New GOP Congressmen daily refute the GOPs pretended support of rape exceptions to abortion bans. - Edit 2
Before modification by Joel at 25/10/2012 10:39:37 PM
It would be funny if it were not so pathetic; let us go down the list:
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI,) Vice Presidential nominee: Co-sponsored a House bill declaring all fetuses persons with full constitutional protection.
Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO:) Wrote the above mentioned bill, and defended it on the grounds "legitimate" rape cannot cause pregnancy.
Rep. Steve King (R-IA:) Also co-sponsored Akins bill, defended the "legitimate rape" comment, and says he knows no case of pregnancy by statutory rape/incest.
Senate candidate Richard Mourdock (R-IN:) Declares pregnancy from rape "Gods will" and thus sacrosanct, as if all human acts (e.g. 911) are Gods will.
That is three Congressmen and two potential Senators who support a federal ban on abortions even in cases of rape; the Congressmen have already sponsored a federal law doing just that. If Romney is elected such a law would not even need a majority in the Senate, because Vice President Ryan would break a tie.
At least the Republican PRESIDENTIAL nominee stands apart though. Sure, he made a campaign tour of IA with Steve King a month ago, is running IN ads endorsing Mourdock right now and chose Ryan as his running mate. Still, he SAYS he would include a rape exception in the federal abortion ban he said six months ago he "would be delighted to sign." He also said then that he would never get a chance to sign an abortion ban because it would never pass Congress, but the Republican Party is working hard (whatever they claim) to elect a Congress AND president that will ban abortion.
Romney, Ryan and the GOPs other nominees are either lying when they deny that, or were lying when they endorsed it; either way they are lying about their position on federal abortion law. The question has never been whether they would enact a federal abortion ban, but whether that is acceptable to voters. We shall see....
By the bye, I am slightly stunned that I am the only person in this thread so far familiar with the "how is babby formed?" meme.
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI,) Vice Presidential nominee: Co-sponsored a House bill declaring all fetuses persons with full constitutional protection.
Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO:) Wrote the above mentioned bill, and defended it on the grounds "legitimate" rape cannot cause pregnancy.
Rep. Steve King (R-IA:) Also co-sponsored Akins bill, defended the "legitimate rape" comment, and says he knows no case of pregnancy by statutory rape/incest.
Senate candidate Richard Mourdock (R-IN:) Declares pregnancy from rape "Gods will" and thus sacrosanct, as if all human acts (e.g. 911) are Gods will.
That is three Congressmen and two potential Senators who support a federal ban on abortions even in cases of rape; the Congressmen have already sponsored a federal law doing just that. If Romney is elected such a law would not even need a majority in the Senate, because Vice President Ryan would break a tie.
At least the Republican PRESIDENTIAL nominee stands apart though. Sure, he made a campaign tour of IA with Steve King a month ago, is running IN ads endorsing Mourdock right now and chose Ryan as his running mate. Still, he SAYS he would include a rape exception in the federal abortion ban he said six months ago he "would be delighted to sign." He also said then that he would never get a chance to sign an abortion ban because it would never pass Congress, but the Republican Party is working hard (whatever they claim) to elect a Congress AND president that will ban abortion.
Romney, Ryan and the GOPs other nominees are either lying when they deny that, or were lying when they endorsed it; either way they are lying about their position on federal abortion law. The question has never been whether they would enact a federal abortion ban, but whether that is acceptable to voters. We shall see....
By the bye, I am slightly stunned that I am the only person in this thread so far familiar with the "how is babby formed?" meme.