House Republicans forced to pull bill banning abortions after 20 weeks because female members are acting all girly about it.

Republican House member Renee "Wait, what does this bill say?" Ellmers.

Courtesy of Politico:  

House Republicans had to make late-night, last-minute changes to a piece of legislation that they thought would pass easily. 

This time, the disagreement was over rape and abortion.  

Republican leadership late Wednesday evening had to completely drop its plans to pass a bill that bans abortions after 20 weeks, and is reverting to old legislation that prohibits taxpayer funding of abortions. 

The evening switch comes after a revolt from a large swath of female members of Congress, who were concerned about language that said rape victims would not be able to get abortions unless they reported the incident to authorities. 

The new legislation doesn’t stand a chance to become law, but House Republican leadership wants to have some sort of pro-life bill on the floor Thursday when the anti-abortion March for Life comes to Washington. 

Can you believe these women are refusing to support a law which victimizes women when they are at their most vulnerable?

And they call themselves Republicans!

For the record most clinics and doctors do not perform abortions after 20 weeks unless there are significant medical reasons for doing so. And currently only about 1% of abortions are performed after this time period.

And what makes the 20 week cutoff so unreasonable? Here's why: 

Why do some women wait so long? The answer is that comprehensive fetal testing, such as anatomical sonograms and ultrasounds of the heart, are typically performed just before 20 weeks of gestation. Such scans are critical for uncovering major birth defects, such as anencephaly (severe brain malformations), major heart defects, missing organs and limbs, and other severe birth defects. Fetal development is a complex process that often goes awry. Roughly 2 percent of all pregnancies are complicated by a major birth defect, and of those about 0.5 percent have a chromosomal defect, such as an extra or missing segment of normal DNA. Birth defects are a leading cause of infant mortality, and in many cases of severe birth defects, no medical treatment can salvage a fetus’s life or result in any measure of normal future health.

In other words this law would force women to give birth to babies only to watch them die in the hospital or within the first year of their life, force them to birth a child whose medical bills will bankrupt them before the child says their first word, or birth a child who will never have a normal life and may suffer incredible trauma throughout.

You know Republicans are always bitching about the government intruding on free choice, and yet here they want the government to have control over a woman's uterus and to demand they give birth to a child they may be unable or unfit to care for.

Oh I forgot, they're only women.