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Title: Force Women To Bear Rapists’ Babies, Say Multiple GOP Candidates
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RAWSTORY
URL Source: http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0806/maddow-gop-abortion-extremism/
Published: Aug 6, 2010
Author: By David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Post Date: 2010-08-06 19:20:26 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 5489
Comments: 8
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow has been researching the positions on abortion held by current Republican candidates and believes that, overall, they are far more extreme than in any previous election year. She also wonders why the Democratic Party hasn't made an issue of this extremism. "The Republican Party is, without actually talking about it, this year nominating a group of candidates for top-of-the-ticket races that are more extreme on the issue of abortion than any other slate of top-of-the-ticket candidates in any other year," Maddow stated on Thursday. She pointed to several GOP Senatorial candidates or front-runners who have declared that they oppose a right to abortion even in cases of rape or incest, including Nevada's Sharron Angle, Kentucky's Rand Paul, and Colorado's Ken Buck. According to Maddow, these three "small government conservatives" all believe "that government should be big enough that it can monitor every pregnancy in the country to ensure that every single woman who becomes pregnant is forced by the government to carry that pregnancy to term. ... This is a position that was beyond the pale even in fringe anti-abortion politics not very many years ago, but apparently those days are over." "They're not trying to run on this as a national issue," Maddow said of the Republicans. "I can understand why. But maybe Democrats should be making this a national issue." She then turned to political scientist Melissa Harris-Lacewell, asking, "How did even anti-abortion politics in mainstream electoral politics get so fringe-y?" "We're in a period of deep economic anxiety," Harris-Lacewell replied, suggesting that people are trying to assert control over their own lives by controlling women's reproduction. She also pointed to racially-based fear of illegal immigrants, which leads some people to fear that "on one hand ... there's a population that is over-reproducing. ... On the other hand, there's an anxiety about wanting, particularly, middle-class white women to produce more babies ... to counteract all of these bad anchor babies." "Why do you think the Democrats have been gun-shy, so far, about making an issue of this?" Maddow asked. Harris-Lacewell suggested that it's difficult "to have the conversation [with those who believe abortion is murder] because there's not a lot of common ground." She concluded, however, that "Democrats just haven't done a very good job about redefining ethical questions and normative questions from a progressive agenda perspective. So they continue to kind of cede this ground to conservatives." This video is from MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show, broadcast Aug. 5, 2010. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy This video is from MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show, broadcast Aug. 5, 2010. V
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
Unless they might grow up to be Obama or his wife. Then it's ok to kill them. See Stone, et al, at www.libertysflame.com.
"How many confirmed NV Mig kills do YOU have general? I only have three." - Mad Dog, the syphilitic psychopath
Lol Rachel Maddow. She couldn't get a man so she uses a cucumber. What an ugly stupid woman.
Back on topic, do you believe women should be forced to bear a rapists baby?
Never swear "allegiance" to anything other than the 'right to change your mind'!
I don't think the baby did the crime. I think it would be best if the baby was allowed to live. Why should a baby die? But if a woman didn't make the decision to get pregnant. I could see society possibly giving her that bad option. But there would have to be a conviction for rape and solid evidence beforehand. But let me stress. The best option is to have he woman carry the baby.
Thanks for the direct response. I consider myself pro-life but do allow choice in the matter of rape and incest.
Never swear "allegiance" to anything other than the 'right to change your mind'!
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Meet the new elephant boss The last gasp of a dying Republic is a "living, breathing Constitution."
Isn't it funny that liberals want to kill babies yet spare the rapist the death penalty??
Being a Democratic shill means you check your humanity at the door.
I consider myself pro-life but do allow choice in the matter of rape and incest. Some call you a liberal. I don't see you that way.
#2. To: Brian S (#0)
#3. To: A K A Stone (#2)
#4. To: Brian S (#3)
Back on topic, do you believe women should be forced to bear a rapists baby?
#5. To: A K A Stone (#4)
#6. To: Brian S (#0)
But maybe Democrats should be making this a national issue."
Same as the old jackass boss
#7. To: A K A Stone (#2)
Lol Rachel Maddow. She couldn't get a man so she uses a cucumber. What an ugly stupid woman.
#8. To: Brian S (#5)
Thanks for the direct response.
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