I’m a conservative and every election is always about abortion, among other issues. I don’t switch off my beliefs just because some jackass political consultant decides that issue isn’t “trending” today.
I am not going to throw this guy under the bus because of one misspoken word. It’s liberals who shallowly judge people by the words they use and refuse to take into account their meaning, context, or intent. That’s what political correctness is all about.
Sadly, it wasn’t one misspoken word. It was a poor scientific comment, which he still claims is backed by “doctors”, that women can’t get pregnant if they are forcibly raped.
The worst part is, that is completely clouds the real reason you should not allow abortion in the case of rape. His argument was that we don’t have to allow abortion for rape because in “real rape” the woman doesn’t get pregnant.
But in reality, the reason we shouldn’t allow abortion for rape is that the child isn’t guilty of a crime, and doesn’t deserve to be murdered just because his father was a rapist. Until we can make that argument with conviction, we’ll have a real problem passing a law to ban abortion for rape.
That’s because too many people who are “pro-life” seem to be so because they think the women deserve to suffer a pregnancy — hence, they think that if it wasn’t the “womans fault” she should be allowed to abort. But pregnancy is not a punishment, and abortion should be illegal because it kills a human being, regardless of how the woman got pregnant or why.