Tennessee Anti-Abortion Republican Claims He Remembers His Birth

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A Tennessee Tea Partier claimed earlier this week he has a “conceptual memory of being born” – he then went into graphic detail of the apparent memory right there on the state Senate floor.

Hal Rounds, president of Tennessee’s West Fayette Republican Club and former candidate for the state House, was speaking to the state Senate as a witness to advocate for the legislature’s anti-abortion bill that aims to ban the procedure as soon as pregnancy is detected.

Rounds opened his remarks with a personal statement, noting it was the 75th anniversary of his birth. “Every birthday is a celebration of not having been aborted,” he said.

To argue that fetuses can consciously feel while in the womb (a notion science completely rejects), Rounds then described his apparent memories of his birth.

“In the womb there was a sensation of compression and advancement against one side and another,” Rounds said. “This urgent pressure to burst out.”

“I had this dream repeatedly through my youth,” he continued. “And one day I said, ‘You know, that’s kind of like being born.’ And the dreams stopped.”

“From the clip I viewed of Mr. Rounds’ testimony, he simply stated he had a ‘conceptual memory’ of being born,” Fayette County Republican Party chairman Kevin Powers told TPM. “Nowhere did he state this was scientific.”

Watch Rounds’ full video appearance here.

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  1. “Nowhere did he state this was scientific.”

    The new motto of the Republican Party.

  2. “In the womb there was a sensation of compression…"

    “it was my head getting squeezed a bit too hard, which explains why I now say stupid bullshit on a regular basis. Like, I remember my own birth. And, I think I’ll be a republican.”

  3. Avatar for drtv drtv says:

    I had this dream

    MLK Jr. you ain’t.

  4. Hey, it easy to remember when you were born if you were “born again”.

    But it seems a little dangerous to do so, since the majority of those who have that second birth appear to suffer very high rates of brain damage

  5. It would be somewhat credible if he remembers coming out of his mother’s asshole.

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