Rand Paul's False Claims on Abortion Don't Match His Previous Statements [KY US Senate]

AIPNews.com ^ | Feb. 24, 2010 | Johnson and Grayson campaigns

[hockeyfan]

It’s all Greek to me.

[EternalVigilance]

Rand Paul doesn’t think the national government has the imperative duty to protect the unalienable rights of all. Just like his dad. States’ rights trumps all.

[Crichton]

Long story short: Rand Paul couldn’t figure out for sure whether he’d vote for the Partial Birth Abortion ban.

[EternalVigilance]

Looks like he also has no problem with the “morning after” pill, which is an abortifacient. In other words, it kills babies.

[EternalVigilance]

Personhood ping...

[CharlesWayneCT]

I wonder what Sarah Palin’s position is on the “morning after” pill.

[wagglebee]

Rand Paul doesn’t think the national government has the imperative duty to protect the unalienable rights of all. Just like his dad. States’ rights trumps all.

The way the Pauls see it an individual state would be perfectly within their "rights" if the abolished laws against murder, rape, robbery and kidnapping.

[babygene]

Murder is prosecuted as a state crime. It’s a almost always a state issue. I agree that under the Constitution, a fetus should be protected the same as any other citizen, however the murder of other citizens is a state crime not a federal crime.

[babygene]

“The way the Pauls see it an individual state would be perfectly within their “rights” if the abolished laws against murder, rape, robbery and kidnapping.’

Actually they do to an extent. For example, killing someone that breaks into your house is treated differently in Texas as opposed to New York. In one case it’s murder, the other it is not.

[EternalVigilance]

The Fourteenth Amendment requires the states to protect all innocent persons, and to provide for the equal protection of the laws for all persons. The Pauls like to ignore that, but it's as clear as it could possibly be. Even Judge Blackmun acknowledged this fact in the Roe decision. If the fetus is a person, they are "of course" protected, he said.

"No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

[nkycincinnatikid]

Funny. Trey( I voted as a RAT delegate for BJ Clinton and my Daddy is a white trash NKY bankster) Grayson has bought this Johnson guy and they are now running as a team?

[tacticalogic]

Can you make a case that the original intent of the authors of that amendment was to provide for a federal ban on abortion?

[John D]

Rand Paul doesn’t think the national government has the imperative duty to protect the unalienable rights of all. Just like his dad. States’ rights trumps all.

Looks like he is as goofy as his dad. I wonder if he will be able to rack up the earmarks like his dad, if he does get elected.

[babygene]

The Fourteenth Amendment could make it a civil rights violation. Murder is a state crime not a federal crime. We really don’t want to make it a federal crime.

If a state law is unconstitutional because of the 14th, then take that to court. The federal government has no authority under the constitution to prosecute such crimes.

[ABQHispConservative]

I think the people that have an ax to grind with Sarah will turn a blind eye to that fact.

[EternalVigilance]

Can you make the case that the child is not a person?

[EternalVigilance]

What other of our unalienable rights do you believe this about other than the right to life?

[EternalVigilance]

Wow. What a complete misrepresentation that is.

[tacticalogic]

Can you make the case that the child is not a person?

Why do I need to? I just want to know if what you're proposing is based on an objectively defensible original intent interpretation of the Constitution, or if we're dealing in "penumbras and emanations".

A simple question, and one that needs to be asked.