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Related: About this forumSenate Candidate Berg (R-ND): Life Sentences For Rape Victims Who Obtain Abortions
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/09/04/790351/gop-senate-candidate-supported-life-sentences-for-rape-victims-who-obtain-abortions/Rep. Rick Berg (R-ND), the candidate for Senate from North Dakota, once voted for a bill that would have made any woman who obtained an abortion guilty of a homicide crime even if it were in the case of rape or incest. Indeed, the bill Berg supported does not even contain an explicit exception if an abortion is necessary to save the womans life.
In 2007, Berg was among the small number of state representatives in the North Dakota House who supported the measure. It also would have imposed penalties on doctors and anyone else who aids, abets, facilitates, solicits, or incites a person into an abortion:
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)RC
(25,592 posts)Heidi Heitkamp is well known and well liked and a formidable foe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi_Heitkamp
She lost the last election because she had to drop out due to breast cancer.
ND rape penalties:
Class B: up to 10 years; $10,000 fine
Class C: up to 5 years: $5,000 fine
Class A misdemeanor:1 year; $2,000 fine
Class B misdemeanor:30 days; $1,000 fine (N.D. Cent.
http://www.arte-sana.com/articles/rape_statutes.pdf
HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)Throw her and her parents in jail? Oh, wait that wouldn't happen since if they are PARENTS they must be ANTI-CHOICE.
I guess he never heard of tubal pregnancies either; BOTH will die in that case.
Iggo
(47,561 posts)The only things that matter are the rapist's parental rights and the fetus's duty to vote republican.
The.Woman.Doesn't.Count.
avebury
(10,952 posts)WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)North Dakota to get this idiot elected.
The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)SheilaT
(23,156 posts)for the penis-wielding criminal who created the need for the abortion in the first place.
I'm beginning to think it might be a very good idea to castrate all men at puberty.
And before you guys complain, what I've suggested is simply an extreme male-hating version of that these extreme women-hating men are proposing.
And no, I don't really mean it.
gaspee
(3,231 posts)Solve the abortion issue once and for all, LOL!
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)upon presentation of a valid marriage certificate?
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)that women seeking abortions did not have some kind of miraculous conception. There is always a man involved.
And vasectomy at birth, while an intriguing idea, wouldn't prevent rapes, although at least it would drastically cut down on the number of pregnancies resulting from such rapes.
Oh, and it wouldn't solve the problem of pregnancy from incest, if it's the father, who married the girl's mother and got that repair with the valid marriage certificate.
It is women, and only women who bear the entire burden of pregnancy and childbirth. And yes, there are many good men out there who are as involved in the whole process as they can possibly be. But all of this total denial of a woman's own body, all of this attempt to criminalize what invariably involves a man, is beyond disgusting.
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)At some point humans must be involved.
Education and respect is impactive.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Jus going with the logic here.
niyad
(113,490 posts)may they receive everything they deserve.
cabot
(724 posts)The voters of North Dakota need to know about this. Heidi H. has to use this in ads.
Butterbean
(1,014 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)ie. throw women in prison for using birth control, basically.
"Biblical Law" and all that entails.
And it's sad that even here on DU we have people who enable the religious right and their authoritarian agenda of controlling sexuality and peoples' choices.