New Hampshire Lege tells kids to shove their “state raptor” bill right up their butts http://t.co/cJsAkZN1e5 http://t.co/gCaZubRklo

— Wonkette (@Wonkette) March 19, 2015

In yet another instance of state lawmakers taking a perfectly nice idea proposed by some civic-minded kids and teaching them a wholly dispiriting lesson about how government really works, several members of the New Hampshire House went out of their way last Thursday to be personally dickish to a group of fourth graders who had written to their state representative to propose a bill. The kids had proposed that the red-tailed hawk be named the official State Raptor, and the bill initially made it through the Environment and Agriculture committee. But when the kids and their teacher, James Cutting, took a field trip Lincoln Akerman School in Hampton Falls to see their bill pass in the full House, they got a civics lesson they hadn’t expected.

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…Rep. Warren Groen (Guess which party!), who somehow managed to suggest that the fourth graders were a mob of potential abortionists:

“It grasps them with its talons then uses its razor sharp beak to basically tear it apart limb by limb, and I guess the shame about making this a state bird is it would serve as a much better mascot for Planned Parenthood.”

Presumably, Rep. Groen then distributed gory photos of aborted fetuses to the kids to help them remember their trip to the state house.