Ralph Shortey, Oklahoma State Senator, Introduces Bill Banning Aborted Fetuses In Food

[mfcorey1]

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]

1. Don't these people have anything better to do. This country is going to hell and the

republican party across this country are only interested in abortion interest.

[TheDebbieDee]

12. Well, apparently there is nothing more urgent for this asswipe to attend to.

The time, money and energy exhausted for this lark of a cuase CANNOT be justified!

[jberryhill]

2. So the burritos are on, or off?

[librechik]

3. huh--that's where I find all my aborted fetuses

I hope this brave man can do something about this terrible problem.

<<<do I really need this?

[niyad]

5. actually, you probably do, for whichever little trolls might be hanging around.

[Mopar151]

4. A ploy - likely trying to hobble stem cell or genetics research. n/t

[niyad]

6. I find it very interesting that his contact information is listed as "friends of ralph shortey"

it is absolutely disgusting that these revolting exampled of human devolution live off the public teat.

[FLyellowdog]

7. Reminds me of an old family recipe. I'm just sayin'. nt

[niyad]

8. or maybe the ribs from "fried green tomatoes"??

[Lost-in-FL]

9. Party is over, atheists.

No more baby eating for you.

[Politicalboi]

11. Damn!

What's next, baby corn. LOL!

[izquierdista]

10. I'd like to add an amendment

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]

13. Aw c'mon, give Rep. Shortey a break

He's just trying to create enough buzz to get himself on the GOP Presidental ticket. Santorum/Shortey, anyone? Newt/Shortey?

[trof]

14. Well I, for one, am greatly relieved.

Like all right thinking Americans, I want my burritos fetus free.

[xfundy]

15. Wait--Publicans eat BURRITOS?

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]

16. Can't say I disagree--I would think fetus chunks would be chewy.

[JitterbugPerfume]

17. Good source of protein?

mystery meat?

[Generic Brad]

18. No more aborted fetus sprinkles on ice cream?

Looks like it's plain vanilla from here on out.

[AnnieBW]

19. Damn

There goes my retirement plan to open a Soylent Green franchise in Oklahoma City!

[gkhouston]

20. Sounds like they need a law against snacking on paint chips. n/t

[Lydia Leftcoast]

21. Reminds me of a militia-type cult in Wisconsin in the 1980s

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]

22. You'll love the reasoning...

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.