Over 100 GOP candidates support forcing women to be pregnant even in cases of rape and incest...

[cynatnite]

Today I discovered a link to the Republican National Coalition for Life PAC, where they rate GOP candidates on their anti-abortion purity, and my jaw is on the floor at how many of these candidates support the cruelest and most extreme anti-abortion positions — forcing a woman to give birth to a rapist’s baby, even if the rapist is her father.

By the sheer number of these people, it looks like there’s going to be a very big push to make abortion flat-out illegal in all cases, coming soon. If I’m reading the page correctly, 112 of the GOP candidates in this election support outright bans on abortion

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/37286_112_GOP_Candidates_Support_Forcing_Women_to_Bear_Rapists_Babies

Here is the link...

http://www.rnclife.org/pac/2010_Primary_PAC_Report.html

[AC_Mem]

1. What is wrong with these people?

My body, my choice!

Your body, YOUR CHOICE!

[Odin2005]

2. GOP: The Rapist Party.

[sakabatou]

3. GOP: Proudly marching backgrounds

[JaneQPublic]

4. These types are a different kind of "Pro-Choice."

They are pro-choice for any rapist to choose any woman he wants to give birth to his baby.

Any 12-year-old; Any invalid; Anyone's wife; Anyone's daughter.

He would have the choice of any woman he wants, and she would have no choice but to bear his child.

And now that some conservatives of this ilk are now saying that some forms of birth control, such as the pill, are also abortion, they would also eliminate these contraception methods as a barrier to the rapist's right to choose.

[Shallah Kali]

5. Politicians after Nicolae Ceausecu's diseased heart. Can't wait for the Monthly Menstrual Inspection

http://www.ceausescu.org/ceausescu_texts/overplanned_parenthood.htm

Ceausescu made mockery of family planning. He forbade sex education. Books on human sexuality and reproduction were classified as "state secrets," to be used only as medical textbooks. With contraception banned, Romanians had to smuggle in condoms and birth-control pills. Though strictly illegal, abortions remained a widespread birth-control measure of last resort. Nationwide, Western sources estimate, 60 percent of all pregnancies ended in abortion or miscarriage.

The government's enforcement techniques were as bad as the law. Women under the age of 45 were rounded up at their workplaces every one to three months and taken to clinics, where they were examined for signs of pregnancy, often in the presence of government agents - dubbed the "menstrual police" by some Romanians. A pregnant woman who failed to "produce" a baby at the proper time could expect to be summoned for questioning. Women who miscarried were suspected of arranging an abortion. Some doctors resorted for forging statistics. "If a child died in our district, we lost 10 to 25 percent of our salary," says Dr. Geta Stanescu of Bucharest. "But it wasn't our fault: we had no medicine or milk, and the families were poor."

Abortion was legal in some cases: if a woman was over 40, if she already had four children, if her life was in danger - or, in practice, if she had Communist Party connections. Otherwise, illegal abortions cost from two to four months' wages. If something went wrong, the legal consequences were enough to deter many women from seeking timely medical help. "Usually women were so terrified to come to the hospital that by the time we saw them it was too late," says Dr. Anca. "Often they died at home." No one knows how many women died from these back-alley abortions.

"Celibacy tax": A woman didn't have to be pregnant to come under scrutiny. In 1986 members of the Communist youth group were sent to quiz citizens about their sex lives. "How often do you have sexual intercourse?" the questionnaire read. "Why have you failed to conceive?" Women who did not have children, even if they could not, paid a "celibacy tax" of up to 10 percent of their monthly salaries.

[opihimoimoi]

6. Why do the GOPers LOVE MISERY....? Why do they HATE Pregnant women.?

[provis99]

7. well why don't the Democrats roll this into a slogan?

"Republicans force rape victims to become pregnant"

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