That's what women are according to Republican Rep. Terry England.
You see, we're livestock, not people. As women, we're only fit for breeding in grunting out a few Christian babies and bleating our happiness as we affix our babies to our tits in between each pregnancy. God forbid if they're minorities, mixed children, or of different religions.
State Rep. Terry England can be seen on video here, waxing rhapsodically about the need to pass the bill currently in the Georgia legislature which would ban abortions after 20 weeks, especially those requiring medical interventions to remove dead fetal tissue from women's bodies. He thinks that pregnant women should be forced to carry their dead babies to term, never mind the fact that these dead babies can't grow anymore, and that their tissue can turn septic, thus presenting a dangerous health issue to the mother. He compared pregnant women seeking abortions of their dead fetuses to cows and pigs delivering stillborn pregnancies in the video.
Eagle-eyed videographer Bryan Long caught England's speech in support of his position, during which he shared in a hushed, reverent tone, a tale of how hard it is for farmers to have to deliver dead baby pigs, but that the animals do it, because that's how God and the Accelerated Genetics intended. Further, he told a touching story of one young man who loved cockfighting and agreed to give all his fighting cocks away if only the Georgia legislation would make it illegal for pregnant women to decide what to do with their bodies. Oh, good sirs, won't you think of the chickens?!
Pardon my French but qu'est-ce que fuck? Georgia women are like cows and pigs and chickens? Stillbirth is hard but it should be enforced by the state? And chicken rights are more important than women's rights?
Every time a Republican makes a pronouncement of their support against women's right to their own bodies, and inserting government between them and their doctors, I read about more and more women moving away from the Republican party and to the Democratic Party.
His comments likening pregnant women to livestock are unacceptable, and so is his support of HR 954, the bill that would force pregnant women to carry out their stillborn babies to term, putting their lives at great risk.
Please Go To State Rep. Terry England's Facebook Page And Let Him Know What You Think About His Disgusting Views About Pregnant Women
State Rep. Terry England
has run unopposed in every election since 2008. His term will end on January 14, 2013.
For the love of God, won't the Georgia Democratic Party put a candidate up to get this misogynistic asshole out of office?
We're so much more than the sum of our parts, but men like England want to keep reducing us to the sum of our parts because they don't think we're human. They don't think we're capable of making choices. They don't think we deserve full human rights and are capable of leading happy, independent lives.
They think we're only fit for cleaning up after men and birthing babies. In their world, we might as well give up our education, jobs, cars, second income (that keeps many families afloat in this economy), and stay home pregnant and barefoot in the kitchen tending to our menfolk and babies.
That's all we're good for according to them. We're not human. We're livestock like the cows and pigs they keep in gestation cages, only we'd be stuck in our homes instead. That's not the kind of life I and millions of women want. That's precisely why in 2012, even in spite of all the voter intimidation that the GOP will be pulling against millions of voters, many women will be pulling the D lever.
Keep it up, GOP, because we want you out of power. We want millions of women to know the kind of hatred you have for them. We want them to know how you detest the idea of that little girl next door growing up to be a successful, educated woman with a college degree and with access to contraception so she's not barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen.
We want every voter to know that you don't value women. We hold up half of the sky, and so do Republican women in your own party. You denigrate all women, you also denigrate women in your own party. You make a mockery of their pregnancies, their life and death situations, and their own body autonomy. You keep it up, you'll find that you won't have as many female voters in your party anymore.
And you'll lose elections after elections with your misogynistic hatred of women out on display. You fully deserve every election loss.
Because you're an asshole, and we don't like assholes.