‘Men With Breasts?’: PA State Rep. Slams Female GOP Leaders Supporting Mandatory Ultrasound
- Posted on March 27, 2012 at 12:00pm by
Billy Hallowell
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Democratic State Rep. Babette Josephs (Pennsylvania)
Mandatory ultrasound bills seem to be distinguishing themselves as the newest frontier in the war over abortion here in the United States.
The controversial “Women’s Right to Know” bill under consideration in Pennsylvania would require that a woman have an ultrasound before being permitted to have an abortion. The notion has so enraged Democratic State Rep. Babette Josephs that she has openly lashed out at Republican women who support the measure.
At a rally on Monday, Josephs wondered aloud if the women who had co-sponsored the contentious bill were simply ”men with breasts.” The quip was made at a political rally being held by the Lancaster County Democratic Committee. She launched into her tirade by accusing Republicans in charge of Pennsylvania’s Senate and House of turning the state into a ”laboratory for the right-wing.” The GOP, she contends, wants to “experiment on” women.
PennLive.com provides more about Josephs’ controversial words on the matter:
…she took specific aim at women lawmakers who co-sponsored the ultrasound bill, asking rhetorically, “I do not understand how a woman in this Legislature can say to herself: ‘I’m not capable of making my own health decisions… but I can get elected and make them for somebody else.’
“What is wrong with these women? What are they thinking about?” Josephs continued. “Are they women? Or are they men with breasts?”
Ironically, the Pennsylvania ultrasound bill has been shelved indefinitely by House leaders, in part because of outcries by more moderate GOP lawmakers who don’t want to deal with it in their election year.
Watch her comments, below:
The Republican politicians she was targeting with her hard-hitting words were less than content with her tone as well as the allegations presented within her very public statements.
“I think it’s sad, and certainly disrespectful, to have to describe opponents to your opinion of a bill by attacking and throwing names around,” Republican Rep. Kathy Rapp said.
See Rapp defend the bill in a video posted earlier this year:
Rep. RoseMarie Swanger, a GOP member and a co-sponsor, echoed these sentiments.
“I am a woman, and just because I disagree with her on certain women‘s issues doesn’t make me a man,” she said. “We can have different points of view, but we don’t have to insult each other.”
(H/T: Weasel Zippers)
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Comments (72)
jungle J
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 3:35pmThe mentally ill are so powerful in a society ruled by the progressive regime..
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 5:04pmHey, she’s got a point. Republicans (all of them, you know) want to experiment on women with this new and completely unproven, potentially dangerous technology called…..ultrasound.
Oooohhh…even the name is scarey – ULTRAsound. Whew, man. That gave me a shiver.
Can anyone believe that Republicans (all of them) want to try this experimental, and clearly invasive procedure on women in Pennsylvania? I mean, are Republicans even licensed to perform procedures involving radical technology like this?
My goodness.
Report Post »PrfctlyFrank
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 6:31pmDon’t even have to read the article. Of course this hag refers to other women as, “men with breasts.” Take a look at her and you have to wonder if she’s a woman at all.. Sheesh.. I guess Rush was right.. The “Womens Movement,” is all about getting ugly females the attention they crave.. This legislator is in no danger of needing an abortion, or birth control anytime soon.
Report Post »BarackStalin
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 7:16pmThere are roughly 120,000 adoptions and 1,000,000 abortions every year in America…Shouldn’t we be doing something to try and reverse those numbers?
And aren’t at least half of these aborted babies female? How is it anti-woman to try and save their lives?
How is it anti-woman to make certain that young mothers understand exactly what they are doing instead of greeting them with a salesman when they walk in the door of Planned Parenthood?
Abortionists don’t get paid unless they perform abortions. It is clearly in their best interest to convince a young mother that her baby is nothing more than a tumor that can be removed without consequence…
I should think that helping to ensure women make informed decisions is pro-woman…
Could democrat opposition have more to do with the fact that abortion is big business in America generating hundreds of millions of dollars every year and donating exclusively to one political party?
Does the democrat party care more for their campaign contributions than they do for their constituents?
Ultrasounds do nothing to limit a woman’s right to choose…but surely seeing the child growing inside them will make some women choose birth over abortion…
That is a threat to the income of the abortionists, and Babette wants her cut…
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 8:17pmAre… Hermaphrodites… classified as Men or Women… in the Bill?
Report Post »maryanne3935
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 3:19pmokay I hate to say this, but babbette looks like a man with breasts.
Report Post »michael48
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 3:50pmdon’t want any puppies from this skanks litter…talk about a public burden!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »THX-1138
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 3:14pm”men with breasts.”
I bet she’s as smart as she is pretty…
Report Post »Briggston
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 3:11pmat the risk of sounding sexest (none intended by the way) I would say they are more a woman than this girl and I stress that part. You see real women view the product of their female organs (children) as priceless, not some waste of tissue to be thrown out. My wife may not have the college doctorate or be in a accomplished profession( I will be the first to admit she is smarter than I am and would be better at her career than me) But because she and I made the decision that she stay home while our kids are young shes a real woman in other words a Mother. In my opinion lets give the country to Mothers. You see mothers know and don’t make excuses between right and wrong, the common mother knows more about budgeting than any politician idiot in washington, Mom also knows if you screw with her family and house she’ll send her enemies to hell and let them dig themselves out. True mothers don’t sell out their kids future. Mothers have the balls(ovaries) to say no to their idle and spoiled children who want something without working for it.True Mothers let the consequences of actions take affect so her family learns instead providing an excuse. So keep going True mothers of the conservative influence.Tell the play mother government to go to hell and that you know what is best for your kids because you raise them not abort them and throw them to government nanny wet nurses. Mothers stand up who haven’t sold their lives to be immature girls their whole lives
Report Post »KLOVE77
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 10:15pmLove it Love it Love it. Ty. Women like these liberal hags make me sick. They don’t speak for the rest of us. They don’t want these ultra sounds done, because they know that these women will take one look at that wonderful little life inside of her and know she can’t do it. I remember the first time I saw my baby and heard her heartbeat, I wept for pure joy, there just is nothing like a life inside and them moving, turning, kicking. I love being a woman and ALL that that implies. I hate this womens movement, they say they are for us, but they lie to fill their pockets. They will stand before the Lord one day and give an accounting. At that time, their will be no debates or arguements or slick dealings. The Lord will simply say “Depart for I knew you not”. And on that same day, the Lord will look at me and say “Enter in thou good a faithful servant”.
Report Post »TEIN
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 2:40pmI think Babette needs to shave….looks like a bit of a shadow on her upper lip…maybe its just the light..
Report Post »momsense
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 2:27pmGOP women are real women–not women posing as men like the Democrap Femin azis.
Report Post »Crazyotto
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 2:03pmAs far as men with breast are concerned I think she is projecting her own self loathing
Report Post »Granny58
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 1:33pm“The woman who has an actual life should take precedence over the fetus who only has a potential one. ”
I have never understood this statement. This is life, not a potential life. If it wasn’t life it would not continue to grow. If it was not alive, there would be no need to kill it. It is a human life as much as yours, just in a different phase. We pass through many phases throughout our lives and pre-birth is simply one of them.
I am a Pennsylvanian and a woman and I fully support any effort required to educate people on what they are doing. If they do not have the stamina to view the baby they are carrying before killing it, they shouldn’t be following through with an abortion anyway. Face up to your choices.
Report Post »Crazyotto
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 2:02pmExcellent point! You know I have never really weighed in abortion debate other than to say I thought it was an unnecessary and dangerous procedure. Your explanation really touched me.. you are right to say it is life. They need to accept responsibility for what there are doing and recognize that they are in fact killing a child…
Report Post »Granny58
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 2:09pmThank you CrazyOtto. I appreciate that.
Report Post »Tim Law
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 2:25pmGranny. If people would take a look at what abortion is really about today, we would see that murder and the profit from it are here to stay until our Lord softens the hard hearts of the murderers themselves. They don’t want the mothers to see or know anything about the child, they could have a change of heart and there would go the profit. Not only do we the tax payer pay for most abortions but the murders are now payed big money for the bodies and parts of bodies of these poor souls. They are even an export item now, our nation is very sick and continues to get worse. The murder of our children is now big business, here are a couple truths with the link to start looking into the truth of what abortion is about today. http://www.ourchurch.com/view/?pageID=214839 This is only a start the deeper you dig the worse it get’s. I pray the Lord will return soon and put an end to the evil that abortion is, and I also pray that the Lord will have mercy on us for ever allowing this evil to grow into what it is. I have to admit that my hands are just as bloody as the murderers themselves, for I turned a blind eye and kept my mouth shut when I knew it was murder all along. I ask for God’s forgiveness, I will no longer be silent fore abortion is not only murder but murder for profit.
Report Post »Hollywood
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 3:06pmThose who MURDER babies in the womb,by consent, direct,or indirect action, will pay the price for their murders! God WILL bring ETERNAL justice to them, aside from the things that will happen to them in this life. God will not be mocked, and that includes HIS ETERNAL laws. I pray those that are guilty of these, seek forgiveness, and repent of their murders!
Report Post »GodsavethePeasants
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 4:49pmExcellent post granny. You are a credit to grannies everywhere; does this woman even have any children or grand kids? Maybe she has granny envy.
Report Post »deeberj
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 1:04pmLiberal women cannot stand conservative women because we don’t agree with them. They somehow think that all women MUST think alike and MUST think like them. They HATE that we (conservative women) think for ourselves and make our own decisions outside of their little world.
And in typical liberal way, when they cannot win an argument they call names and get nasty.
Report Post »angelcat
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 12:55pmI am a woman and i strongly support the ultrasounds because I believe women should be completely aware and informed of exactly what they are doing before they have an abortion, even if it is unpleasant for them to do so. They are the ones who will have to deal with the possilbe physical and emotional consequences. The baby, unfortunately, will never have the opportunity to even experience life.
Report Post »Diablo4965
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 12:51pm“I do not understand how a woman in this Legislature can say to herself: ‘I’m not capable of making my own health decisions… but I can get elected and make them for somebody else. Isn’t that exactly what the liberals did with Odumbo Care.
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 1:56pmAbortion in and of itself makes “health”decisions for another person – a person who just happens to temporarily reside within the body of someone else for a time.
no one has the “right” to “pursue their happiness” at the expense of the life or liberty of someone else.
Report Post »Catherine A.
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 12:49pmThe problem with many of these ultrasound laws is that they are mandating not just an abdominal ultrasound but a trans-******* ultrasound, which is a highly invasive procedure. I am staunchly pro-life, but I don’t think the government needs to mandate procedures that involve poking lubricated, condom-wrapped probes into women’s vaginas. That abortion is equally invasive is irrelevant; what is relevant is who is making the demand, and for what reason.
It is true that an ultrasound should be performed prior to any abortion to determine the gestational age of the baby and to rule out an ectopic pregnancy. It is also true that in cases of very early pregnancy, a trans-******* ultrasound may be necessary. But that decision should be made by the abortionist. For the government to demand a trans-******* ultrasound solely or primarily for the purpose of getting a good picture for the mother is simply going to far.
If the government wants all women seeking an abortion to be allowed to see their ultrasound is a good thing. There are reports of abortionists refusing to allow this, or charging a woman who wants to see the baby on the ultrasound and extra $25. There seems to be no good reason why the authors of these bills cannot write them in such a way as to make this clear, without demanding that the government decide which kind of ultrasound is performed.
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 2:12pmSo inserting an injection of xylocane into the cervix to numb it to then receive the vacuum aspiration tube to suck out the little baby is somehow less intrusive?
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 2:47pmsorry – I didn’t read very closely
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 12:46pm.
I think Babette has Man Boob’s…….
Why are Democrat women so damn ugly? And this is the type who’s all for reproductive rights. Lady first you have to find a guy so bad off, that he’ll have sex with you in the first place……..No wonder most Democrats are Alcoholics & use Drugs…………………..
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 1:27pmSpanky, I just want to know just where the Dems keep digging up jackass ugly women so will know to stay away from there. Talk about making a freight train take a dirt road, this woman could scare the stink off of ****. For you truly desperate guys out their, triple bagging would still do not good.
Report Post »Watchyer6
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 12:46pmWow! Look who’s talking.
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 1:12pmLOL!
Someone should ask the LIBERAL Rep. Babette Josephs why she doesn’t like transvestites or trans-gender (a.k.a. “men with breasts” – see article on Canadian tranny kicked out of contest)
Report Post »miketheartist
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 12:44pmSorry, ma’am…I’m afraid the men with breasts are all on your side. Almost made it to the Miss Universe pageant too.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 1:01pmDon’t forget about Bawney Frank! Remember when he wore that tee shirt? He has quite a rack.
Report Post »miketheartist
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 1:04pmAnd thank you for reminding me! Now I have to go wash out my brain….
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 1:32pmGlad to help Mike! LOL
Report Post »hi
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 12:42pmForget the ultrasound, make a law that you cannot snuff out life.
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 12:29pmTypical LIBERAL cult tactic: re-define reality. Women who disagree are no longer women. Conservative African-Americans are no longer “black”. The unborn are no longer “people”.
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 12:52pm“Women who disagree are no longer women.” And a woman forced to submit to some invasive procedure, view an ultrasound, wait 24 hours or a week, or listen to a lecture on fetal development is no longer regarded as a woman either. She is being regarded a child.
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 1:16pmI submit that the unborn baby would consider abortion an “invasive proceedure”. That is why they pull away from the needles and cutting devices, and silently scream as they are killed.
Citizens cannot so much as board an airplane without being scanned, sniffed, wanded, and/or patted down – but killing a baby should be easy-squeasy, right, Lloyd Drako?
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 1:24pmThe most sensible thing ever said about this emotional issue was, “It should be legal, safe and rare.”
The best way to accomplish that would be to encourage contraception and make adoption easier.
Failing that, abortion.
The woman who has an actual life should take precedence over the fetus who only has a potential one.
Most abortions take place at such early stages of pregnancy that needles, cutting devices and screaming hardly enter in.
Report Post »Crazyotto
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 2:46pmExcellent point! sounds like a Saul Alinsky tactic … de-humanize, and misdirect…change the focus to invalidate your opponent.. move away from the content/merit of their argument to the fact they aren’t credible voices…never debate merit, if the facts don’t fit then ignore them. Truth is a relative target… the end always justifies the means….
Report Post »Knight Templar
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 8:00pm@Drako— so since needles, cutting and screaming don‘t happen very often it’s okay?? Really?
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 11:09amNo, it is not OK. Abortion at any stage is a dreadful thing to contemplate, and at a late stage it is a dreadful thing to carry out. I believe that schools, the medical profession and the government should do what they can to promote (not necessarily in that order) abstinence, contraception and adoption. But for all that I also sincerely believe that at any stage, when all is said and done, it is a woman’s right to elect to have one.
Report Post »spirited
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 12:26pm“…are they men with breasts” — ???
>Double standards are bumping up… and growing.
Report Post »AmazingGrace8
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 1:23pmUsing your imagination, why there is a difference between women & mens petal-bikes. Can’t remember the mans name that Glenn talked about to “change” the masses thinking…eggs & bacon for breakfast…so with that in mind…observation of the dog male & female (I won’t go any further)..and therefore, a man lifts his leg & swings it over to get to the 2nd pedal. The womans bike does not have the bar…because women, years ago, mostly wore dresses/skirts. The men with breasts have merit because hopefully it will never be mandated but some men do get breast-cancer (PriceIsRight announcer) but perhaps in the Obama Care will cover mamograms for men.
Report Post »Pass it to know what is in it.
Goldomark
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 12:20pmLife is sacred! Let us excute people! Life is sacred! Trayvon should have been killed! Life is sacred! Kill US citizens without due process!
Yeah, the right is not contradicting it self. Impossible.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 12:45pmGet help, dude…..
Report Post »angelcat
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 12:53pmName one conservative who said that the boy should have been killed? Not one has. They have either supported the boy or said we should wait until all the facts are in. I guess you can’t understand reason. It is easier to make false accusations, right?
Report Post »Mark0331
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 1:20pm@Goldomark….Zimmerman is a registered Democrat. Fact.
Report Post »red_white_blue2
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 12:20pmNo, not lab rats hon..just trying to show you one last time before you do it, that your about to commit murder! That’s all!
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 12:11pmWhen I picture a woman named Babette… this is NOT what I picture. Wasn‘t this the woman named Balbricker in Porky’s? I’m sure it is….
Report Post »barber2
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 12:06pmStrange how the Left who crusade to protect the lives of convicted murderers and other criminals, do not want to be bothered with the messy detail of a conceived life which they wish to be rid the inconvenience of . A life which they conceived, had committed no offense, but was not able to defend itself.
Report Post »Goldomark
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 12:18pmStrange how the right, who claims life is sacred, like to execute people.
Report Post »Mark0331
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 12:26pm@Goldomark…to relate killing an unborn innocent child to executing a child killer, rapist or serial killer…WOW!!…you are using the logic of an adolescent or a liberal..nice try.
Report Post »Knight Templar
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 7:55pmActually no logic at all.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 12:06pmDid Rep. Babette Josephs play George Costanza’s mother?
Report Post »Mark0331
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 12:15pmI thought it was Billy Crystal from a Princess Bride…‘Mirace Max’
Report Post »Mark0331
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 12:18pmMiracle Max..sorry for the typo
Report Post »SpeckledPup
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 12:05pmif it is a democrat woman, it is a degenerate, fugly and pro-abortion and anti-heterosexual to begin with. that ”babette” certainly looks like a bull.
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 12:05pmDid Babette Josephs forget to shave before that picture was taken- please don’t tell me that is a woman.
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