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A Democratic state lawmaker in Tennessee grilled a Republican man who claimed to remember his own birth during a hearing on legislation to ban abortions in the state once a fetuss heartbeat is detectable.
The footage was captured during a hearing held by the states General Assembly earlier this week, in which backers and opponents to the legislation were able to discuss their positions on the bill with state senators.
During the hearing, Hal Rounds, who was identified by a local Fox affiliate as a local Tea Party leader, told lawmakers that he had a conceptual memory of being born.
I have a conceptual memory of being born. That sounds ridiculous. I didnt come out of the womb and say, Oh my God, theres a fluorescent light and it was made by Slovenia. No, he continued.
In the womb, there was a sensation of compression and advancement against one side and another this sudden urgent pressure to burst out, and when I had this dream repeatedly through my youth and one day I said, You know, thats kind of like being born' and the dream stopped, alright?
I believe that the consciousness of the child is begun in the womb and when you kill a child, you are killing a person who is not just aware of nothing but of being a person, he continued.
Sen. Katrina Robinson (D) asked Rounds after his remarks about a certain point he tried to make.
You just said that life, Im sorry, heart functioning and brain functioning is life? she asked.
After Rounds answered yes, Robinson went on to ask him at what point in the womb does a fetus develop a fully functioning brain and heart.
Rounds said he didnt have a timeline for that but added that he knows it is "way before what is considered viability by the Supreme Court."
Its the end of the second trimester, she said.
The hearts beating way before that, he said.
Its the end of the second trimester, sir. Im a nurse, what are you? she said in the now-viral moment.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/457836-tennessee-lawmaker-grills-republican-who-claimed-to-remember-being-born?__twitter_impression=true
RockRaven
(14,974 posts)and that is being unnecessarily generous.
Grokenstein
(5,725 posts)...You know, those rare occasions when he pulled his head out of his ass.
a local Tea Party leader
Well, that certainly explains a lot.
canetoad
(17,169 posts)I don't discount them completely. I have memories of places during my first year of life that my aunt has confirmed.
Either way, this has absolutely nothing to do with abortion. Nothing.
genxlib
(5,528 posts)Tells me everything I need to know about this BS.
malaise
(269,063 posts)An uninformed asshole