GOP congressman: I oppose abortion because fetuses masturbate

In a rather amazing story that lit up Twitter around midnight. Republican congressman Michael Burgess (R-TX), who is an OB/GYN, told a US House committee on Monday that he thinks abortion should be banned after 15 weeks as that’s when male fetuses begin to masturbate.

The story was first reported by Adele Stan of RH Reality Check, and subsequently Raw Story found a link to the entire hearing posted on the House Rules Committee Web site.  Here is the money quote from Burgess, followed by the video, that I excerpted as it was over an hour long:

This is a subject that I do know something about…. There is no question in my mind that a baby at 20-weeks after conception can feel pain. The fact of the matter is, I argue with the chairman because I thought the date was far too late. We should be setting this at 15-weeks, 16-weeks… You watch a sonogram of a 15-week baby, and they have movements that are purposeful. They stroke their face. If they’re a male baby, they may have their hand between their legs. They feel pleasure, why is it so hard to think that they could feel pain?

Yep, it’s always about the boy’s pleasure, not the girl’s.

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Dear Republicans: I’ve Had it With Your Ignorance

At some point with many things that drive you crazy you hit a breaking point, and I might have just reached mine. 

Now this isn’t aimed at sensible Republicans, I know there are a few out there.  The problem is the key part in that that sentence “a few”— very few, and seemingly getting smaller every day.

I can handle ideological difference.  I can handle reasonable debate on issues such as immigration, taxes, our deficits and war.  But what I can’t handle is utter stupidity.  Just sheer ignorance about issues where not even the slightest bit of common sense seems to be prevalent in someone’s thought process.

It terrifies me that many of these people drive out on our roads without someone telling them what to think and do.

For example, someone like Sarah Palin.  You see, we had the yearly White House Correspondence dinner this week.  It’s a tradition that goes back to 1920 and something that almost every President has attended.

But here this twit just had to tweet about it…

Well first, it probably wasn’t even her that sent the actual tweet.  I’m sure she’s too damn dumb to figure out how to properly use Twitter.

But still, her Twitter account sent out a tweet, and in pure Palin ignorance she basically said ‘while the rest of the country is out there working our asses off, the DC assclowns throw themselves a nerd prom.’  The keyword being working our asses off.