only one he has any right to even think about. Butt out of everyone else's.

[DinahMoeHum]

2. "If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament"

- Florynce Rae "Flo" Kennedy, black feminist and lawyer.

[Kelvin Mace]

7. If men could get pregnant

RU-486 would be sold in gum ball machines.

[3catwoman3]

10. Damn right...

...on both of the above comments.

[Faux pas]

3. Clueless

heartless and f-ed up in the head like the rest of his colleagues.

[hamsterjill]

4. And when science evolves to where he can carry the baby to term, labor and deliver,

Then the SOB will be right. Until then, he is not qualified to judge.

[spanone]

5. an honest mr lankford would admit that they would defund PP and not do one fucking thing for women.

[HughBeaumont]

6. Hey, Draco Weasley . . . NO, you CAN'T.

[Kelvin Mace]

9. Ummm...

Draco "Malfoy", not "Weasley". The Weasley's were the good guys (except Percy, and then only for a while).



You are correct though, he looks a bit like Draco Malfoy.

[HughBeaumont]

12. Looks like a combination of the two . . . ..

[world wide wally]

8. Dogs can make other dogs pregnant too.

You got elected as a Republican in a heavily gerrymandered distrct.
Have you actually ever done anything besides bossing your wife around?

[HeiressofBickworth]

11. I should be shocked

but I'm not. It's another RWNJ attacking the rights of women. He apparently doesn't want his wife, or any other woman, to have an abortion or reproductive services or cancer screening. For some women, Planned Parenthood's services are the extent of the health care they can afford and HE wants to take it away.

Oh, another point, just because he impregnated his wife doesn't make abortion a "men's issue" -- his arrogance is superceded only by his ignorance.