September 10, 2007
Pam Spaulding on Fred Thompson on Womb Control, Gay Rights
Let’s get this first bit of lunacy out of the way — Fred Thompson on who should face criminal sanction for an abortion:
“Don’t punish women who have abortions,” presidential hopeful Fred Thompson says. Punish the doctors who perform them…Authorities “can do whatever they want to with abortion doctors, as far as I’m concerned,” the former Tennessee senator said while campaigning in Western Iowa according to the Los Angeles Times. But “if it comes down to giving criminal sanctions to a 19-year-old girl and her mama, I’m against that.”
Wait a minute. If it’s going to be a crime, why not punish the mother? If we’re going to do the whole law and order thing (har-dee-har-har), when it comes to state womb control, doesn’t the woman represent the one contracting the hit on the fetus?
As even one Freeper sanely noted, the inconsistency makes no sense:
Under Thompson’s logic here, it’s perfectly legal for a woman to use a coat hanger to perform an abortion on herself but illegal for her to receive medical assistance in doing it. In other words, it’s not illegal to kill a child. But it’s illegal to help a woman do such. That doesn’t make much sense to me at all. I’m not sure how that’s even a pro-life argument.
And what about the male partner in this equation? What if he agrees with the woman in question that she should have an abortion, perhaps even drives her to the clinic in support of her decision — is he then an accessory to the crime? Shouldn’t he be prosecuted, Fred? …
The newest occupant of the GOP clown car also made it plainly clear where his thinking lies regarding marriage equality…
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Filed under: Election 2008, Fred Thompson, Marriage, Women
