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RandySF

(57,581 posts)
Sun Nov 29, 2015, 01:48 PM Nov 2015

Republicans' Playbook on Women Gets Even Scarier

Last week, Ted Cruz promoted the endorsement of Troy Newman, an anti-choice leader who has gone so far as to say that a perfectly biblical society would execute its abortion providers.

Let that sink in for a moment.

Ted Cruz is so thrilled that someone who wants abortion providers to be killed is supporting him that he actually sent out a press release to celebrate the endorsement. Is that what this Republican primary has come to? Presidential candidates applauding -- not denouncing -- these radically extreme positions?

Regardless of one's view on abortion rights, I would hope we can all agree that abortion providers do not deserve to be put to death for their entirely legal work. For a presidential candidate to not immediately distance himself from an endorsement from someone like Newman -- and instead to actively promote it -- is horrifying.

Sadly, though, it's indicative of just how extreme this year's Republican presidential primary has become. All of the GOP candidates have been fighting over who can be the most anti-choice, who can most restrict a woman's ability to make her own decisions.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathleen-turner/republicans-playbook-on-w_b_8641604.html

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randys1

(16,286 posts)
1. The GOP now officially supports murder of doctors and ALL Gay people. And from what I can tell
Sun Nov 29, 2015, 01:54 PM
Nov 2015

nobody cares.

What the FUCK!

treestar

(82,383 posts)
2. Doesn't look like there was ever a death penalty
Sun Nov 29, 2015, 01:58 PM
Nov 2015
Anti-abortion statutes began to appear in the United States from the 1820s. In 1821, a Connecticut law targeted apothecaries who sold poisons to women for purposes of abortion; and New York made post-quickening abortions a felony and pre-quickening abortions a misdemeanor eight years later.[61] Criminalization accelerated from the late 1860s, through the efforts of concerned legislators, doctors, and the American Medical Association.[62] In 1873, the Comstock Law prohibited any methods of production or publication of information pertaining to the procurement of abortion, the prevention of conception and the prevention of venereal disease, even to students of medicine.[63] By 1909 the penalty for violating these laws became a $5000 fine and up to five years imprisonment. By 1910 nearly every state had anti abortion laws. [64]


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_abortion#Greco-Roman_world

Making this position sound all the more extreme.

TexasBushwhacker

(20,043 posts)
5. It was a death penalty crime in NAZI occupied France
Sun Nov 29, 2015, 02:42 PM
Nov 2015

In fact, the last woman to get the guillotine was Marie-Louis Giraud, who was convicted of performing 27 abortions. Many patients we were women raped by Nazi soldiers.

2naSalit

(86,031 posts)
6. Perhaps it's time
Sun Nov 29, 2015, 03:46 PM
Nov 2015

to revoke his citizenship due to his penchant for inciting terrorism among the society and within government. This guy is dangerous and should be cast out of our country since he seems hell bent on destroying it.

malaise

(267,784 posts)
7. That's precisely why he was the first to condemn
Sun Nov 29, 2015, 04:26 PM
Nov 2015

the attack which he supported a few days before.

We have a saying here - fling a stone in a hog pen -who bawls first get lick.

The media know they are also complicit

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