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"   You know what, forget everything you learned in 10th grade bio. According to Todd Akin, if you&amp;#039;re legitimately raped, your body will magically &amp;quot;shut down&amp;quot; a pregnancy. Not that you should worry anyway, because if Republican Rep. Trent Franks is to be believed, &amp;quot;the incidence of rape resulting in pregnancy are very low.&amp;quot; Today, there is more highly-scientific Old White Man Knowledge being dropped on America: Congress should ban abortions after 22 weeks because male babies masturbate in the womb, and thus can feel both pleasure and pain. This latest gem comes courtesy of Republican Rep. Michael Burgess of Texas, A FORMER OB/GYN!, who told RH Reality Check (via Jezebel): &amp;quot;Watch a sonogram of a 15-week baby, and they have movements that are purposeful. They stroke their face. If they&amp;#039;re a male baby, they may have their hand between their legs. If they feel pleasure, why is it so hard to believe that they could feel pain?&amp;quot; This is Burgess&amp;#039; positively genius argument in favor of the 22-week abortion ban (officially, the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act) being voted on in the House of Representatives today. It&amp;#039;s the strictest piece of abortion legislation to come to a vote in the House or Senate in a decade. What better time for lawmakers to spread misinformation?!  We understand that some lawmakers are anti-abortion (that&amp;#039;s the beauty of having a choice, actually, that each woman can make a decision for herself; no one has to get an abortion) but why not argue your point on the basis of personal religious beliefs instead of MAKING STUFF UP and posturing that fetuses are masturbating in utero? Also, just to play along for a second, why would only male fetuses be capable of &amp;quot;touching themselves between their legs?&amp;quot; Humor us, Rep. Burgess, and let us know. Photo credit: house.gov For more from Michelle, follow her on Twitter. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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