Okay… we know the debate on abortion can get a little crazy around the country.

But a recent debate on abortion rights in Georgia kicked crazy up a notch.

State rep.Terry England  got a case of Foot-in-Mouth disease when he spoke to defend bill 954 in the Georgia state legislature. The bill would move the limit on legal abortions in Georgia up six weeks to the 20 week mark.

Representative England, when asked why the bill makes no exception for women whose fetuses are stillborn, demonstrated the depth of his compassion and understanding for women in this sad situation.

He explained these women should carry the dead child for the full term of the pregnacy noting he has been emotionally devastated by helping his cows deliver stillborn calves.

No, seriously.

Advocates of the bill defend the measure as a necessary way to protect unborn fetuses from feeling pain (current studies suggest the structures in the brain necessary to perceive pain do not function until eleven weeks after the current legal abortion limit).

Rep Doug McKillip argues the bill will, “save 1,000 to 1,500 lives”.

Opponents point out that the bill currently offers no exceptions for stillbirths, cases of rape or incest, or for mothers whose medical condition is discovered after the twenty week mark.

Others simply feel the bill is an unnecessary invasion into the privacy of doctor and patients.

Dr. Ruth Cline, an obstetrician said,

“It is time for the government to get out of my examination room and my office. If you legislators want to practice medicine, go to medical school”.

Cows and controversy aside, bill 954 has passed in the Georgia house and is set to be reviewed by the state senate.