Montana gubernatorial candidate compares getting an abortion to taking aspirin

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Raw Story

Montana gubernatorial candidate compares getting an abortion to taking aspirin
By Arturo Garcia
Friday, September 21, 2012 21:04 EDT


The Republican candidate in the Montana governor’s race likened the decision to get an abortion to taking an aspirin during the state’s first gubernatorial debate earlier this week.

“You can’t give a child an aspirin in school, but you can refer people to have an abortion without parental consent, and that’s wrong,” former state Rep. Rick Hill (R) said Wednesday night while expressing support for a referendum on the state ballot this November that would require women under 18 to get parental consent before having an abortion.

Hill’s opponent, Democratic state attorney general Steve Bullock, has opposed the referendum.

“Complicated, difficult and incredibly personal decisions like this should not be made by the government,” Bullock told The Billings Gazette earlier this year. “They should be made by a woman, in consultation with her family, her doctor and her faith. Montanans recognize and cherish an individual right of privacy — a change recognized under the U.S. Constitution and explicitly enshrined in Montana’s Constitution.”


Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/09/21/montana-gubernatorial-candidate-compares-getting-an-abortion-to-taking-aspirin/

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

1. I love and know Steve Bullock! I'm praying that he wins. It's getting closer for some reason.

[socialindependocrat]

2. Arturo Garcia needs to get his act together - He writes headlines like a repuke!

The title is not quite accurate but wells up a lot of anger.

This is something that FOX would write.

Maybe he has a Repuke editor who made him use it.

All I know is there is a stink in there somewhere

IMHFO

[eggplant]

3. Heh. Nobody is supposed to give kids aspirin.

Does nobody read labels anymore?

[jmowreader]

4. This is the difference, Mr. Hill

Imagine your daughter came to you and said, 'I have a headache."

How would you feel?

What would you do?

Now imagine she came to you and said, "I'm pregnant."

[defacto7]

5. He'd give her an aspirin.

[jmowreader]

7. You're supposed to hold it between your knees

He'd probably make her drop out of school to teach her a lesson, like they did in the good old days.

Doesn't Billy Joel have a song that says, "the good old days weren't all that good"?

[4lbs]

6. Why is it always stupid-assed men making these dumbass remarks?

I've never once heard a woman refer to abortions this way, and forcible rape, etc.

But no, it's always stupid, ignorant, white men, who will never have to make this agonizing decision.

I apologize for my gender.

[defacto7]

8. You are right for the most part, but there are a few around...

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/09/20/881971/new-mexico-gov-forcible-rape/

Makes one wonder why? How can politics be that potent to cause women to make the same unreasonable remarks? It IS mostly men, but there are many more examples of women saying the same thing.