Posted on 05/22/2022 4:39:16 AM PDT by Kaslin
Georgia Senate candidate and former professional football player Herschel Walker said on Wednesday that he supports restrictions on abortion without exceptions for rape, incest or the health of the mother.
Walker made the remarks to reporters after a campaign speech this week.
“There’s no exception in my mind,” he said. “Like I say, I believe in life. I believe in life.”
“You never know what a child is going to become,” he added. “And I’ve seen some people, they’ve had some tough times, but I always said, ‘No matter what, tough times make tough people.’”
In a statement shared with The Hill, Walker’s campaign said the he “is pro-life and will not apologize for that.”
Last month, the pro-life organization National Right to Life endorsed Walker.
“National Right to Life is pleased to endorse Herschel Walker for the U.S. Senate,” Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life, said in a statement. “Herschel Walker will be a most effective champion for unborn babies and their mothers in Washington and he has demonstrated the passion and perseverance it takes to win the critically important Georgia Senate race.”
The organization added that Walker supports pro-life protections and opposes using taxpayer dollars to fund abortion providers. He is a support of the Hyde Amendment, which protects federal funds from being used for abortions in government programs.
In addition, Walker opposes the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA), a Democrat-led piece of legislation that would codify Roe v. Wade into federal law. The legislation would undermine pro-life laws enacted at the state level. Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock, from Georgia, supports pro-abortion policies.
“Georgia deserves a pro-life senator like Herschel Walker who is committed to building a culture of life,” said Tobias. “Walker’s stance for life stands in stark contrast to the out-of-touch record of Warnock who supports abortion for any reason until birth.”
Love and deeply respect Herschel Walker!
A really good man!
If it's like killing a baby human (it is) then there can be no exceptions.
Amen, amen, amen.
+1
I voted for him last week.
God bless him.
I am in Tennessee and we always have our primary at the beginning of March. I missed them this time because I was in the hospital. We have another primary in August which is for local election.
I fly a Florida flag ( after living here many, many years)
….but my heart, roots and extended family are Tennesseans
Thanks for all you do
Hope you feel better
If you accept the exceptions, the “abortion is murder and a sin and crime” argument is invalidated.
And the “Mother’s life is in danger” situation is way, way too rare to enter into this. If any “mother” uses this exception, she and the doctor will need to lawyer up.
totally agree with him; no exceptions. A life is a life no matter the source of conception.
Be careful, Herschel! They will try to destroy you!
If the life of the mother is endangered then mother and doctor should be making a decision…. Not the government
WHEN HE gets pregnant by a rapist-—I will consider his opinion.
And he's busy giving them the ammunition.
Seriously, why is non-rape incest always included for exceptions?
Specious is right. Becoming pregnant from rape is a terrible injustice to the woman, but does not imbue killing the child with some sort of moral validity.
One of the problems, of course, is that “rape” can be claimed when it was not. That’s just a statement of fact. But if we, as a society, were able to rightly discern true instances of rape through science and law, and punish the guilty rapist in the same fashion as these people punish the innocent child, would rape decrease?
Indeed.
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