New GOP Congressmen daily refute the GOPs pretended support of rape exceptions to abortion bans.
Joel Send a noteboard - 25/10/2012 10:07:21 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.
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This message last edited by Joel on 25/10/2012 at 10:39:37 PM
every time a republican candidate mentions rape, i think of the following video
- 25/10/2012 05:58:16 PM
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that's hilarious and evokes a "what the shit?" much like all those gop jackasses.
- 25/10/2012 08:03:24 PM
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The sole difference between Western and Mideast fundamentalists is the god blamed for intolerance
- 26/10/2012 01:29:54 AM
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I am SO GOING to get flamed for asking this 
- 25/10/2012 08:45:21 PM
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- 25/10/2012 08:45:21 PM
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No, because God did not have sex with Mary.
- 25/10/2012 09:23:12 PM
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Closer than Roland, but still off.
- 25/10/2012 09:51:12 PM
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However parsed, since Marys supposed sinlessness is through Christs conception, it is retroactive
- 25/10/2012 10:10:48 PM
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The point I am horrible job making is this
- 25/10/2012 10:12:53 PM
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The biblical narrative states an act of CONCEPTION without an act of SEX.
- 25/10/2012 10:37:48 PM
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New GOP Congressmen daily refute the GOPs pretended support of rape exceptions to abortion bans.
- 25/10/2012 10:07:21 PM
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This is not a source I generally resort to, but let me quote John Cornyn:
- 25/10/2012 11:11:04 PM
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I think he is an idiot for saying it
- 25/10/2012 11:53:01 PM
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Calling y Gods will calls x Gods will, because y depends on x.
- 26/10/2012 12:14:27 AM
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I'm really not going to debate theodicy with you, especially since I'm not even a believer.
- 26/10/2012 12:24:57 AM
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Choice forms a critical distinction there; small wonder Cornyn and Mourdock missed it.
- 26/10/2012 12:48:18 AM
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