The point he was making is that women don’t seek late term abortions because they were raped. You don’t get raped and then decide 6 months later that you don’t want it anymore.
My aunt, a rather large, doughy woman, was not aware of her last pregnancy until after 20 weeks. I guess she must have had irregular periods or something. And if a woman is being hassled by family who want her to carry through, it might be emotionally difficult for her to reach a decision.
Maybe *you *don’t, no. But you’ve never been in that position, have you?
I get it, the idea is to have no restrictions at all.
Says who? Is that just more conservative “common sense”?
Walker’s statement was pretty clear, if clumsy: Women who are raped worry about pregnancy in the early months, not when they are about to pop.
Where are you getting this inside knowledge of what rape victims are thinking? And just to be clear, 20 weeks is not “about to pop”; a normal pregnancy is 39 weeks, so it is just over half way.
The point that you miss is that already I have seen where is that going, other efforts at more draconian laws made by the Republicans there and elsewhere are geared to force women to be denied an abortion until they demonstrate to authorities or in a court of law that a rape took place, or to remove the few remaining abortion clinics causing a delay because of limited access. And to put more delays on top of more delays.
How long those lawmakers expect those stalling tactics to last? They are trying to delay abortions long enough to then allow slimy guys like Scott Walker to then completely stop a raped woman from getting that abortion.
What a racket.
To be fair to adaher, he’s not making claims about what women think, just about what Scott Walker meant.
Where Scott Walker gets his inside knowledge of what rape victims are thinking, and where adaher gets his inside knowledge of Scott Walker, are yet to be answered.
Uh…that’s not always the case. There’s a story about George Tiller (who specialized in very late-term abortions for medical reasons) turning away a young woman who wanted an abortion because (she said) she’d been raped, but hadn’t had one before too late in pregnancy to get one legally.
That said, a 20-week ban like Walker’s talking about isn’t all that different from present law on the matter, and a good deal more liberal than laws in Western Europe. So while I am so strongly personally opposed to the anti-birth-control, anti-women’s-health-care, “pro-life” lobby that in his shoes I’d consider vetoing it out of spite, I can’t say I’m terribly torn up about it.
Oh, and I haven’t kept up with technological developments, but Wikipedia doesn’t think much of the rate of viability before 25 weeks, and considers 23 weeks to have about the barest chance of survival for a fetus. I was remembering 22 weeks for some reason. Yeah, that ban sounds like posturing to possibly be struck down by the courts.
Yes.
Another example of “I don’t know that this guy is a Republican but…”
I realize you’re kind of stupid and therefore I have no expectation of a thoughtful answer, but what would be wrong with no restrictions at all (beyond normal medical regulations - I shouldn’t have to specify this but after all you are kind of stupid)? What is the worst you think will happen?
Well, the Supremes did put the kibosh on abortions in the last trimester. Didn’t they.
This is kind of muddled, so I cannot tell whether it is stupid or the other thing: Alabama state senate votes (22-3) to eliminate all marriage licensing and replace them with notarized contracts.
As much as it looks like throwing up the hands and stomping off in a huff, it may be the trend. Alabama as trendsetters. Hurts my head.
One of the reviewers of The True Origins of Man on Amazon says it best:
A unique theory proposed by Smith involves Y~~H creating Adam and Eve in the image of G-d, i. e., albinos. Sibling rivalry being what it was, according to Smith, eventually lead to Cain banging a gorilla. I didn’t get far enough in my reading to find out if Smith thought it to be common-law marriage or devolving into a battle over child support.
The result of this primeval “primating” was heretofore unknown pigmentation of the offspring’s skin. Smith’s deep understanding of genetics provides an irrefutable conclusion: the darker one’s skin is, the more residual gorilla DNA a person has. Feel free to pick the continent where these ancestors of Cain-Gorilla now reside.
(Some reporter should pose the Cain-gorilla love story as a “Bible-based” science question to the GOP clown college candidates; with a followup questions about whether or not it constitutes bestiality for the gorilla (Get your stinking hands off of me, you damn, dirty homo sapien!)).
Smith makes use of the GOP scientific method. A demonstrably faster and more economical approach to fact-finding than the traditional scientific method. This incredible speed is achieved by making a hypothesis and then immediately jumping to a ideologically approved conclusion, with absolutely no supporting evidence.
Abortion of viable babies?
"Have you ever had something happen that was so racist, you didn’t even get mad, you were just like “Goddamn, that was… That was racist !” ? I mean, so blatant you’re just like “Wow.” – Dave Chappelle
That’s it? I was hoping for at least a “social upheaval” or “it becoming okay to hunt toddlers for sport.”