Rick Perry: Ban All Abortion

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The Transformation of Rick has led him to declare that abortion should be outlawed even in cases of rape, incest, or when the mother's life is at stake.

The issue of Perry's abortion beliefs was raised by an area pastor who said Perry told him a month ago that he was in favor of abortion in cases of rape and incest but was otherwise opposed.

"About a week ago you signed the Personhood USA pledge which in it states that abortion and the innocent killing of life should always be prohibited," said Joshua Verwers, a pastor at Full Faith Christian.

Am I the only one wondering what is the innocent killing of life?
 
You know, I look at Perry, Romney, Newt etc... and I ask myself if there is ANY position that they will not take if they think it would get them their party's nomination.
 
I look at that Trinity as having distinct reasons for their political hypocrisy.

Perry - he's, and let's be brutally blunt, just too stupid to play the game adeptly. He probably recites what his handlers tell him to recite. And that's when he can remember what his handlers told him.

Gingrich - he's got political AD/HD, he just can't help himself from mouthing off disparate opinions ala a whirling dervish.

Romney - he knows he's being a flip-flopper, but also knows that GOP primary voters demand that he dance to their tune. I would prefer that Romney defend his prior legislative actions, but he would be crucified by the fringe right, who happen to make up a disproportionate part of the primary/caucus voters.
 
Perry's stance appears to be part and parcel of some GOP candidates voicing their support for "Fetal Personhood" laws.

Did they not learn anything from Mississippi?
 
And as for RP being against abortion in the case of rape, incest, or the mother's life being in danger ... well, you had all three in a case in Brazil a couple years ago. I'd like to know how RP would act on this. Force the kid to have the babies & die?

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Doctors terminate an estimated one million pregnancies in Brazil each year. The poor take home-made drug concoctions or are forced into clandestine clinics, while the better off are treated by qualified doctors known to anyone with money.

That secrecy has a price. More than 200,000 women are treated in public hospitals for complications arising from illegal abortions each year, according to health ministry figures.


For some of us, this sounds eerily similar to the US pre-Roe. Roe v. Wade, btw, was not criticized by the relgious groups at the time. That came later. As did the vocal support of creationism and the desire to teach that crap in public schools as science.

Oh, how the GOP has fallen.
 
The Iowa caucuses are a pathetic attempt by a small, insignificant state to draw attention to itself. Unfortunately, it works. I would support a law requiring all federal elections to be held on the same day nationwide.
 
IF you're against abortion (and I'm not) on grounds that it's murder, it would be much more morally consistent to say you're against abortion across the board.

By making the "rape and incest" exceptions, you're saying that it's murder, UNLESS there was a preceding rape, and then it's not murder anymore? That makes no sense.
 
I agree completely with the post above. I am pro-choice, but if I thought abortion was the murder of a human, I don't know what difference it would make how the human was created.
 
IF you're against abortion (and I'm not) on grounds that it's murder, it would be much more morally consistent to say you're against abortion across the board.

Not really. Definitely not in the case of when a mother's life is at severe risk.
 
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