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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRubio - No Abortion For Zika Infected Babies And No Government Help For Disabled Child Either.
I really do not know how such and ignorant, stupid, and bigoted empty suit like Rubio ever won anything. He is like a damned bed bug you cannot get rid of.
So if a woman has a disabled child because she cannot get an abortion if infected with the Zika virus, what is she supposed to do about raising a severely disabled child and supporting it for the rest of her life even in old age. The GOP is one the record about having no food stamps, no welfare, no funding for the disabled, and virtually no help from any government whatsoever.
They don't want any availability of birth control. They would make using contraceptives a crime given a chance.
Perhaps it is about punishment for having sex in the first place. And that policy is particularly targeted at women who have sex outside of marriage.
Nothing the GOP does makes any sense at all.
kysrsoze
(6,010 posts)What a complete ass.
applegrove
(118,022 posts)for their summer holidays. Maybe they want the issue of zika abortions hot by the time Nov 8. rolls around?
gwheezie
(3,580 posts)Even with legal abortion, medicaid won't pay for one. If you have enough money and insurance you can get an abortion but if you're poor, forget it.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)These deep thinkers always manage to reach a consistent conclusion.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,308 posts)63splitwindow
(2,657 posts)They know both married and single women will continue to get abortions under various circumstances but, if illegal, there would be no chance of any form of government or insurance company assistance with the cost thereof. THEIR wallet remains safe unless, of course, they need to send a "friend" or relative away to a women's spa for a therapeutic respite.
MFM008
(19,782 posts)in office.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)big problem and now they will probably spend more to take care of these handicap babies, shameful. This shows they do not give a damn about American citizens.
sofa king
(10,857 posts)It's the Democratic Party.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)But how? How???
47of74
(18,470 posts)And the water bottle he was guzzling when he came in.
lillypaddle
(9,580 posts)lillypaddle
(9,580 posts)How DARE he??? No empathy, no compassion, and yet he calls himself "prolife?" Pro life filled with misery? I swear, I hate these people.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)This makes me so angry I could spit nails! They are nothing but hateful and mean-spirited. Not one thread of compassion for anybody.
SunSeeker
(51,378 posts)Hulk
(6,699 posts)When you see 42% willing to support such a dumb ass as drumpf...they certainly don't give a damn about this dim witted token-minority not giving a damn about the health and welfare of the less than wealthy citizen.
We can bitch and scream all we want...but THEY DON'T CARE! They don't.
dragonlady
(3,577 posts)The government has no business running such a thing. I asked how poor people would get the care they need. He said there is always a way. I asked for some examples. He said he's not up on that but there must be something.
Must be "advisor material" for drumpf's cabinet.
katmondoo
(6,454 posts)Skittles
(152,967 posts)brer cat
(24,402 posts)47of74
(18,470 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)more republican voters.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)that's the GOP, right there.
Kind of puts the whole "why did we nominate this extremist, that's not who we are!" noise from the GOP establishment in perspective.
47of74
(18,470 posts)This current crop of Republicans have wanted to go through life with their boots on the throats of those they see as inferior to them. All the way back to the 1960s at the least when many southern Democrats left and hopped in to bed with the establishment GOP.
imanamerican63
(13,671 posts)this nut is talking over his head.
Calculating
(2,954 posts)You would need to be brain damaged from Zika to even consider voting for a loathsome politician like Rubio.
CherokeeDem
(3,709 posts)All the GOP has to offer is disgusting SOB's like this bastard.
This is disgusting, forcing this horrid situation on a woman. Sorry, just get so angry any attempt at lucidity goes out the window.
I loathed these Republicans.
Koinos
(2,792 posts)It infects all Republicans. They just don't care.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)Leviticus to the Constitution.
I predicted this sort of open fanaticism nearly 20 years ago.
StraightRazor
(260 posts)'cause running for a Republican Senate seat in a Republican district makes you say lots of crazy things - par for the course.
Back in reality though, he supported funding for Zika:
"In the Senate, Rubio has supported the provision of funding for work against Zika. In May, after a $1.1bn funding measure he sponsored passed the Senate, he cited an estimate from the CDC director, Tom Frieden, that the lifetime cost of caring for a child born with microcephaly could reach $10m.
Were going to be dealing with Zika for multiple years, Rubio said. Outside of the human cost is the economic cost of this. Were going to be spending money on Zika for the foreseeable future.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/07/marco-rubio-zika-virus-abortions-florida
I realize actual facts get in the way of a good rant, but at least try to give an honest representation. Republicans do enough real crap on their own, there's no need to skew what's actually happening.
maxrandb
(15,193 posts)and we both were saying how incredibly difficult this decision would be, especially knowing that you were going to have a child with a terrible birth defect. We talked about how we would never want to be put it that person's shoes and how agonizing it must be...but then my bride brought it all home when she said;
"it's really not that difficult a decision...the decision really is to simply let the pregnant woman make the decision".