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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRalph Shortey, Oklahoma State Senator, Introduces Bill Banning Aborted Fetuses In Food
Just when you think that the rethugs have hit rock bottom in their attempts to think, there is this:
A Republican state senator in Oklahoma has introduced a bill banning aborted human fetuses in food, despite the fact that there are no known foods or food products that actually contain aborted fetuses.
Sen. Ralph Shortey of Oklahoma City introduced on Tuesday Senate Bill 1418, which prohibits "the sale or manufacture of food or products which contain aborted human fetuses." He says he based the bill on an article he read online about an anti-abortion group boycotting companies that allegedly use embryonic stem cells to research and develop artificial sweeteners.
People are thinking that this has to do with fetuses being chopped up and put in our burritos, Shortey told NewsOK. "That's not the case. It's beyond that.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/25/ralph-shortley-oklahoma-aborted-fetuses-food_n_1230414.html
southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)republican party across this country are only interested in abortion interest.
TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)The time, money and energy exhausted for this lark of a cuase CANNOT be justified!
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)librechik
(30,674 posts)I hope this brave man can do something about this terrible problem.
<<<do I really need this?
niyad
(113,293 posts)Mopar151
(9,983 posts)niyad
(113,293 posts)it is absolutely disgusting that these revolting exampled of human devolution live off the public teat.
FLyellowdog
(4,276 posts)niyad
(113,293 posts)Lost-in-FL
(7,093 posts)No more baby eating for you.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)What's next, baby corn. LOL!
izquierdista
(11,689 posts)I don't think they should be used in Christmas tree ornaments and those air fresheners that you put on the car dashboard. I hope Ralph can take time from his busy, busy day to incorporate this oversight.
Z_I_Peevey
(2,783 posts)He's just trying to create enough buzz to get himself on the GOP Presidental ticket. Santorum/Shortey, anyone? Newt/Shortey?
trof
(54,256 posts)Like all right thinking Americans, I want my burritos fetus free.
xfundy
(5,105 posts)Ain't that furrin food? What about the 'Murrkin way? They should all pledge to eat only AMERICAN food, no matter what other country it comes from!
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)JitterbugPerfume
(18,183 posts)mystery meat?
Generic Brad
(14,275 posts)Looks like it's plain vanilla from here on out.
AnnieBW
(10,425 posts)There goes my retirement plan to open a Soylent Green franchise in Oklahoma City!
gkhouston
(21,642 posts)Lydia Leftcoast
(48,217 posts)They refused to use computers because they believed that floppy disks were made from the brains of aborted fetuses.
I wish I were making this up.
jmowreader
(50,557 posts)He read something on the Internet, the source of all truth, that a company was developing a chemical test using aborted-fetus stem cells to scientifically determine whether things (specifically, new artificial sweeteners) taste good. Now, most people would just eat some of it to decide whether it tasted good, but not this company--who has announced that not only does their test not contain aborted fetuses but they would never consider using aborted fetuses.
Now if you think of it...an average aborted fetus weighs what, maybe an ounce? In order to make even one commercially-successful food product out of aborted fetuses you'd need more aborted fetuses than get aborted in a year. So to make fifty or a hundred food products out of aborted fetuses...I'm thinkin' Charles Ponzi and his international reply coupons, or Bernie Madoff and his hedge fund that was set up like a regular mutual fund, were thinking small next to Ralph Shortey's aborted-fetus-parfait racket.