Lawmaker With COVID: My Health Choices Are Up To Me. Critics: That’s What Women Assert.
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08/01/2020 10:26 pm ET Updated 5 hours ago
Lawmaker With COVID: My Health Choices Are Up To Me. Critics: That’s What Women Assert.
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) tweeted that his course of treatment battling COVID-19 is up to him and his doctor — not “government bureaucrats.”
Funny, critics pointed out, that’s exactly what women want when it comes to reproductive health.
Gohmert, who is opposed to abortion rights and believes women should carry unwanted pregnancies to term, has been slammed on Twitter for defending his own health care choices since he tested positive Wednesday for COVID-19 . His anti-abortion beliefs are on the extreme end of the spectrum. He once told a woman she should have carried her brain-dead fetus to term “just in case.”
Gohmert has decided to take hydroxychloroquine — the anti-malarial drug often touted by President Donald Trump . Studies have found that the drug has proven to be ineffective against the novel coronavirus. In some patients, it can trigger fatal heart arrhythmia .
Gohmert’s “pro-life” stance may also be undermined by the fact that he’s long refused to wear a mask to stem the spread of COVID-19 and protect lives. He insisted last month that he didn’t need a mask because he didn’t have the virus. Gohmert discovered he was COVID-19 positive when he was tested before a planned trip with Trump.
Bizarrely, he speculated that he may have contracted the virus because he has recently used a mask.
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Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) tweeted that his course of treatment battling COVID-19 is up to him and his doctor — not “government bureaucrats.”
Funny, critics pointed out, that’s exactly what women want when it comes to reproductive health.
Gohmert, who is opposed to abortion rights and believes women should carry unwanted pregnancies to term, has been slammed on Twitter for defending his own health care choices since he tested positive Wednesday for COVID-19 . His anti-abortion beliefs are on the extreme end of the spectrum. He once told a woman she should have carried her brain-dead fetus to term “just in case.”
a hypocrite, the biggest moron in congress, and a republican...
He looks like a troll creature from the Lord Of The Rings. His name just completes the comparison.
no I don't, and you're correct, the right wing of congress is flush with hypocrites...
it doesn't take a psychic to predict how I hope this turns out...
Bizarrely, he speculated that he may have contracted the virus because he has recently used a mask.
Straight. Up. Gomer. (the 'h' and 't' are optional.)
Those damn masks, they are responsible so many COVID cases, all one of them.
As my sainted grandmother would say, ''that boy ain't all there in the head''.
As my sainted grandfather would say, ''that boy could fuck up a one-car funeral''
Gramps was a bit more explicit in his language.
Flakier than my grandmother's best biscuits.
Ha!
Every time I see him flapping his yap in that viral video, I'm so embarrassed that I pretend to be from any state other than the one I'm in...and that's coming from a die-hard Texas native.