“I have a spare tire in my car.”

I don’t know what else to say. I will just quote extensively from this news report from KSN News 3 on May 25, 2011.

Sometime in May Representatives in Topeka, Kansas “were debating a bill that would ban insurance companies from offering abortion coverage in regular health plans. The bill, that was signed into law Wednesday, means women will have to buy a separate health policy to cover abortions.”

During the debate, Barbara Bollier, a Kansas lawmaker “pointed out that abortions would not be covered, under the new Kansas law, for cases of rape and incest.”

Kansas Pete DeGraaf responded by saying, “We need to plan ahead, don’t we, in life?”

Bollier then asked, “And so, women need to plan ahead for issues that they have no control over with pregnancy?”

Are you ready for DeGraaf’s response to this question?

“I have a spare tire in my car,” said DeGraaf. “I also have life insurance. I have a lot of things that I plan ahead for.”

 

“I have a spare tire in my car.”

 

25 thoughts on ““I have a spare tire in my car.”

  1. Miss B

    Well, when we exist in a society that thinks it relevant to comment/speculate on how much makeup an 11-year-old who was gang-raped by a group of grown men was wearing, is it any surprise at all that the burden should always fall on the shoulders of the victimized party? Basically, if you have the gall to walk around with functional lady-parts, you have to be prepared to face the consequences, whatever they might be. (Though all of the general misandry is not terribly helpful either. Saying that men should not be allowed to legislate if said legislation pertains to women is not really the relevant problem at hand, here — there are plenty of women who are — mind-bogglingly, as far as I’m concerned — anti-choice, also. *cough cough, Sarah Palin, cough cough*. It is not simply a clean-cut gender issue, here, but a personal autonomy issue — we should not confuse or conflate the two, because that helps nobody, in the end.)
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  2. vanna

    fucker! once elly and shawn are done with him, let me finish him off by driving back and forth over his face with my spare tire. if anything happens to my car in the process, i’m sure state farm will take care of it.
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  3. TechnoBabe

    Men should not a single right to make laws regarding an issue that they themselves would never ever have or happen to them. Men cannot be pregnant; Men have no business doing anything other than sharing their dumbass opinions but never ever have a right to make laws about women. Why do we women allow men to have that power?
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  4. Amber

    I believe this is the best quote from that absurd debate. Don’t mind me, I’m planning on getting raped soon. I might as well throw in an incestuous relationship and molestation, just in case. We must be prepared!!
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  5. pattypunker

    fucker! once elly and shawn are done with him, let me finish him off by driving back and forth over his face with my spare tire. if anything happens to my car in the process, i’m sure state farm will take care of it.
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  6. dufmanno

    When we finally set sail for Dufmanno Island we can tie him to his spare tire and bind him to the mast. Then when we throw the arrival party (which is going to be spectacular, by the way-I have sparklers!) we can do a tribal dance and throw him into the lava pit to appease the Gods.
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  7. Ameena

    Wow. I really don’t know what else to say either. I’m just sad that I live alongside such ignorant people in a country that I thought was more developed than it really is. Sad. Very, very sad.
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  8. GamerDarling

    I’ll leave a full comment after work, but right now I want to know where to go to donate five dollars so that he’ll get a spare tire model.

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