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In an interview with CNNs Piers Morgan, Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul was asked whether or not victims of rape should have access to abortion services. He said that while he believes that life begins at the moment of conception, the issue is too complex for him to give an answer that will satisfy everyone.
In an interview from Las Vegas on Piers Morgan Tonight, Morgan asked whether as a man with daughters and granddaughters, Rep. Paul (R-TX) thinks that abortion is warranted if a woman has been impregnated by a rapist.
If its an honest rape, Paul replied, that individual should go immediately to the emergency room, I would give them a shot of estrogen. He claimed, however, that if a woman is seven months pregnant and says that she was raped, Its a little bit of a different story.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/04/ron-paul-tells-piers-morgan-only-honest-rape-merits-abortion/
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)Are also looking for an abortion?
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)That women who are 7 months or more pregnant routinely skip down the road and have an abortion.
Seven month abortions are extraordinarily rare. They are performed under dire circumstances where the fetus is already dead or soon will be and there is an intervention to protect the health of the mother.
These procedures are even less rare now, since one of the last doctors willing to perform it was murdered in his own church.
These days a woman with a dead fetus inside her has to wait to go into natural labor and give birth to a corpse.
If her uterus goes septic and she also starts to rot as a result that's her fault for choosing to be born a woman.
provis99
(13,062 posts)She had a dead fetus she had to carry around for three months, because she couldn't get an abortion in Mississippi. She caught an infection from the rotting corpse and nearly died, thanks to the primitive anti-abortion culture in the red states.
nobodyspecial
(2,286 posts)I can't imagine. I hope she is healing from that.
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)If you have friends who are pregnant, advice them to not step in a Catholic hospital.
The focus will not be on saving Her life. She or her spouse/partner will have NO choice in the matter.
abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)But had to carry one baby who didnt make it as long as possible in order to have her twin who was developing well. Almost killed me, heartbreaking too but I'm so thankful for the daughter I have today! I hope your cousins wife was able to have healthy children after such a heartbreaking event.
The whole late term abortion thing is a rotten thing for abortion opponents to trot out. No one ever has one for frivolous reasons. It is always to protect the life of the mother or in cases where the developing baby has no chance of survival. A close friend of mine was pregnant with twin girls at the same time as me. We were both so excited, until things turned bad. The week I found out one of mine wouldn't make it she also discovered that both of hers had no chance to survive. On top of it she had complications caused by Lupus that threatened her life. Her decision to abort was a difficult and painful one. But today she has a healthy baby boy and girl. When the anti-abortion crowd trots out the late term abortion thing it is so painful and cruel making mothers who already went through a devasting experience feel worse.
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)I go nearly blind with rage.
CTyankee
(63,927 posts)He is also old enough to know the horrific maiming and slaughter of women that the outlawing of abortion causes.
I'm glad he made his stupid remark, tho. That'll do wonders for his support among women...I hope we see this guy's retirement from the public spotlight very soon...he can rot in hell for all I care...
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)Who claim they were ordered to drown babies born alive in abortions to drown them in buckets.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,836 posts)I really don't think any woman would expect to have an abortion if she were 7 months pregnant, whether it was because of rape or not.
The 7 month fetus is generally viable.
FredisDead
(392 posts)nit·wit
niyad
(113,990 posts)you have demonstrated that you are completely clueless when it comes to rape.
unkachuck
(6,295 posts)....to tell a dis-honest-rape from a honest-rape....
"Its a little bit of a different story."....you just can't trust a rape?
David__77
(23,638 posts)That's my take. Very backward view of sexual abuse.
Broderick
(4,578 posts)Not to be crude or funny, but WTF.
It's surreal how people fall for this cretin. Because he likes pot? I can't fathom how people overlook his racism to begin with. Jeepers.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)Ecumenist
(6,086 posts)An "HONEST" Rape Versus a "DISHONEST" one? Is that when you're raped by a liar..What the fuck? So what if someone, let's say a GIRL is raped by a relative and forced to stay pregnant, like Jayce Lee Dugard, for instance, he wouldn't help her? You fucker!!!
Tansy_Gold
(17,893 posts)is that neither the interviewer nor the interviewee ever have to worry about getting pregnant by a rapist. They can take "the moral high ground" with no fear that they will ever find themselves in the position of having to justify acting against their holier than thou moral precepts.
What sanctimonious pieces of shit.
MichiganVote
(21,086 posts)abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)You must not have gotten the memo.
Unborn humans are ALWAYS more important than born humans. Once born, however, they cease to be important, particularly if they are brownish and born into poverty.
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)...even in cases of rape. They may be crazy as shit, but at least they're logically and intellectually consistent. I've had this argument with fundies more than once: "Wait a sec. I thought abortion was murder? So now murdering babies is sometimes okay?" Heads explode every time.
treestar
(82,383 posts)Controlling the behavior of women. If it was rape, then that's OK, murder of the fetus is OK. Suddenly it's not the human life aspect of it. So you're right, at least the fundies who say it's God's will to give birth because it's a new life are consistent. The others are not and reveal that what they really seek is giving birth as some sort of punishment (which of course the girl can be relieved of if "not guilty" of having sex).
NYC Liberal
(20,138 posts)A fetus/baby conceived from a rape is no different from one conceived from consensual sex. Biologically there is no difference. So why should "murder" be okay then?
CTyankee
(63,927 posts)pregnancy BEGINS with implantation of the fertilized egg, not fertilization. There is an astonishing failure rate on the part of Mother Nature of those eggs even making it to the point of implantation. He has to know that.
What a pandering bastid he is!
Ohio Dem
(4,357 posts)That is all.
The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)What kind of asshole comment is that? Honest rape? What does it mean? I'm not in on this hateful RW dog whistle/code word.
Liquorice
(2,066 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)endangered.
Sneaky Women! Snnnnneeeeeaky women! Tricksy! Can't be trusted, no! Can't be trusted with their own bodies, because they're snnneeeeaky! And Tricksy!
Which, I guess, is the whole point.
MH1
(17,635 posts)sakabatou
(42,204 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)Is he out of his mind?
SunsetDreams
(8,571 posts)WTF does "honest rape" even mean?
Licentiathe8th
(4 posts)And his fucking cult is filled with the most annoying, brainwashed, and fanatical supporters ever to support a presidential candidate.