Pregnant with a fetus that has no brain function? Have it anyway! Yet another Republican Teabagger demonstrates their lack of respect for women.

"Wait! That's where babies come from? No stork involved? Well Gollee!"

Courtesy of Think Progress:  

At 21 weeks, Zink’s doctors discovered that her fetus had no brain function. That type of fetal abnormality was impossible to detect earlier in her pregnancy. “If this bill had been passed before my pregnancy, I would have had to carry to term and give birth to a baby whom the doctors concurred had no chance of a life and would have experienced near-constant pain,” Zink explained. 

“If he had survived the pregnancy — which was not certain — he might never have left the hospital. My daughter’s life, too, would have been irrevocably hurt by an almost always-absent parent.” In order to justify his support for H.R. 1797, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) suggested that Zink should have given birth to her son anyway, regardless of the pain that may have caused her family. The congressman told a story about a different couple who decided to give birth to a fetus with different types of disabilities — suggesting that Zink should have made the same choice for her son, instead of deciding to “rip him apart”: 

GOHMERT: Ms. Zink, having my great sympathy and empathy both. I still come back wondering, shouldn’t we wait, like that couple did, and see if the child can survive before we decide to rip him apart? So. These are ethical issues, they’re moral issues, they’re difficult issues, and the parents should certainly be consulted. But it just seems like, it’s a more educated decision if the child is in front of you to make those decisions.

Yes by all means ladies. Carry a severely damaged child, with no hope of durvival, to full term. Pay the enormous medial bill that will surely accompany that birth. Watch the infant qrite with pain for days while you decide how long to let it suffer. And then, after your other child has met and bonded with the baby. decide to end its life so as to have the MAXIMUM negative effect possible on you and your family.

Personally I just think Louie Gohmert feels a certain kinship to yet another creature with no traceable brain function, and cannot stand to contemplate what would have occurred if HIS mother had been given the choices that Mrs. Zink was offered.   

Do these politicians have to fail an IQ test before they are considered a worthy representative of the state or something? Because I gotta tell ya, that's what it looks like from here.