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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFlorida GOPer Real Sorry He Called Pregnant Women 'Host Bodies'
Though Oliva describes himself as a "libertarian" who thinks people should be able to do what they want without government interference, he said he just wasn't so sure about reproductive rights and subsequently went on a bizarre rant in which he repeatedly referred to human women as "host bodies."
Yes, that's right, HOST BODIES.
"Well the challenge there is that there are two lives involved," he said. "So, where I believe that we should stay out of people's lives, I don't believe that people's lives should be taken. It's a complex issue because one has to think, well there's a host body and that host body has to have a certain amount of rights because at the end of the day it is that body that that carries this entire other body to term. But there is an additional life there."
"And the question that we have to ask ourselves is: What is the limit to which we are going to give one person complete power over the life of another?"
Host bodies. Host bodies.
He continued using the term for the duration of the interview
Yes, that's right, HOST BODIES.
"Well the challenge there is that there are two lives involved," he said. "So, where I believe that we should stay out of people's lives, I don't believe that people's lives should be taken. It's a complex issue because one has to think, well there's a host body and that host body has to have a certain amount of rights because at the end of the day it is that body that that carries this entire other body to term. But there is an additional life there."
"And the question that we have to ask ourselves is: What is the limit to which we are going to give one person complete power over the life of another?"
Host bodies. Host bodies.
He continued using the term for the duration of the interview
]https://www.wonkette.com/florida-goper-real-sorry-he-called-pregnant-women-host-bodies
Good grief.... SERIOUSLY?
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Florida GOPer Real Sorry He Called Pregnant Women 'Host Bodies' (Original Post)
Soph0571
Mar 2019
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MaryMagdaline
(6,855 posts)1. Yea, libertarians are not strong on women's rights
Its a mens rights club
Marcuse
(7,487 posts)2. If the woman is a host then the fetus is a parasite? That's weird thinking.
whathehell
(29,067 posts)3. Unbelievable..
Really.
Farmer-Rick
(10,175 posts)4. Yes, women are no longer capable of taking care of the parasite fetus growing in their host body.
Women did just fine before any laws on their bodies were made up and tied around their wombs. But now, we have to force those inhuman host bodies to allow those parasitic fetuses to fully develop.
Those same laws would apply to tape worms and pin worms. Are men killing off life in our host bodies too by not carrying worms? Maybe we need to reconsider ridding ourself of parasites? Are we killing life by our sanitary ideal of not having parasites? Maybe we should bring back worm infestation.
SWBTATTReg
(22,130 posts)5. What an idiot. What are we, aliens on another planet? NT