Rep. Matt Gaetz mocks pro-choice protesters, calls them odious and ugly

Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida turned heads over the weekend by mocking pro-choice activists as ugly women who are unlikely to become pregnant, anyway.

“Why is it that the women with the least likelihood of getting pregnant are the ones most worried about having abortions? Nobody wants to impregnate you if you look like a thumb,” Mr. Gaetz, a Republican, told the Turning Point USA action summit in Tampa, Florida.

Mr. Gaetz spoke amid nationwide fervor over the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that extended a national right to abortion, leaving the matter to the states.