{"id":3019,"date":"2010-10-02T23:06:45","date_gmt":"2010-10-03T06:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3019"},"modified":"2010-10-02T23:08:12","modified_gmt":"2010-10-03T06:08:12","slug":"protect-womens-rights-from-republican-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/02\/protect-womens-rights-from-republican-rape\/","title":{"rendered":"Protect Women’s Rights from Republican Rape"},"content":{"rendered":"

As full disclosure, I do not believe in abortion as birth control.\u00a0 I think it\u2019s a damn lousy choice.\u00a0 In my ideal world, there would be no abortion.\u00a0 However, we do not live in my ideal world.\u00a0 Sometimes through making dysfunctional choices, and sometimes through circumstances beyond their control, women find themselves in situations where an abortion is the best choice among the available choices that are even lousier.\u00a0 A woman pregnant with a rapist\u2019s child is such a situation.\u00a0 But a significant set of the Republican party does not see it that way at all.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"3prochoice\" The GOP has always pandered to the right-wing base by promising to strip women of the right to control their own bodies<\/strong>. In the interest of not alienating sane people though, many Republican lawmakers make an exception in cases of incest and rape, and when a mother’s life is in danger.<\/p>\n

But a group of ultra-conservative Republican Senate candidates — recently propelled to victory in the primaries by Tea Party groups who claim to oppose government intrusion into people’s lives — want the government to force women to carry fetuses to term, even in cases of incest or rape<\/strong>. Rachel Maddow, in her show on Wednesday night, called this group the “Bear Your Rapist’s Baby Caucus.” According to Raw Story<\/a>, at least 78 GOP candidates for the House would qualify for this extreme voting bloc.<\/p>\n

Here are five freedom lovers who think they should get to decide what a rape victim does with her body:<\/p>\n

1. Rand Paul (Kentucky)…<\/strong><\/p>\n

2. Christine O’Donnell (Delaware)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

3. Sharron Angle (Nevada)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

4. Ken Buck (Colorado)…<\/strong><\/p>\n

5. Joe Miller (Alaska)…<\/strong><\/p>\n

…In addition to all anti-abortion extremists running for Senate on the GOP ticket, a multitude of House candidates also want abortion outlawed even if the pregnancy is the result of incest or rape. Amanda Terkel reported<\/a> that the Republican National Coalition for Life has endorsed 63 House candidates who are pro-life \u201cwithout discrimination.\u201d Dianne Edmondson, executive director of the organization, told Terkel that there are more candidates against abortion with no exceptions in this election cycle<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The article includes considerable additional documentation, so I encourage you to click through to it.<\/span><\/p>\n

I also, believe that my own beliefs make no difference whatsoever, as it is highly unlikely that I will ever be pregnant.\u00a0 Therefore, it is not my choice to make.\u00a0 I have absolutely no right to tell a woman what to do with her own body.\u00a0 Such choices must be preserved for individual women themselves.\u00a0 It must remain a woman\u2019s right to choose.<\/span><\/p>\n

Isn\u2019t it ironic that the party that claims to believe in small, unobtrusive government, when it comes to protecting Americans through regulation of criminal corporations, wants to be Big Brother in the bedroom and in the doctor\u2019s office?<\/span><\/p>\n

If Republicans ever gain power again, they will rape women\u2019s rights.\u00a0 Count on it.\u00a0 It\u2019s up to you to stop them.\u00a0 Get out and vote.\u00a0 Treat your voting booth like a car.\u00a0 Put it in D, not R, unless you want to go backwards.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As full disclosure, I do not believe in abortion as birth control.\u00a0 I think it\u2019s a damn lousy choice.\u00a0 In my ideal world, there would be no abortion.\u00a0 However, we do not live in my ideal world.\u00a0 Sometimes through making dysfunctional choices, and sometimes through circumstances beyond their control, women find themselves in situations where […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}