Teabagger-backed CO Senate Candidate Ken Buck Insists Rape, Incest Are No Excuse For An Abortion

Colorado Senate Candidate Ken Buck Insists Rape, Incest Are No Excuse For An Abortion



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/03/colorado-senate-candidate_n_669432.html

Tea Party-backed contender Ken Buck, who's facing-off against Jane Norton in Colorado's GOP Senate primary says he firmly opposes abortion rights and doesn't "believe in the exceptions of rape or incest."

Greg Sargent at the Washington Post relays how Buck explained his staunch pro-life stance to a constituent of the Centennial State on Monday:

"I am pro-life, and I'll answer the next question. I don't believe in the exceptions of rape or incest. I believe that the only exception, I guess, is life of the mother. And that is only if it's truly life of the mother.

To me, you can't say you're pro-life and say -- if there is, and it's a very rare situation where one life would have to cease for the other life to exist. But in that very rare situation, we may have to take the life of the child to save the life of the mother.

In that rare situation, I am in favor of that exception. But other than that I have no exceptions in my position."