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Cyrano

(15,035 posts)
Sun Aug 7, 2016, 11:15 AM Aug 2016

Rubio: No abortions for pregnant women with zika

Hey Marco: It's none of your goddamn business what a woman does with her own body. When the hell are you Republicans going to get the hell out of other people's personal lives and very personal decisions?

(Rubio is running for the Senate again here in Florida. Screw him.)

Sen. Marco Rubio said Saturday that he doesn’t 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, it’s a difficult question and a hard one," Rubio told POLITICO.

"But if I’m going to err, I’m going to err on the side of life."


http://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2016/08/rubio-no-abortions-for-zika-infected-women-104555



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forest444

(5,902 posts)
4. What about abortions for women carrying future self-righteous bastards with ties to narcos?
Sun Aug 7, 2016, 11:23 AM
Aug 2016

No se puede?

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
5. Cynical, whatever-sells Rubio's on the right side for his campaign but
Sun Aug 7, 2016, 11:30 AM
Aug 2016

wrong side of history. With global warming, Zika will sweep advanced nations and extremely populous ones, not just ones with less voice, and will change religious views and national laws around the planet. The Pope knows. The only thing that can save the no-abortion-no-matter-what political wings is fairly swift development of a vaccine.

 

beachbumbob

(9,263 posts)
7. This can be the basis of great campaign against Rubio....
Sun Aug 7, 2016, 11:35 AM
Aug 2016

Tie Rubio heartlessness and lack of humanity to trumps... And women will run to democratic candidates...a clear defined lined between assisting women and families....telling them to take a hike.

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,853 posts)
8. He's trying to tap into those evangelical voters too.
Sun Aug 7, 2016, 11:44 AM
Aug 2016

The white evangelical Christians are overwhelmingly supporting Trump against Clinton according to a recent FOX poll, 69% to 19%!!! That was the same poll that showed Clinton leading overall by 10%.

Holy cow.

I guess people might think it's murder of a human IF they think there's a magical soul in there at conception. What about chimeras? The eggs that fuse together soon after they're each fertilized? Do those people have TWO SOULS??? Good grief!

I don't consider fetuses to be "human" until their brain waves are human-like, and that doesn't happen for MANY WEEKS! It's the same basis for how adults are deemed "brain dead" and get their life support pulled, so we might as well keep it consistent!

The unique brain wave patterns persist through sleep, various comas, etc.

Fla Dem

(23,657 posts)
9. Who the fu*k cares what little Marco Rubio says. Will he approve funding to provide for the
Sun Aug 7, 2016, 12:00 PM
Aug 2016

lifetime funding for care for Zika babies. Of course he won't. He doesn't care about life once it's out of the womb.

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