There are few things more awkward and offensive than listening to
Republican candidates talk about rape and incest exemptions in abortion
laws, but Scott Walker managed to take it to the next level last night
when he stated that he would rather let a grown woman die than abort an
undeveloped fetus.During the Republican 'debates', Megyn Kelly noted that Walker recently
signed an abortion bill that had exceptions for the mother’s life, but
that he had objected to it, and also remarks that 83% of Americans are
in favor of a rape and incest exemption in anti-abortion bills. He
dodges the answer “I believe that that is an unborn child has a right to
be protected,” and then celebrates the fact that he defunded Planned
Parenthood in Wisconsin several years ago, putting the health of his
female constituents at risk.
Never mind the fact that four years ago, Walker said he believed the
choice was between a woman and her doctor. Rubio also forgot that
he co-sponsored a bill that similarly had such exemptions. The ramping
up of the Republican cabal’s war on women is a disgusting affront to the rights of
women to be healthy and to have agency over their own bodies, to make
their own choices. Nothing was more offensive last night than watching
ten old white men talk about women’s bodies in such disrespectful terms.
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