The GOP’s draft language — which just this morning was approved by committee — will call for a constitutional ban on all abortions, even in the case of rape or incest. The plank will be voted on by Republican National Committee (RNC) members at the convention, August 27-30.
The Huffington Post offered this image (right) as their front page, in comment. It’s being circulated widely via social media.
CNN Radio reporter Lisa Desjardins just stated via Twitter:
GOP ABORTION PLATFORM: As passed out of committee just now, opposes abortion and does not include exception for rape victims.
#tcot#tlot— Lisa Desjardins (@LisaDCNN) August 21, 2012
Slate political reporter and MSNBC contributor Dave Weigel noted, “Typically, the RNC can add a ‘ban all abortions’ platform plank and nobody notices. Oh, Todd Akin…”
Yesterday, both Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan stated they support abortion in the case of rape.
“The Republican Party is once again set to enshrine into its official platform support for ‘a human life amendment’ to the Constitution that would outlaw abortion without making explicit exemptions for rape or incest, according to draft language of the platform obtained exclusively by CNN late Monday,” CNN reported late last night:
“Faithful to the ‘self-evident’ truths enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, we assert the sanctity of human life and affirm that the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed,” the draft platform declares. “We support a human life amendment to the Constitution and endorse legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment’s protections apply to unborn children.”
The party will reaffirm its opposition to federally-funded embryonic stem cell research and demand that the government “not fund or subsidize health care which includes abortion coverage.”
Republicans have also inserted a “salute” to states pushing “informed consent” laws – an apparent reference to ultrasound bills that have moved through some state legislatures – “mandatory waiting periods prior to an abortion, and health-protective clinic regulation.”
The document, crafted Monday in a subcommittee meeting of the Republican Party’s official platform committee in Tampa, is being closely guarded by party officials but was provided to CNN by a Republican source here.
The source cautioned that the statement of principle is still in draft form and must be approved by the full platform committee on Tuesday and by delegates to the Republican National Convention next week.
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The GOP is full of ignorant people whose belief systems are fucked beyond repair.
Victims of rape pregnancies should not commit the sin of abortion. They must follow the Lords wishes and give birth to a holy child. The rapist is the sinner; he should come forward and offer to pay child support. The mother has a choice of accepting the money or calling the cops.
No, the woman has more choices than those. She can have the abortion and call the cops to get that douche bag put behind bars. The planet is overpopulated and our species is facing extinction if we continue to grow as fast as we currently are growing. The last thing we need is unwanted offspring carrying the genes of a rapist. Your god doesn't exist. "Sin" is a meaningless concept.
Each year thousands of pregnant women enter emergency rooms with claims of being raped by an unknown predator. Maternity ward services are then provided without charge. When the scammer finally arrives at home, welfare checks, food stamps, and Medicaid cards are in the mailbox. After the checks are cashed she and her lovers buy some dynamite weed and party until dawn. Hospital workers call it illegitimate rape, and a rip off of the system.
Selected planks from the GOP's 2012 platform:
- Women who use birth control are sluts.
- A chicken in every pot, and a spy-cam in every uterus.
- Abortions performed in certified medical clinics must be banned, no matter the circumstances of the pregnancy. Much better to have said procedure performed with a wire coat hanger in a back alley, or with a chemical coat hanger provided by a non-accredited physician in a dingy third world doctor's office.
The 2012 Republican Party platform is so extreme, they might as well convert it into a gallows, since the party leaders seem to be compelled to politically hang themselves.
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