I’m guilty, and I’m sorry. I dutifully reported last week about Rep. Sue Myrick voting in favor of the Let Women Die Act (also known as the Protect Life Act). Unfortunately, I failed to notice that our old friend, Rep. Virginia Foxx — proud member of N.C.’s Quadrumvirate of Crazy, along with Sue Myrick, Patrick McHenry and Renee Ellmers — had stepped in it again while defending the abortion bill.
The Let Women Die Act, which passed the House but faces a tougher battle in the Senate, would allow hospitals that receive federal money to refuse to treat any pregnant woman seeking an abortion in any circumstances, even if an abortion was necessary to save the woman’s life.
Rep. Foxx rose to defend the bill against charges that it was misogynist. The bill, said Foxx, “takes away no protections from women in this country. It is not extreme.” She followed with a statement that was fearsome in its effect on bullshit detectors nationwide. “Nobody has ever fought more for the rights of women than I have,” declared Foxx, while saying that pro-choice advocates are the real misogynists because — get this — “50 percent of the unborn babies being aborted are females.” You can see Foxx’s comments here:
First of all, as ThinkProgress noted, Foxx apparently doesn’t know that the majority of abortions in America take place around the 10th week of pregnancy, well before gender is definitively identifiable. And “nobody has fought more for women’s rights" than Virginia Foxx? Really? That high, humming sound you hear is probably Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Victoria Woodhull, and the millions of women who risked arrest to gain the right to vote, all spinning in their graves.
Foxx, in fact, has voted against women’s health bills at least nine times, including a vote against funding for Planned Parenthood. Of course, she also voted against the health reform law, which bars health insurance companies from denying coverage to women “due to pre-existing conditions, such as cancer and having been pregnant.” That bill, Foxx famously declared, was a greater “danger to America than any terrorist” and would result in Americans "being put to death by their government.” As always with Ms. Foxx, we ask: What are people drinking in Watauga County that makes them keep re-electing this paleolithic embarrassment?
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