GA GOP Rep. Bobby Franklin Says America Is Like Qadaffi Because Abortion Is Legal

[Shallah Kali]

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/03/19/bobby-franklin-abortion-libya/

Yet as Georgia Politico’s Dustin Baker notes, one state legislator raised a particularly odd objection to the No Fly Zone on his Facebook page. Reacting to a news article about Western strikes in Libya, Franklin asked, “How would we like it if other countries launched attacks upon these United States because of our regime’s war against the unborn?” — seemingly drawing a moral equivalency between Libya’s Qadaffi dictatorship and legal abortion in the United States:

And earlier, Franklin mocked comments that dictators like Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak and Libya’s Qaddafi were delusional, writing that Americans “are the most delusional people on earth”:

Franklin is no stranger to bizarre comments and advocacy. He has previously advocated for the abolition of drivers licenses and wanted to force women to prove their miscarriages happened naturally. Georgians who are fed up with Franklin’s antics have started a Facebook group called “Bobby Franklin: Georgia’s Charlie Sheen.”

Franklin ran without opposition in 2010 - http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Bobby_Franklin

btw he is also a Christian Reconstructionist like Sharron Angle ( article on angle http://www.slate.com/id/2264348/ )

Georgia Legislator Behind Bill Criminalizing Miscarriage is Christian Reconstructionist
http://www.religiondispatches.org/dispatches/julieingersoll/4317/georgia_legislator_behind_bill_criminalizing_miscarriage_is_christian_reconstructionist/

[PDJane]

1. One of my profs

Told me, years ago, that there would be problems with the religious right, eventually. His theory was that the kind of religion that these people believe in makes belief in improbable things a goal, short-circuiting reason and intelligence. From what I can determine, he had the right of it.

[Tx4obama]

2. I am sick and tied of hearing from MEN that do NOT have a UTERUS. n/t

[Shallah Kali]

5. Women Deserve Better

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOV7RyHjl5c&NR=1

"Keep your Boehner out of my uterus!
http://keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus.tumblr.com/

[hyphenate]

7. +brazillion! eom

[provis99]

3. he's right about Americans being the most delusional on earth.

He should count himself and his fans as among the deluded.

[MedleyMisty]

4. Same thing I'm seeing around DU today

No thought, no reason, just highly charged hyperbole.

[hyphenate]

6. What a fucking idiot.

"....writing that Americans “are the most delusional people on earth...."

And HIS name is on the top of the list!

[Arkana]

8. Isn't this the same guy who tried to reclassify miscarriages as murder?

Yet another small-town psychopath desperately trying to make front-page news.

[Shallah Kali]

9. he had been introducing that legislation since 2002

he isn't only out to make a name. this dude is religiously motivated theocrat part of a movement that wants a christian flavored theocracy. the reason sharia freaks them out is not the restriction of women's rights and the like but that it isn't done in the name of their own deity.


Miscarriage Is Murder?
http://www.newschannel9.com/articles/fire-999405-women-representative.html

Representative Franklin has introduced House Bill 1, always the first measure on the House's list of issues to tackle every year since 2002. It's called the "prenatal murder" bill that would make abortion murder and in cases of miscarriage a woman would have to prove she didn't have "human involvement."

[WillyT]

10. K & R !!!

:kick:

[Zephie]

11. K&R.

I just saw this for the first time on Twitter.