During a House Judiciary Committee hearing, pro-birth activist Catherine Glenn Foster, the head of the anti-abortion law firm and advocacy group Americans United for Life, stunned listeners after she claimed it “would not be an abortion” if a 10-year-old rape victim got pregnant and had to get an abortion. DOnt worry.... the GOP now can declare what is and what is not abortion! So all life is precious until we decide what life isnt and then you can get rid of it... we just wont call it abortion.
Isn't that the core of Roe v Wade.....7 White males in 1973 said when a fetus gets to live and when it can be extinguished
No because it was ALL called abortion... this fucktard was saying if a 10 year old is raped and they terminate the pregnancy it is not an abortion. try to keep up I dont have enough crayons.
Her point is that if it was an ectopic pregnancy it is a process to save her life......It is truly a medical decision......Abortion is a blanket term that should be assigned to baby killing by choice
abortion is a medical procedure, you dont get to decide when something is or is not an abortion. I do nt care what you think abortion should mean, it means what it means. GOP is just trying to back track on their abortion bans because they got caught looking stupid when a little raped girl had to leave the state to get an abortion. So they cmae up with a fantasy of deciding an abortion is what they decide what it is.... sorry...an abortion is a medical procedure. Does not matter choice or no choice it still is an abortion.
Indianapolis is rampant with gang activity and has had 110 homicides this year. Yet this is the shit the AG wants his department to focus on?
Ya, anything that doesn't suit you politically is a conspiracy, first the rape didn't happen and now the child was raped by the anti-abortion lobby because you can't fathom real life situations where virtue signaling Republicans end up looking bad.
The story also became the timber from which right-wing politicians and commentators constructed a metaphorical pyre to burn their Witch of the Month, abortion provider Bernard. Conservatives furiously jockeyed for position among the online and televised mob, battling to be the loudest in questioning the validity of the story. Much of their criticism was focused on Bernard, accusing her of fabricating the story for a partisan political charade to oppose the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. “The story was not true,” declared top-rated Fox News host Tucker Carlson. A “fantastical tale,” and “too good to confirm,” a Wall Street Journal editorial said. There were “ten red flags” about the story, PJ Media’s Megan Fox told Fox News’ Jesse Watters, adding “this story should now be placed in the hoax category.” Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost (R) also went on Watters’ show, declaring he had heard “not a whisper” about the case and claimed Ohio law didn’t actually prohibit the girl’s abortion so she shouldn’t have had to leave the state. Emily Compagno, co-host of Fox News’ Outnumbered, called the story “deeply offensive” and “fake.” “Another lie,” tweeted Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH). The objections were false. The outrage a fraud. The tragic news: that was real. As The Columbus Dispatch reported on Wednesday, Gerson Fuentes, a 27-year-old illegal immigrant, was arrested and charged with raping the girl. Columbus police said that he had confessed to raping her on at least two occasions. With Fuentes arrested and public court records verifying the key elements of the story, the punditry posse clung tightly to their torches and pitchforks as they shifted to echoing Yost’s claim the abortion could have been done in Ohio, bizarrely attempting to take credit for Fuentes’ arrest, and accusing Bernard of various crimes. Regarding the difficulty of finding an Ohio doctor to perform this abortion, criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor Ken White (aka Popehat on Twitter) tweeted a thread eviscerating Yost’s arguments. “The people telling you the 10-year-old could get an abortion in Ohio are ignorant or lying,” White wrote, noting Ohio allowed no exceptions for rape, incest, or age of the mother. Doctors might conclude a pregnant girl so young met the statute’s exceptions for risk to the mother’s life or “serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function,” but, he argued, it was far from clear legally, and a lawyer would be a “fool” to advise a doctor to go forward and risk the loss of their license, lawsuits, and prison. https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/oh...efore-figuring-out-if-witchery-is-even-afoot/