Virginia delegate makes coarse joke about wife and transvaginal ultrasounds
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To Delegate Albo, women’s health is not a serious issue, but a punch line, and the floor of the House of Delegates is a locker room, where men can swap jokes about their wives.
~ The Fairfax County Democratic Committee on Virginia Delegate Dave Albo and his joking on the floor of the House over his wife’s refusal to have relations with him because of the controversial transvaginal ultrasound legislation, as quoted by the Washington Post, February 27
[HT: Hot Air]
Feb.29, 2012 6:00 am |
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
This is a wonderful example why we have a 50% divorce rate in the United States of America. How does such a crude jerk get elected?
My guess is Rita won’t want to have relations with him after seeing this.
im not even gonna watch. i will use my imagination.
Not that crude, but definitely not funny either. That’s three minutes of my life I’ll never get back.
I saw this earlier in the day, thought it would be really coarse and awful. After actually watching it, it was sort of funny and everyone was laughing, even the woman in the background and his opponents on the ultrasound legislation. His joke was that his colleague’s coarse discussion of the ultrasound legislation killed the mood with his wife (as a father to a newborn I get that one), I didn’t see anything really political about it. He was poking fun about himself mostly. I don’t see how Planned Parenthood henchwomen overlook taxpayer-funded penis cakes and sex parties but go in a hyper-rage about someone trying to lighten the mood with his colleagues after a contentious debate.
I don’t think we need to be taking our cues from “Planned Parenthood henchwomen” and their “penis cakes and sex parties” on what is and is not appropriate public behavior.
There’s a difference between trying to spark a public dialogue about sex with gaudy stage props and divulging intimate information about your spouse to a roomful of colleagues. This clip offers a pretty clear indication of the kind of antics we can expect from lawmakers who demand that every fetus be squeezed out into the world, at any cost (the woman’s desires be danged).
This is what happens when women’s bodies are treated like public property. I don’t care if somebody’s uterus contains a Faberge egg, a fibroid, a blastocyst, the next Steve Jobs, or the next Pol Pot–she can do whatever the heck she wants with it, until it no longer resides within the confines of her physical person.
And yes, she can do whatever the eff she wants with ANOTHER body that is in her body, right? What about the fetuses bodily autonomy? What about the fact that it is NOT the fetus’s fault that he or she is inside of a woman who doesn’t want him or her? Why should the fetus lose everything when he or she is in a condition that they were FORCED into – most often (in abortion cases)by actions that the mother and father undertook willingly?
This guy really needs to keep his day job. Oh wait, I guess I mean he needs to stop attempting comedy during his day job.
I couldn’t imagine speaking of my wife that way in public. Neither can she.