ONCE AGAIN, FOR THE GOP, ABORTION IS A KEY ISSUE

…Senator Marco Rubio: a strong supporter of anti-abortion, with no exceptions

 

Being “Pro-Life” is more than being anti-abortion.

With all the brouhaha about “The Donald” being against women, and with his latest tiff with FOX’s Megyn Kelly, the old subject that has once again risen to the top for the GOP is "abortion".

Since most of the many 2016 Republican candidates are scared to directly take on The Donald; since none will address the nation’s income inequality or the raising of the minimum wage; other than immigration, lowering taxes on the wealthy and repealing Obamacare, they are now left with their old anti-abortion bill-of-goods.  That’s especially the case since the latest cause for their “War On Women” again includes de-funding Planned Parenthood.  An organization that is currently the only source of affordable women’s health care and contraceptives for millions of American women.

But now it’s not just about being anti-abortion.  In the past, it was totally acceptable to be “Pro-Life”, by saying abortion is a no-no, but you could have exceptions for rape and incest, or to save the life of the mother.  Now the right-wing’s focus is that you are not really “Pro-Life” unless you are against all abortions with no exceptions for rape, incest or even to save the life of the mother.  (Sorry, all you Republican mom’s.)

Today, if you check out the 2016 Republican candidates, virtually all of them are against abortion with no exceptions for anything, and they all want to de-fund Planned Parenthood.

In the first 2016 Republican debate on FOX, Marco Rubio insisted that he supports no such exceptions for rape and incest victims for abortions.  Mike Huckabee declared that “I think the next president ought to invoke the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution now that we clearly know that that baby inside the mother’s womb is a person at the moment of conception.” Scott Walker went even further, as he recently signed a ban on abortions after 20 weeks.  The ban did contain an exception to save the life of the mother, but no exceptions for rape or incest.

But with all of this, it has always been my understanding that to be a real politician, you were supposed to listen to your constitutes….?

When pollsters today ask Americans if they think that rape and incest victims should be able to get abortions, more than 80% will say yes, including the majority of both Republican men and women.  Between 60% and 70% are against overturning Roe v. Wade, a position on which both Democrats and Republicans are united.

But the GOP platform has for decades called for a complete ban on abortion without any exceptions.  So, I guess it’s OK to ignore your constitutes.

It would be accurate to say the Republican party and its candidates are making it clear just how far to the right they have gone, and to hell with what the American people want.

Even though the high court has said now for decades that having an abortion is a woman’s right, these Republicans won’t even acknowledge that women have any right to control their own reproductive lives.  While Marco Rubio says women have such a right, he really believes that in practice that right should always be nullified by the state.  The government should force women to carry their pregnancies to term. 

All this means is that Rubio doesn’t actually believe a woman’s right to decide on her own exists.

And these are the same party that keep insisting that the government should stay out of all American’s lives…..right!

What I personally have against all this hypocrisy is that this group of charlatans claim they are “Pro-Life” for their position on abortion.  But after a child is born their “Pro-Life” position disappears. 

If you check the statistics, from the Republican’s point-of-view, once you’re born, you’re on your own.   Yes, it’s the Republicans in Congress that continually cut Food Stamps, school lunch programs, and just about every budget where the government is providing help for the less fortunate of American families.  (80% of Food Stamps are for families with small children.)

So far, the Democrats aren’t making too much of a big deal about all the Republican’s “War On Women” stuff.  But with Hillary’s focus on women’s issues for 2016, the Republicans shouldn’t expect things to stay that way as Election Day gets closer.

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