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Related: About this forumThis ad could cost Scott Walker the Iowa caucuses – and much more - By Joan Walsh
Seeking womens votes in 2014, Walker claimed his abortion laws left the final decision to a woman and her doctor"JOAN WALSH
Just last week the New York Times told us that Scott Walker was toughening his anti-abortion stand to woo the powerful Christian right bloc that dominates early GOP presidential primary campaigns. He even committed to a version of controversial personhood legislation, which could outlaw some forms of birth control.
But Walkers new crusade isnt going so well. As Luke Brinker wrote here on Monday, anti-abortion advocates are aghast at a perplexing set of answers Walker gave on Fox News Sunday. The Wisconsin governor officially takes a hard line on abortion, opposing it even in cases of rape or incest. Hes signed laws tightening credentialing and hospital admitting privileges for doctors, and forcing women to undergo ultrasounds, with a written script describing the fetus and its development.
But on Sunday, the anti-abortion warrior came off as weak, even ambivalent.
Well, I think ultimately, Im pro-life because thats an unborn child, he babbled. When I think of the ultra-sound picture that Tonette, my wife, and saw of our first son, who is now going to be 21 this June, its indistinguishable not to recognize thats a human life. Thats why Im pro-life. Describing the tough anti-abortion laws he signed, Walker sounded tepid: We acted on the grounds that we have legally to be able to act under the Supreme Courts decision, um, well act that way at the federal level if we were in a position like that as well, but ultimately it is a life.
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This ad could cost Scott Walker the Iowa caucuses – and much more - By Joan Walsh (Original Post)
DonViejo
Mar 2015
OP
GusBob
(7,286 posts)1. Pander pander pander pander pander wash rinse repander,,,,,eom
brooklynite
(94,294 posts)5. ...and always remember to scratch behind the ears...
v
GeorgeGist
(25,308 posts)2. it’s indistinguishable not to recognize
this man is a dunce.
Myrina
(12,296 posts)3. He'll be happy to tell you his opinion, once the Koch brothers give it to him.
What a spineless, brainless puppet he is.
unionthug777
(740 posts)8. yes he is !!!!
I despise him so !!!
Scuba
(53,475 posts)9. Afternoon, Thug!
unionthug777
(740 posts)10. hi scuba !!!
what's shakin?
Scuba
(53,475 posts)11. Everything. I've never been so busy.
unionthug777
(740 posts)12. i hope in a good way?
did you get to Madison at all?
Scuba
(53,475 posts)13. I've been there twice in the last week. Once for protests, once for family. Part of the busy part.
unionthug777
(740 posts)14. hope everything is okay !!
went to Madison last Wednesday.
unions !!!
hue
(4,949 posts)4. What about this child?? "Integrity: The Child Scott Walker Left Behind"
http://wcmcoop.com/2012/06/02/integrity-the-child-scott-walker-left-behind/
[Editors note: What follows is one womans account of the Scott Walker she knew at Marquette University. To the extent possible we have verified its accuracy, including the accuracy of details not printed here in order to protect the identities of the people involved. All of the elements are consistent: the principals were at Marquette University when the incidents recounted here allegedly happened, and Ruth did have a baby shortly thereafter.]
Bernadette Gillick was a college freshman in 1988 when she first met Scott Walker. It was spring semester, and she had just transferred to Marquette University. She was assigned a room in ODonnell Hall (then a womens dormitory), which she shared with her new roommate, Ruth (not her real name). Ruth was dating Scott Walker, who was 20 at the time, and, according to Bernadette, Ruth was deeply in love with him.
Midway through that spring semester, Bernadette alleges, Ruth found out she was pregnant. She informed her boyfriend, Scott, and initially he was supportive. Yet that support changed to callous indifference for his girlfriends predicament after Scott informed his parents of the pregnancy.
Bernadette reports that at this point Scott began denying that he was the father of the baby, and when Ruth said she was considering an abortion, he claimed he didnt care, as he wasnt the father anyway.
Bernadette remembers being present when Ruth was dealing with the wrath of Scotts mother, who allegedly admonished Ruth for trying to ruin [her sons] reputation.
[Editors note: What follows is one womans account of the Scott Walker she knew at Marquette University. To the extent possible we have verified its accuracy, including the accuracy of details not printed here in order to protect the identities of the people involved. All of the elements are consistent: the principals were at Marquette University when the incidents recounted here allegedly happened, and Ruth did have a baby shortly thereafter.]
Bernadette Gillick was a college freshman in 1988 when she first met Scott Walker. It was spring semester, and she had just transferred to Marquette University. She was assigned a room in ODonnell Hall (then a womens dormitory), which she shared with her new roommate, Ruth (not her real name). Ruth was dating Scott Walker, who was 20 at the time, and, according to Bernadette, Ruth was deeply in love with him.
Midway through that spring semester, Bernadette alleges, Ruth found out she was pregnant. She informed her boyfriend, Scott, and initially he was supportive. Yet that support changed to callous indifference for his girlfriends predicament after Scott informed his parents of the pregnancy.
Bernadette reports that at this point Scott began denying that he was the father of the baby, and when Ruth said she was considering an abortion, he claimed he didnt care, as he wasnt the father anyway.
Bernadette remembers being present when Ruth was dealing with the wrath of Scotts mother, who allegedly admonished Ruth for trying to ruin [her sons] reputation.
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)7. Could that be the reason he "walked away" from college?
Who quits in their senior year?