Texas Gov. Abbott defends new abortion law, vows to 'eliminate all rapists'
Source: NBC News through AOL
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott defended the state's restrictive new abortion law Tuesday, saying it doesn't force victims of rape to give birth and vowing to "eliminate all rapists."
Abbott, a Republican, took questions from reporters Tuesday morning after an event at which he signed a sweeping election bill into law. Asked whether the abortion law would force rape victims to give birth, he said: "It doesn't require that at all, obviously. It provides at least six weeks for a person to get an abortion."
The law, known as Senate Bill 8, went into effect last Wednesday after the Supreme Court didn't act to block it. It bans an abortion once fetal cardiac activity can be detected, which can be as early as six weeks into a pregnancy, before many people are even aware that they are pregnant. Because pregnancy is measured from the first day of the last menstrual cycle about two weeks before conception victims of sexual assault have no more than four weeks to obtain abortions under the new law.
"Rape is a crime, and Texas will work tirelessly to make sure that we eliminate all rapists from the streets of Texas," said Abbott, who added, "There are services available to support victims of rape in the state to make sure that anybody who's victimized will get the support they need."
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These are the hills the GOP wants to die on? COVID, voting, and abortion. As I ask on the campaign trail, how do fighting mask/vaccine, restricting voting, and punishing choice put food on the table?
keithbvadu2
(36,991 posts)What actions will you take to 'eliminate all rapists'?
Whatever you are doing now is not working.
BradAllison
(1,879 posts)That's how Texas does things.
MFM008
(19,827 posts)Rape has been here as long as there have been people alive and Texas is going to stop it...........
OAITW r.2.0
(24,699 posts)Glad I am not bringing up kids in Texas.....
monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)LeftInTX
(25,681 posts)His supporters are ignorant...Cue to Right to Life crowd, "All hail Greg Abbott"
OAITW r.2.0
(24,699 posts)Between Covid and the male ignorant sweet spot....please carry this policy out.
rambler_american
(790 posts)If you can eliminate all rapists why in the actual fuck haven't you done already?
Grokenstein
(5,729 posts)...it's because they won't let him arrest all the immigrants and put them in death camps...yet.
Then all the liberals.
Then...
OldBaldy1701E
(5,190 posts)BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Is too ridiculous to be real. He would be unbelievable as a cartoon villain but as a Governor, hes complete and total gobscheit.
underpants
(182,970 posts)Gov Abbott, you arent going to get the nomination.
iluvtennis
(19,891 posts)he said, "It provides at least six weeks for a person to get an abortion". For a "person" to get an abortion - what "person". Per my knowledge, only a woman with a uterus can get pregnant.
And "six weeks", what a joke. Women's bodies aren't well oil machines that work on precision wrt ovulation cycles. Sometimes you're late due illness, stress, fatigue, etc -- not because you're pregnant. Saying any woman would know within 6 weeks is a false hypothesis.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,699 posts)Weekly Pregnancy tests for all females, aged 12-55. Gotta protect those blastocysts!
iluvtennis
(19,891 posts)underpants
(182,970 posts)Like theres no struggle at all. Six weeks? What like a reservation at a really great restaurant? Your standing appointment at the hair salon?
iluvtennis
(19,891 posts)LymphocyteLover
(5,662 posts)they are traumatized by fucking rape for fuck's sake, fuck this Abbott fuck.
Whatthe_Firetruck
(558 posts)...can have uteri also.
robbob
(3,539 posts)It does NOT provide at least six weeks. The bill specifically provides at most six weeks. The lazy press should have called him out on that.
iluvtennis
(19,891 posts)yaesu
(8,020 posts)WhoWoodaKnew
(847 posts)monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)Whatthe_Firetruck
(558 posts)...redefining 'rapists' as only those men who shout "I'M RAPING YOU!" three times, like Sheldon Cooper knocking on a door.
AZLD4Candidate
(5,830 posts)As he forcibly spreads her legs, beating her while she's kicking and scream, "STOP RESISTING!" Then he'll claim "she was doing for my penis."
Or else to quote Eminem, he'll claim "she tripped, fell, landed on his (redacted)."
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,752 posts)LiberatedUSA
(1,666 posts)A rapist comes walking along, sees a woman he wants to shame and rapes her then and there?
I know a rape victim. Her husbands friend was over at her house one day, when they were alone, and raped her.
That is how rape goes down you stupid fuck. They arent walking around on the streets looking to drag women down alleys.
ouija
(398 posts)Rapists practiced abstinence.
Lonestarblue
(10,125 posts)When youre the governor, its easy to hide some statistics. Rapes in Texas will start declining very soon. Most police officers in Texas, especially outside the big cities, are rabid Republicans. They can make the process of reporting rape even more onerous than it already is so that women stop bothering. Already, there is an enormous backlog of rape kits never tested by police sitting on the shelves of police departments around the state.
By the time next years election rolls around, I predict at least a 50% decline in rapes in this state, without a single change happening. Republicans dont have to make good on their promises, they just have to tell their voters they have succeeded. And, voila, it works and they get the vote.
Paladin
(28,280 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,228 posts)Why is "eliminating rapes" just now a priority?