Sunday, March 3, 2019

enrique baloyra: Fla House speaker calls pregnant women "host bodies" - YouTube

Fla House speaker calls pregnant women "host bodies" - YouTube

Fla House speaker calls pregnant women "host bodies"




Florida House Speaker Jose Oliva stepped in it this week when, on live television, he referred to pregnant women as “host bodies” five times during an interview with Jim DeFede. Throughout his political career Oliva has championed small government and individual freedom. But somehow he doesn’t think these freedoms apply to pregnant women when determining their own healthcare needs. The Miami Lakes Republican later tried walking back his comments by saying he was only trying to use a technical term. But then he forgot to refer to use the technical term for his own body: a lying sack of fertilizer. Florida Democratic Chair Terrie Rizzo characterized his remarks as, “hurtful, dehumanizing, and misogynistic.” “You’d expect to hear this offensive language in the Handmaid’s Tale,” referring to the book and popular TV series depicting a dystopian present, where Christian fundamentalists have taken control of the government. What makes the Speaker’s comments even more chilling are “fetal heartbeat” bills filed by Pensacola Rep. Mike Hill and Ocala Sen. Dennis Baxley, blocking doctors from performing abortions as early as six weeks. “Oops, someone said the quiet part out loud. No surprises here: the anti-choice movement has never valued women as people.” https://twitter.com/NARAL/status/1101... “[M]y Baptist school saw me as a potential incubator who smiled on demand and cleaned things.” https://twitter.com/AmazonAutism/stat... “I only wish these same people who act pro life would extend that same philosophy to those who are living and support our rights to be free of gun violence. That would be pro life.” https://twitter.com/fred_guttenberg/s... You see, it’s these same, self-described “pro lifers” who laugh at brown children in cages, make it easy for criminals and people on the FBI Terrorist Watchlist to get guns, and have never met a war they didn’t love. They shrug their shoulders when police officers shoot and kill black kids, saying they were probably up to no good. And their rhetoric is dangerous, because it incites wing nuts to bomb women’s health clinics and synagogues. They’re not pro life at all, just pro birth. Until it comes to their own mistresses, whom of course they fly to liberal states, where privater doctors can get rid of the “problem” discreetly. It never ceases to amaze me the number of women these forced birthers fool every election cycle. Legislative session incoming. Brace for impact.



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