GOP Senate Candidate Supports Life Sentences For Rape Victims Who Obtain Abortions

[DonRedwood]

If you have an abortion to save your life you should spend the rest of your life in jail.

Any questions? (and don't go miscarrying either...I'm sure they would be after you soon enough for that too).

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/09/04/790351/gop-senate-candidate-supported-life-sentences-for-rape-victims-who-obtain-abortions/

Rep. Rick Berg (R-ND), the candidate for Senate from North Dakota, once voted for a bill that would have made any woman who obtained an abortion guilty of a homicide crime — even if it were in the case of rape or incest. Indeed, the bill Berg supported does not even contain an explicit exception if an abortion is necessary to save the woman’s life.
In 2007, Berg was among the small number of state representatives in the North Dakota House who supported the measure. It also would have imposed penalties on doctors and anyone else who “aids, abets, facilitates, solicits, or incites” a person into an abortion:
A new section to chapter 12.1-16 of the North Dakota Century Code is created and enacted as follows:
Intentional termination of human life – Preborn children. A person is guilty of a class AA felony if the person intentionally destroys or terminates the life of a preborn child. A person that knowingly administers to, prescribes for, procures for, or sells to any pregnant individual any medicine, drug, device, or other substance with the specific intent of causing or abetting the termination of a preborn child is guilty of a class AA felony. A person that intentionally or knowingly aids, abets, facilitates, solicits, or incites a person to intentionally destroy or terminate the life of a preborn child is guilt of a class C felony. For purposes of this section, “preborn child” includes a human being from the moment of fertilization until the moment of birth.

[rurallib]

1. perhaps there should be a companion bill

to give the impregnator life for conception without knowing if the child would be carried to term.
After all it takes two to make a baby. Both should be punished if punishment is called for.

[ananda]

2. I bet he could find a friend in Ted Cruz from Texas too.

Ugghh

[DonRedwood]

5. this guy needs to be in the headlines ala Akin

[standingtall]

3. So what they going to do with their

anti-abortion hero Alberta King? The double abortionist. If they really believe abortion is murder.Last time I checked there was no statue of limitations on murder. She should go to jail for the rest of her live instead of making appearance on fox news. If that's what the wing nuts really believe. Maybe even the death penalty sense wing nuts like that so much.

[DonRedwood]

6. santorum's wife would be in jail....

[HopeHoops]

4. Being a rape victim is already a life sentence - a worse one without the abortion.

[Odin2005]

7. Western NoDak is full of RW douchebags.

[DonRedwood]

11. yeah...but his senate vote effects you and me both

[Initech]

8. What the hell is wrong with these assholes? How are they any different than the Taliban?

[riderinthestorm]

9. Careful, there are DUers who also believe like Rep Berg, that anyone who has an abortion

for any reason, has committed homicide and should go to prison for life (cuz ya know, they really are COMPLETELY pro-life so they don't believe in the death penalty).

[MrSlayer]

10. Our secular law is the only thing holding them back from stonings and honor rapes.

I'm not even kidding, these people are as insane as the primitive Muslims they so decry. Just sick.

[indepat]

12. What a brainless warped f*ck-head

[ThatsMyBarack]

13. !