Posted on 08/13/2015 3:36:17 PM PDT by Pinkbell
Women who get pregnant from rape or incest should be able to go to the emergency room for an "abortion pill," Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson said Thursday.
Speaking on Fox News Channel’s “Your World with Neil Cavuto,” the anchor asked Carson if he believes women should be able to get abortions in cases of rape or incest.
“I would hope that they would very quickly avail themselves of the emergency room, and in the emergency room, they have the ability to administer RU-486 and other possibilities before you have a developing fetus,” Carson said, more than five minutes into the interview.
RU-486 has been dubbed a “chemical abortion pill” by some anti-abortion groups. The National Right to Life website describes it as a pill used at five to seven weeks of pregnancy “that kills an unborn baby whose heart has already begun to beat.”
The anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony List is also opposed to it.
“RU-486 is an abortifacient,” a representative for the group said. “It’s only prescribed use is a chemical abortion. Susan B. Anthony List is solidly opposed to the use of RU-486.”
Carson’s response provoked Cavuto to ask him whether he believes life begins at conception.
“Certainly once the heart starts beating, certainly at that point,” Carson responded.
An email to the Carson campaign for clarification has not been returned.
Carson is a retired neurosurgeon. His views on abortion grabbed headlines on Thursday after a former colleague wrote a blog post claiming that in 1992 he studied parts of a fetal brain produced from an abortion.
Carson has been critical of Planned Parenthood after a string of undercover videos showed officials selling fetal tissue for scientific research.
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With the mainstream, I would agree, but with social conservatives who might make a base for him, it could hurt. I believe life begins at conception, not when the heart starts beating. I’ve also seen pictures of a child in the womb at five to seven weeks and can’t agree with killing it for the crime of his/her father.
He makes no argument. To say that it is OK to kill an innocent developing human is delusional.
It seems your reasoning agrees with the Catholic understanding - you can take an abortion pill as long as it immediately after rape as conception would not have occurred. I am Catholic and although this is theoretically sound, it is likely poor in practice.
The medical term is often used for natural miscarriages.
The article says it happened in 1992.
Fetal tissue from murdered babies wasn’t legal until 1993:
https://saynsumthn.wordpress.com/2015/07/20/1993-clinton-signs-fetal-tissue-research-law/
That makes me think the baby body parts (not tissue) he studied from was from a natural miscarriage.
Everyone is held to a high standard except Trump it seems.
It would also increase the likelihood of getting a criminal conviction.
It would have to be immediate reporting, within 24 hours. Otherwise, it's just more excuses to murder the preborn.
Do I personally approve? No. But realistically, a 24 hour window to report rape would make ending abortion more likely to occur.
No, it doesn't.
Now, the leftist media is going to ask all the other GOP candidates if they agree with Carson and what their position is, and if they don't agree, they're going to be "too extreme" on abortion.
So another leftist narrative comes to fruition, while the real issues, including Planned Parenthood and abortion in general, are being ignored.
I do not believe he is talking about using higher doses of RU486 for weeks-later chemically induced abortion.
Reagan’s position on abortion (at least in one of his books) was illegal except for rape or incest.
His rationale was that the woman had not entered the relationship willingly.
I don’t know what percent of pregnancies these two exceptions cover, but I suspect less than 4% of abortions.
I would be willing to accept 96% of abortions ended to not force women to carry a child when they didn’t want sex. Some would likely still carry it under those circumstances.
Did Reagan ever change that view? Anybody?
Rape/incest exceptions are a MYTH. They are a hole that the abortion lobby and Dems use to drive a hole through and accuse Republicans who oppose it as "too extreme" on abortion, therefore keeping the status-quo on abortion in-tact.
Rape/incest, or even when the Mother's life is in danger, are statistically minuscule percentages in the total number of abortions.
The ONLY exception I would support for abortion is when the Mother and fetus' life is clearly in danger, and I would pray that the Mother would reach out to God and keep the baby alive.
Ben, Ben, Ben.
As I think about it, I believe Reagan also included a life of the mother exception...
Sorry, once you accept the Left's premise, you're toast.
This is why people with no previous military or elective office experience should run for President. There's a juicy Senate seat waiting for Carson in Maryland, but nooo...
Well then, at the same time, there should be a rape-kit DNA test, and a subsequent murder conviction for the rapist.
Ben, it’s the Hippocratic Oath, not the Hypocrite Oath.
The problem is that about 80% of the voters say that abortion should not be illegal in the case of rape of incest.
It’s a losing argument.
Why do you think the left is bringing it up now? Because they are the ones who look extreme after the videos.
This is no accident.
Megyn Kelly brought it up at the debate. Just like Stephanopolous last time with with contraception. Everyone is falling right into the trap again.
Immoral loser.
That’s no problem if you don’t argue it like an ignorant, unprincipled idiot.
I was trying hard to give him the benefit of the doubt, in case he perhaps just stumbled answering a “gotcha” question, but I think he knows exactly what he is talking about and the ramifications.
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