Liar doctors and whorish women

I'm starting off with an apology to my mom, who thinks I swear too much on this blog. Mom, you might want to stop reading right about... now. Because, cussing ahoy!

Because I feel a need to talk about the fucktard asswipe pieces of shit that made the news today.

All across this country, male legislators are proving their asshattery in legislative efforts and then trying to 'take it back" when everyone around them calls them on their craptastic assholish fuckwadery.

Let's see, where to start today's news... I know! How about with Idaho's Senator Chuck Winder, who is counting on women to be honest if their rape was "truly" a rape.

From The Spokesman: (emphasis mine)

In his closing debate in favor of SB 1387, Sen. Chuck Winder, R-Boise, said, “This bill does not require a trans-vaginal exam. … It leaves that up to the patient and the physician to make that determination.” He said, “Rape and incest was used as a reason to oppose this. I would hope that when a woman goes in to a physician with a rape issue, that physician will indeed ask her about perhaps her marriage, was this pregnancy caused by normal relations in a marriage or was it truly caused by a rape. I assume that's part of the counseling that goes on.”

Winder said, “I believe the state does have an interest in the life of the unborn. That's what the debate's about. Does it add cost? Yes, it does. I would just ask you to consider the pricelessness of the unborn.” He noted the Senate's recent commemoration of military members killed in Iraq and Afghanistan in the past year. “Each person has a life story,” Winder said. “Those were cut short. Let's not choose to cut others short.”

There is so much going on here I almost don't know where to start. OK, yes, maybe I do. A rape issue? Please, I don't think that women who have been raped think they are simply bringing an issue to the attention of their doctor. It's a fucking trauma. An abuse. An act of freaking violence perpetrated against a victim. Not an accuser.

Next. Was the pregnancy truly caused by a rape? Really? Because a woman can't be trusted to tell the truth about it? Fuck you.

And also, comparing a woman's right to autonomy over her body to soldiers dying in war ? What an insult to our fighting men and women. Those who put their lives on the line every day fighting for Senator Winder's right to be an asshole in the comfort of his own home.

And then, once pushback over Winder's horrendous remarks came pouring out, he backtracked (the pussy). Via the AP:

Winder said he was pointing out that a woman would likely want to consult with her physician and perform tests to determine if the child she was carrying was a product of a rape, so as not to allow doctors to abort a consensual conception.

“I used a married woman, the idea being that as a woman or a couple, whether they be married or unmarried at the time, would want to find out if the pregnancy occurred as the product of the rape, or whether the pregnancy was unknown at the time,” Winder told The Associated Press. “There was never any intention on my part to question the honesty of a woman in cases of rape.”

You'll pardon me, Senator Winder, if when you bring up this issue, that I might wonder if this was caused by normal synapses in your brain, or if it was truly an act of idiotic ignorance and insensitivity on your part.

What else happened today? Oh, yes. How could I forget? State Rep Alan Dick, an aptly named fellow, has decided that women should have to produce written agreement from the father before an abortion can be performed. And if she doesn't know who the father is, she has to supply a written list of all her sexual partners (the hooorish slut). I see.

Perhaps she should go visit her rapist to ask if it's ok with him? Or her abusive husband? Come to think of it, why should she have to ask anybody's freaking permission to have a god-damned LEGAL procedure performed on HER OWN body?

And gee, if she's such a slut that she doesn't know who the father is, then we'll just call all her poor unsuspecting boyfriends and make sure they all know what a whore she is.

Via The Mudflats:

[State Rep. Alan Dick] said that he doesn’t believe that when a woman is pregnant, it’s really “her pregnancy.” As a matter of fact, he would advocate for criminalizing women who have an abortion without the permission via written signature from the man who impregnated her. He stated, “If I thought that the man’s signature was required… required, in order for a woman to have an abortion, I’d have a little more peace about it…” He didn’t say whether a rapist would be able to send his signature by fax from prison, or not. But he’ll have “peace” and women will require a permission slip for their own bodies.

I'm so glad he can have some peace. Phew! That was worrying me. Mr. Alan Dick? Meet Rush Limbaugh Dickhead. You can commiserate about all those whores and sluts out there feeding off the welfare state to cut those precious zygotes out of their bodies before they have a chance to become the next Dick.

And as for it not being "her pregnancy"? Mr Dick, when you have to push the equivalent of a watermelon out of a hole the size of your urethra, then we'll talk about whose pregnancy it really is.

And while we're at it, how about requiring men to get a woman to sign his permission slip for his vasectomy? Because he'd be depriving her unknowing self of all those potential zygotes.

Guess what? Do I sound like an angry feminist? I never was. Guess who brought me to this point? Yes, Mr. Dick, that would be you. I've always been a live and let live person. You make that so difficult. Truly.

Last, let's not forget to talk about the Georgia peach who calls physicians liars simply for telling the truth about the scientific research. So sorry that you don't believe in science, and that science has apparently been outlawed in Georgia, along with those folks with brown skin and weird sounding names, and well, being female.

Rep. Doug McKillip is accusing medical witnesses liars for presenting scientific facts to a legislative hearing.

Via The Atlanta Journal Constitution: (emphasis mine)

Under House Bill 954, almost all abortions later than 20 weeks, including those involving rape and incest, would be banned under the premise that after 20 weeks a fetus is capable of feeling pain. Dott and two other obstetricians, also specialists in high-risk pregnancies, told the panel that overwhelming medical evidence has established that a fetus does not develop the capacity to feel pain until the 28th week of gestation. When doctors operate on fetuses younger than 28 weeks, the committee was told, it is standard medical practice not to use anesthetic because the neural connections needed to feel pain simply do not exist.

Yet the sponsor of the bill, state Rep. Doug McKillip, summarily dismissed the threshold of 28 weeks. “Does anybody believe that? Absolutely not,” he told the panel, in effect calling the medical experts liars. “They are just looking for a reason to say no to this bill.”

In asking for an exception that would at least allow “medically futile” pregnancies to be ended, [Dr. Andrew] Dott told the panel that he delivered his first baby in an elevator in medical school 45 years ago. In all his years of practice, he told the panel, “I have never seen a patient who electively aborted a normal pregnancy greater than 20 weeks.”

McKillip blithely dismissed that claim as well. In fact, he repeatedly treated medical experts testifying against his bill with a zealot’s scorn verging on downright contempt. Contradicting Dott, he insisted that “grand majority” of abortions performed in Georgia past the 20th week are abortions of convenience. But again, he cited nothing more than his own considerable moral certitude as evidence.

It really irks my shit that none of these male people (whom I refuse to call men, because they exhibit none of the characteristics of a true man) think anything about a woman's suffering or pain. That they all think they are so pious and righteous when all they are are pricks who want to show how much more powerful they are than the rest of us. And really? An abortion of convenience? Is that anything like a marriage of convenience? Just curious.

So... sorry about this, Mom. Guess I went a little overboard on the cussing when talking about how these legislators are practically sanctioning rape, calling physicians liars to their face (because their own medical degree from I Know Everything About Women's Bodies Medical School is far more valid and respected than an actual, you know, medical degree). But, well? Mr. Dick? How could I not. He was practically asking for it.