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unhappycamper

(60,364 posts)
Sat May 25, 2013, 07:08 AM May 2013

Ahhh Louie

Teh stupid just keeps on rolling out of his pie hole.




Gohmert: Force women to give birth to fetuses with ‘no brain activity’
By David Edwards
Friday, May 24, 2013 11:19 EDT

Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert (R) on Thursday told a woman that she wrong to have an abortion after it was discovered late during her pregnancy that her fetus had no brain function.

At a House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice hearing to push for a 20-week abortion ban, Christy Zink testified that the bill would have required her “to carry to term and give birth to a baby whom the doctors concurred had no chance of a life and would have experienced near-constant pain.”

“Being there in a neonatal ICU, I did see that there was one child there that was missing parts including a spine,” Gohmert said, recalling the birth of his daughter. “And the parents ended up, when it was clear that there was no brain activity whatsoever, there was decisions that they had to make at that point.”

“Ms. Zink, having my great sympathy and empathy both, I still come back wondering, shouldn’t we wait, like that couple did, and see if the child can survive before we decide to rip him apart?” he asked. “So, these are ethical issues, they’re moral issues, they’re difficult issues, and the parents should certainly be consulted.”


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Ahhh Louie (Original Post) unhappycamper May 2013 OP
"and the parents should certainly be consulted.” djean111 May 2013 #1
Louie's thinking back to when his parents had to decide. Scuba May 2013 #2
. Cooley Hurd May 2013 #4
Louie once again shooting his mouth off about something he knows nothing about hobbit709 May 2013 #3
It's personal for Gohmert Pyle! backscatter712 May 2013 #5

hobbit709

(41,694 posts)
3. Louie once again shooting his mouth off about something he knows nothing about
Sat May 25, 2013, 07:23 AM
May 2013

and is physically disqualified from ever knowing.

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