Posted on 03/20/2013 6:39:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
So confused am I by what he’s saying in the clip below that I’m not sure I’ve summed up his position correctly in the headline. The Blaze, wisely, didn’t even try. Their own post on this is simply titled, “CNN Asked Rand Paul About Abortion Exceptions: This Is How He Answered.” Here’s what we know: Not only is Paul pro-life, he just introduced the Life At Conception Act in the Senate, which would overturn Roe via a federal statute aimed at protecting due process for a fetus per Congress’s power under Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment. So far, so good. Simple question from Wolf Blitzer, then: Would he make an exception for pregnancies caused by rape and those that threaten the health of the mother? That’s when things got … complicated.
I would say that, after birth, we’ve decided that when life begins, we have decided that we don’t have exceptions for one-day-olds or a six-month-olds. We don’t ask where they came from or how they came into being.
But it is more complicated, because the rest of it depends on the definition of when life comes in. So I don’t think it’s as simple as checking a box and saying, “Exceptions” or “No exceptions.”
I’ve been there at the beginning of life. I’ve held one pound babies in my hand that I examined their eyes. I’ve been there at the end of life......
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
Which means that the abortionist must be given the death penalty or life imprisonment.
And it means that the woman (along with any helping friends or family) who secures the abortion shall be prosecuted as an accessory.
This is the sort of thing that any candidate who flatly states that "abortion is murder" will be asked by the MSM, too. Words have meanings......
There you were, flying high from the filibuster, when suddenly you were body-snacthed by Romney.
I never heard of a pro-lifer that was against ending a pregnancy when the mother has a tubal pregnancy. In fact, I don’t even think this is considered an abortion. The pregnancy is already doomed with a tubal pregnancy.
I’d like to know why Planned Parenthood gave Rand Paul a 33% favorable rating.
“KY U.S. Senate Jr Rand Paul Republican 33”
snip http://votesmart.org/interest-group/1578/rating/6093
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