Why don’t you all read what he said instead of what somebody infers that he meant from what he said?
If you have an exception for the life of the mother - and all pro-lifers I know support that exception - then there will be thousands of those exceptions. Read what he said. He talked about specific situations that might threaten the mother’s life, he specifically limited his comments to life of the mother situations. So yeah, I am as pro-life as it gets, and I will say clearly, there would be thousand of exceptions.
I need Jack Nicholson to scream at you, “You can’t handle the truth!” This is the truth - and the fact that the American public isn’t ready to fully support life (which just frustrates me) is also the truth. Why start dumping on the guy for telling the truth about a very important issue? Would you rather a Clintobama type person blow the smoke of “there will be no exceptions, and the country is ready for a total ban now” up your skirts?
No, I am not a Rand supporter; but when you twist a man’s words into something he didn’t say in order to help justify your dislike of the man, you’re no better than the dims.
Why don’t YOU read what he said?
Rand Paul backed away from a pro-life position. For all his rambling and evasion, his “flexibility” was what he was expressing, Paul is another Mitt Romney on abortion.
BLITZER: So, just to be precise, if you believe life begins at conception, which I suspect you do believe that, you would have no exceptions for rape, incest, the life of the mother, is that right?
PAUL: Well, I think that once again puts things in too small of a box. What I would say is that there are thousands of exceptions. You know, I’m a physician and every individual case is going to be different, and everything is going to be particular to that individual case and what’s going on with that mother and the medical circumstances of that mother.
I would say that after birth, you know, we’ve decided that when life begins, we have decided that we don’t have exceptions for one- day-old or six-month-olds. We don’t ask where they came from or how they came into being, but it is more complicated because the rest of it depends on the definition of when life comes in. So, I don’t think it’s a simple as checking box and saying exceptions or no exceptions.
I’ve been there at the beginning of life. I’ve held one-pound babies in my hand that I examined their eyes. I’ve been there at the end of life.
And there are a lot of decisions that are made privately by families and their doctors that really won’t — the law won’t apply to, but I think it’s important that we not be flippant one way or the other and pigeon hole and say, oh, this person doesn’t believe in any sort of discussion between family. And so, I don’t know if there’s a simple way to put me in a category on any of that.
BLITZER: Well, it sounds like you believe in some exceptions.
PAUL: Well, there’s going to be, like I say, thousands of extraneous situations where the life of the mother is involved and other things that are involved.
So, I would say that each individual case would have to be addressed and even if there were eventually a change in the law, let’s say, the people came more to my way of thinking, it’s still be a lot of complicated things that the law may not ultimately be able to address in the early stages of pregnancy that would have to be part of what occurs between the physician and the woman and the family.
This goes for the same with the end of life. I do think life ought to be protected to the end. I don’t believe in, you know, officially euthanizing people, but I also think there is some privacy at the end of life also, and we make difficult decisions all the time on resuscitation, how long to extend medical treatment, and a lot of these are medical decisions.
Careful - you will be accused of being a left-Wing plant if you ask them to use their brains for actual thinking.
Despite all evidence of the world being a myriad subset of gray shades, there are many who are incapable of admitting that reality is not and cannot be a pure black/white enterprise. That thinking dooms us to Leftist control because they will invariably find reason to 'disqualify" anyone on our side who shows the ability to think in terms of reality.