WATCH: Kansas lawmaker absolutely reams fellow GOPer who says fetal research is like Nazi Holocaust murders

Anti-abortion Kansas state Sen. Steve Fitzgerald (R) met his match on Tuesday after a fellow Republican called him out for comparing fetal research to horrific Nazi experiments carried out at concentration camps.

During a state Senate debate on a measure that would outlaw experiments on fetal tissue, Republican state Sen. Barbara Bollier stood up to challenge the amendment.

"I'm concerned about this because [Fitzgerald] cannot answer how this money is even being spent [on fetal research] or why we would need a bill such as this," Bollier said. "Studies that are done currently are all legal and done in the interest of science for people who have control over their own medical decisions."

According to Bollier, women who choose to terminate their pregnancies should have right to have the fetus studied for medical purposes.

Fitzgerald responded by playing the Nazi card.

"I find the argument that this will benefit science, therefore benefit mankind, to be a discredited argument," Fitzgerald said. "It's was used by significantly infamous groups in the past who conducted experiments on humans with the same justification."

The Republican senator specifically dropped the name of Nazi scientist Josef Mengele.

Bollier said that she found "great offense" in Fitzgerald's Nazi argument.

"The difference is that was illegal," she explained. "Those were human beings. We are talking about tissue at this point."

Bollier noted that current Kansas law does not define life as beginning at conception.

"And so we are not talking about killing," she remarked. "Some people may use that terminology. But in our law, we are not talking about killing. Because we don't recognize it as that. And you may as a personal opinion feel that way, but people do not choose to terminate a pregnancy to study science. I find that offensive as well."

"Most of them who are pregnant and must choose to terminate or make that choice because of a serious fetal anomaly or other problem are heartbroken," Bollier added. "They want to have a healthy baby and they don't have that choice at this time. So, to further jeopardize possible help to them carrying to term a healthy fetus, a healthy baby is wrong and I will not be supporting this amendment."

As Fitzgerald defended his Nazi comparison, Bollier walked off the Senate floor.

The Senate passed the amendment by a 20-15 vote.

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