Real Freakazoid Family Values

Yet still more evidence than ever before that members of the Wire Hanger Brigade are willing to throw poor children, social workers and cancer patients under the bus in order to accomplish their real goal of controlling other people's sex lives. The latest from the Kentucky General Assembly:

Four more bills dealing with child welfare and public health may be dead this session because of a Republican lawmaker’s effort to attach a controversial anti-abortion measure to them.

Rep. Tim Moore of Elizabethtown has filed language from a failed anti-abortion bill as an amendment to House bills involving cancer screening, social worker safety, health care for poor children and services from physicians’ assistants.

The move follows that of Rep. David Floyd, R-Bardstown, who recently filed the same anti-abortion amendment to three other House bills involving child welfare, including one aimed at reducing Kentucky’s high rate of child deaths from abuse and neglect.

The proposed amendment would require a doctor providing an abortion to first perform an ultrasound and offer to show images of the fetus to the patient; it also requires a woman seeking an abortion to get face-to-face counseling from a physician or other health professional 24 hours before the procedure.

Yes, this is the same rape-the-sluts bill that requires doctors to shove a camera into the vagina of a woman seeking an abortion, against her will, then force her to view the resulting video while being berated for her evil sinfulness.

Rep. Tom Burch, D-Louisville and sponsor of four of the seven bills affected by the amendment, on Monday called Floyd and Moore “hypocrites” and said he is so angry that he plans to drop out of a 7 a.m. weekly prayer meeting of lawmakers they attend at the Capitol.

“These are two elected officials that are supposed to be serving the people of Kentucky, and they’re out killing all the good legislation that could help the people of Kentucky — particularly the children,” Burch said.

Equally angry is Rep. David Watkins, a Democrat and Henderson physician whose children’s health bill is affected by one of Moore’s anti-abortion amendments.

“I wish he really did care about kids,” Watkins said of Moore. “This is the most absurd thing I’ve ever seen.”

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Email Rep. Moore at tim.moore@lrc.ky.gov.

Call any Kentucky legislator toll-free at 800-372-7181.