GOP Lawmaker Calls Pregnancy From Rape "God's Silver Lining"

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http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gop-lawmaker-calls-pregnancy-gods-silver-lining-rape

The Missouri House of Representatives gave preliminary approval on Tuesday to a measure that would place a constitutional amendment on the state’s ballot giving full legal rights to “unborn human children at every stage of biological development.” Such personhood amendments not only aim to criminalize nearly all abortions, but also jeopardize some common forms of birth control.

The bill’s sponsor, Republican Rep. Mike Moon, previously introduced a similar measure that he called the “All Lives Matter Act” and has said he approaches the abortion issue as “a former embryo.”

Moon recently made national headlines when he called for a special legislative session to stop “the potential Islamization of Missouri.” In 2014, he joined an attempt to impeach the state’s Democratic governor, Jay Nixon, for allowing gay couples married in other states to file joint tax returns.

But Moon is far from alone. One of his fellow Republican state legislators, Rep. Tila Hubrecht, reportedly defended the personhood measure’s lack of an exception for rape survivors by saying that pregnancy can be the “silver lining” of a rape:

Democratic opponents in the House said if enshrined in the Missouri Constitution, the measure would ban abortion, including in cases of rape, incest and in which the life of the mother is at risk. Democrats also said it could bar contraception, which some Republicans disputed.

"Do you believe that it's just or compassionate to force a woman who's been raped to have the child of the man who raped her?" said Kansas City Democratic Rep. Lauren Arthur.

Dexter Republican Rep. Tila Hubrecht said she asked her doctor "to save the baby, no matter the cost" before she received an emergency cesarean section. She also said she's met people conceived by rape and that "there's a reason for their life."

"Sometimes bad things happen, and they're horrible things," she said. "But sometimes God can give us a silver lining through the birth of a child."

[widdershins]

It just floors me that these people are so out there in their own little world that they bother to make these stupid laws and amendments knowing full well they will be shot down by the courts as soon as they're enacted.  Are these people so far removed from reality that they actually say to themselves, "This could work"?

[Hydra009]

 

Between the “All Lives Matter Act”, potential Islamization of Missouri (really??), and dubious "silver lining" rhetoric, I honestly don't know where to start with this news.

I just wish Republicans were as gung ho about maintaining the rights of adult citizens as they are for the rights of blastocysts.  It's a weird sort of political ideology where Judy doesn't have the right to birth control pills or to terminate a pregnancy, but does have the right to carry her rape baby to term.  How fortunate for her to have such wise people making her decisions for her.

[stromboli]

The mindset of desert dwelling sheepherder of the Bronze Age dictates that life is important because of the dangerous conditions, and virginity is important to ensure no sexually transmitted diseases. A rape child is valuable, but loss of virginity devalues the bride exponentially. so bargaining with the rapist in that context makes a weird kind of sense. In the Bronze Age.

21st century, not so much. The mother doesn't need an unwanted infant and life isn't exactly scarce. We have the means of safely terminating pregnancy and the rapist can go to prison where he belongs. Its that "21st century" thing they haven't caught up with yet.

[aitm]

I really think many of these morons believe that abortion is wrong only in the case of white people and that is how they see it. They see the stats that whites are slowing becoming the lesser of the majority and are seeking anyway to slow the bleeding.

Show them a picture of a hundred pregnant women lined up in a street at a welfare office and tell them, those hundred babies gonna cost you 9 million over their 18 years. That money could be spent on new roads in your neighborhood. Suddenly the law changes.

[drunkenshoe]

This was brought up in the previous elections. The name was Charlie Fuqua or something like that?

Paraphrasing, he said something like this I guess:

"If a woman gets pregnant as result of rape, that cannot be considered as rape because the Lord wanted that child to be born."