Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) attracted ridicule this week after he in contrast girls and fetuses to sea turtles, eagles and their eggs as he argued towards a invoice proposed by Democrats that may assure the precise to abortion beneath federal legislation.
In accordance with Daines’ analogy, which was delivered on the Senate flooring full with a visible assist, the laws would give fetuses fewer protections than turtle and eagle eggs.
“In case you had been to take or destroy the eggs of a sea turtle, now I stated the eggs. Not the hatchlings, that’s additionally a [unintelligible], the legal penalties are extreme. As much as $100,000 fantastic and a yr in jail. Now why?” Daines stated. “Why do we’ve legal guidelines in place that shield the eggs of a sea turtle or the eggs of eagles? As a result of while you destroy an egg, you’re killing a preborn child sea turtle or a preborn child eagle.”
The legal guidelines he’s referring to guard sea turtle and bald eagle nests from people as a result of the species are endangered. There aren’t any legal guidelines stopping feminine wildlife from doing as they please with their very own eggs.
Democrats launched the Girls’s Well being Safety Act in an effort to safeguard abortion entry for hundreds of thousands of girls, following the leak of a draft majority opinion that confirmed the Supreme Court docket was poised to overturn the landmark 1973 abortion rights case, Roe v. Wade, and roll again girls’s rights by 5 a long time.
Daines’ argument was torn aside on social media:
