Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/01/26/vet-turned-congressman-claims-expertise-in-womens-health-care-from-animal-ultrasounds.html
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It doesn’t even sound like D-K, but more like a deliberate distraction. MAGA Rep. Kitchens is just waving a big sign saying “don’t look there, look over here”.
What the hell does performing ultrasounds have to do with the decision by actual human women about how to deal with a pregnancy?
Does he think those women have no more agency or rights over their future than the livestock he deals with? [rhetorical question]
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In my attempt to avoid confirmation bias, I purposely did not click on the article before posting my comment about Dunning-Kruger.
But, well, dang…
The cruelty really is the point.™
His argument, his conceit, is beyond words, denies the humanity of women, and sentences a specific cohort of pregnant women of all ages to death. Female rape victims who become pregnant after assault are exponentially re-traumatized. I don’t even want to begin to hazard a guess what his stance is on this:
Ye gods I hate this timeline.
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“You look at an ultrasound of an animal – any animal – there’s a sort of squiggly gray blob. Ultrasound of a pregnant woman? Another squiggly gray blob. They look so similar you can hardly tell them apart. I certainly can’t, and I don’t believe my colleagues across the aisle can either. And that’s why I say that abortion isn’t healthcare, a tomato is a vegetable, and cats are reptiles. Also, April has 36 days, Julius Caesar was Polish, and avocados can talk. Q.E.D. Remember, I’m an expert. No further questions.”
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We. Really. Need. That. Puke. Emoji.
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Are abortions on domesticated animals common and considered veterinary care? If so, has he performed any?
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Remember, folks: spay or neuter your Republican representatives.
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Wow…talk about dehumanizing women. The fetuses are human life, but not the “containers”…
I want congress to be forced to watch this, Clockwork Orange style if necessary:
It’s by far the clearest explanation (in my opinion) of why abortion is acceptable and a necessary right.
TL;DW: The fetus is parasitically living off another human, consuming a huge amount of their resources. If someone hooked you up to a blood transfuser for a year with an innocent stranger who would die otherwise, you’d likewise have the right to disconnect them.
(EDIT: I always feel a bit bad posting Abigail’s pre-transition videos, but the videos are just so good. 
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May a “GTFO” emoji too, for when the Congressional performative bullshit gets too wacky.
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Based on his statement, he feels women are “female mammalian life” then?
I wonder if his two daughters agree?
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wow… that’s an impressively non-sequitur bit of blather…
“And if you believe that a fetus is a human life, then abortion is not healthcare. You know, in my veterinary career, …”
First, (of course?), if a fetus is “a human life” then he’d assert that any zygote is?? or potentially any diploid cell shed from a human? (as it could theoretically be used to clone “a human life”) - what nonsense. Then, how from that false statement can any conclude that abortion is not healthcare!? yes we understand that it’s not something this fine gentleman approves of; but does he refuse to see it as a technique commonly practiced for the full history of physician care, let alone often to the direct health benefit of a patient who receives it? (“yes he does refuse to accept that.”) Even just based on these few sentences i don’t want this guy anywhere treating any living thing or making any public policy.
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QED: Exfoliation is MURDER!!! 
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Now he’ll share his expert, birthing technique of tying a rough, heavy rope around the ankles of a stuck baby and then pulling on it.
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Still waiting on my eyeroll.
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TNR; Trap, Neuter, Release, and eventually the population will drop. That’s the theory, anyway.
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I 
the dog.
I 
the cat.
I 
the congress-critter.
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Yes, they are very common. It’s usually a spay-abort, performed either on undesirable pregnancy or an animal experiencing potentially lethal complications. My ex boyfriend’s pug needed one when she had her purebred puppies. I like to think they learned their lesson after her dog nearly died.
This man is as dishonest as he is stupid and cruel.
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