Wombs Are Tombs—and It's a Good Argument, 'Cuz It Rhymes!

Yesterday, on the daily trainwreck hosted by Sean Hannity over at Fox Nooz, Hannity and his "Great American Panel" of supercool commentators, including rightwing radio douche Bill Cunningham, were discussing Nadya Suleman, and why wouldn't they be opining on a woman's reproductive choices, since that's pretty much the asserted right of every anti-choice misogybag in America.

Anyfucknecks, so Hannity tosses it over to Cunningham for his awesome pontifications, and he comes out with the rather amazing contention that "the official platform of your Democrat Party is that a woman's womb is a tomb." Wow. I've seen some full-tilt anti-choice crazy in my day, but that does just about take the reproductive cake.


[Transcript below.]

I mean, it's true that I've got "Death to America" tattooed on my uterus, but that's just me. I don't think it's an official Democratic Party plank or anything. Geez.
Sean Hannity: And we continue now with our Great American Panel—all right, Bill Cunningham, we believe in individual responsibility as conservatives; let me ask you this: Woman, lives with her parents, in a three-bedroom house, has six kids, she doesn't have a husband, she doesn't have a job, and she gets, you know, she has eight more kids…?

Bill Cunningham: Yeah. Two things come to my mind: One is that there will be millions of Americans working today only to pay the bills for her irresponsibility; it's gonna cost us—saw this report earlier on Fox—something like a million dollars—

Hannity: Just to have the babies!

Cunningham: —to get 'em out of the hospital! Then it's going to be millions of more. You know [to Fox's Democratic Analyst Kirsten Powers], the official platform of your Democrat Party is that a woman's womb is a tomb.

Powers: Oh, come on. This is not my fault.

Cunningham: Normally, women's wombs are tombs, but, in this particular case, where do you stand on fourteen—this is like a litter! And this woman did it—

Powers: I'm opposed to it.

Cunningham: —and I say take all the kids away, take those kids outta there!

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