Capitol Alert: Norma Torres blasts male colleagues during CA assembly abortion debate

blogs.sacbee.com ^ | 23 Aug 2012 | Jim Sanders

[smokingfrog]

Debate over abortion-related legislation took a combative turn in the Assembly today when a Pomona Democrat blasted male ignorance of women's bodies, then defied house floor leaders who asked her to stop. Assemblywoman Norma Torres' outburst ended nearly an hour of fierce debate over Senate Bill 623 to continue a pilot project in which physician assistants, nurse practitioners and nurse midwives provide first-trimester aspiration abortions. The measure ultimately passed, 46-24, despite Republican opposition.

Torres began her floor speech by noting the words of Todd Akin - though not mentioning his name. The U.S. Senate candidate from Missouri sparked a national furor last week by saying that a "legitimate rape" doesn't usually cause pregnancy because women's bodies have a way to "shut that whole thing down." Torres said that for a hundred years, perhaps 200 years, "women have been under attack - attack of the ignorant, attack of our male counterparts that cannot understand our bodies." House Majority Floor Leader Charles Calderon, also a Democrat, rose on the Assembly floor to say that history can be discussed at another time but that Torres should "stick to the issues presented in the bill." She bristled.

"The history of women's suffrage is very appropriate to this bill, and I take offense at any man who dares to stand up and shut me down," Torres responded. "As a woman, I refuse to be shut down."

Calderon countered that Assembly rules apply to all members.

"As a woman, I will not be shut down," Torres replied.

[Made In The USA]

‘...first trimester aspiration abortions...’

So this is what is important to CA democrap women? This funding of killing babies in CA is somehow an important issue that an insolvent State must be addressed?

Pathetic.

[Menehune56]

"Women continue to be oppressed by the ignorance that our bodies can simply get rid of something a male has inserted inside of us that we did not want, forcibly."

What???

[pogo101]

That’s some seriously serious leftism, when you start calling the nearly 2/3 left-liberal Assembly, including its designated chairman/ speaker, insufficiently liberal. Just wow.

[skeeter]

I hope this means Ms Torres isn't planning on offering opinions on issues involving people of other ethnicities, nationalities, gender preferences, religions, age brackets or handicap statuses.

And certainly- God forbid - she understands that she can have NO input on issues that can be loosely defined as 'mens'.

Whatta freaking loon.

[smokingfrog]

It’s for the children...

.. oh wait...

[jarwulf]

*Yawn* Actual news would be Commiefornia NOT passing an ultraleftist turd bill.

Commiefornia does something wacky, libtards gloat about it, we get mad. Commiefornia does something wacky, libtards gloat about it, we get mad, wash, rinse, repeat.

The cold hard truth is that Californians are getting the government they voted for. Wasting energy raging at Sacramento for being crazy is like getting mad at a tortoise for not performing well on the 100 meter dash

[muir_redwoods]

In my darkest moments I sometimes wonder if I could be content letting the left murder it’s own babies. I hate this conflict in me.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Made In The USA]

Re-read my post. I wasn’t calling it insufficiently liberal, I was stating that their liberalism IS the problem.

[pogo101]

Actually, I wasn’t responding to your comment at all. I was attempting to respond to the OP but mis-clicked on your comment #2 instead of the initial post.