How extreme have Republican Party members become? For Switzerland’s News, columnist Patrik Etschmayer writes that the ongoing Republican narrative about women, contraception and abortion sounds a lot like the way farmers talk about their livestock.
For the News, Patrik Etschmayer writes in small part:
A bill that was debated in the Georgia Assembly is called HB 954, and its purpose is to prohibit women from having an abortion after the 20th week of pregnancy – even if the fetus would be stillborn or if for some other reason, it must be concluded that the baby wouldn’t survive the pregnancy.
Georgia Representative Terry England, a Republican, argued for the bill with the following words: “Life gives us many experiences. I’ve had the experience of delivering calves, dead and alive – delivering pigs, dead and alive. It breaks our heart to see those animals not make it.” He then followed that up with nonsense that was even more incredible.
OK. Now the reasons for the conservative Republican war against women and their fanatical fight for unborn life (because life after birth is really of no interest, unless it joins the military or becomes pregnant) are clear: conservative Republicans see women as domestic animals.
The intention to force women to carry stillbirths to term – even if their lives are endangered – is at a level of perversity and inhumanity that is usually attributed to countries that follow Sharia law.
It cannot be a coincidence that these are hot-button issues in the former slave-holding, segregated states of the south, where hatred of the alien, outside world, is disguised behind a repulsive facade of piety.
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