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By MARC CAPUTO 08/06/16 03:54 PM EDT
Sen. Marco Rubio said Saturday that he doesnt believe a pregnant woman infected with the Zika virus should have the right to an abortion even if she had reason to believe the child would be born with severe microcephaly.
"I understand a lot of people disagree with my view but I believe that all human life is worthy of protection of our laws. And when you present it in the context of Zika or any prenatal condition, its a difficult question and a hard one," Rubio told POLITICO.
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"But if Im going to err, Im going to err on the side of life."
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So, is this asshole going to help raise those severely handicapped children?
http://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2016/08/rubio-no-abortions-for-zika-infected-women-104555
47of74
(18,470 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,311 posts)it's a Right wing thing.
miyazaki
(2,239 posts)Humanist_Activist
(7,670 posts)as long as it has a heartbeat, we must try to keep it alive as long as is practical. Fuck, we don't even treat our pets this cruelly, yet we treat ourselves this way? What is wrong with him and other anti-choice fuckheads?
tblue37
(65,227 posts)MichiganVote
(21,086 posts)greymattermom
(5,751 posts)Inquiring minds want to know
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)DawgHouse
(4,019 posts)onecaliberal
(32,780 posts)BlueStater
(7,596 posts)His senate opponent, whoever it is, needs to run an ad highlighting this.
Hugin
(33,058 posts)We're going to have to go much deeper to find that bar. MUCH DEEPER!
If this clown reject gets re-elected, well... I just don't know what to think about the kinds of people who would do such a thing.
Loki
(3,825 posts).How nice.
LuckyLib
(6,817 posts)Not a peep out of you!
Warpy
(111,164 posts)Questions like that are hard for Rubio because he's got little insight and no empathy.
Please, Florida, defeat him.
Stinky The Clown
(67,762 posts)tblue37
(65,227 posts)because there is no way to test for the microcephaly during the earlier stages of pregnancy.
https://www.statnews.com/2016/08/05/stat-harvard-poll-zika-abortion/
Americans strong aversion to late-term abortions drops precipitously if a developing fetus would likely be born with severe damage from the Zika virus, a new STAT-Harvard poll found.
It showed that 59 percent of respondents thought women should have the right to end a pregnancy after 24 weeks of gestation if testing showed there was a serious possibility the fetus had microcephaly caused by the mothers Zika infection.
But most states have laws that restrict abortions either after a certain point in pregnancy 22 set the cutoff by the 24th week or when the fetus is viable outside the womb (also about the 24th week), according to the Guttmacher Institute.
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That type of damage can take several weeks to become apparent in prenatal testing. By the time some women learn what Zika has done to the fetuses they are carrying, their access to legal abortion could be blocked in most states.
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Even 48% of Republicans favor late-term abortions if the fetus has been seriously affected by Zika.
Crunchy Frog
(26,578 posts)Is what I'm guessing his policy would be.