Need more evidence that "pro-lifers" don't give a good goddamn about life? You know, in case the doctors they've murdered, the patients they've terrorized, and the disastrous laws they've already managed to get passed didn't yet have you convinced?

This week, the Republicans in the House (plus some Democratic accomplices) were only too happy to oblige:

The House just passed the "Protect Life (Unless it's a Woman's) Act," 251-172. Fifteen Democrats voted with Republicans, two Republicans defected.

H.R. 358, the "Let Women Die" bill, has nothing to do with protecting life. What the bill does do is provide cover to hundreds of Catholic hospitals and other medical providers who think the Bible tells them to save the fetuses and screw everyone else. This bill gives those hospitals the "right" to deny life-saving care to women, if that life-saving care means terminating a pregnancy. In the "pro-life" world, protecting life means letting women die.

It's disgusting and despicable—and doomed to fail, given that it will probably die a deserved death in the Senate and, in case it doesn't, the White House has signaled that it will most likely veto any such bill. As it should.

This, though, from Rep. Virginia Foxxxxxxxx (R-Batshit Crazyville) is just comical:

This bill “takes away no protections from women in this country,” she insisted. “It takes away no rights. It is not extreme.” Declaring herself to be foremost defender of women’s rights, Foxx countered that pro-choice advocates are actually misogynists because “fifty percent of the unborn babies being aborted are females”:

FOXX: For my colleagues across the aisle who say this is a misogynist bill, nobody has ever fought more for the rights of women than I have. But fifty percent of the unborn babies that are being aborted are females. So the misogyny comes from those that promote the killing of unborn babies. That’s where the misogyny comes in.

Oh, Virginia. Fighting for women's rights? Yeah, you're doing it wrong. Because passing bills to restrict their access to life-saving medical care doesn't really do much in the way of their rights. But you know what it does do? It demonstrates, once again, that there is absolutely nothing pro-life about you and your fellow "pro-lifers."

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See this week's good, bad and ugly below the fold.