A far-right Republican state senator explaining his opposition to a bill that would grant an abortion exception for rape or incest told his fellow lawmakers, a “1-year-old could get an abortion under this.”Senator Bill Eigel, a pro-Trump Republican who is also running to become Missouri’s next governor

  • [email protected]
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    1409 months ago

    a bill that would grant an abortion exception for rape or incest

    … 1 year olds kids.
    Nevermind the fact that 1y.o. aren’t fertile, normal people go their entire lives without ever thinking about impregnating 1 year olds.
    And yea, if you somehow magically got a 1 y.o. pregnant, I sure as fuck hope they’d be able abort.

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      559 months ago

      I literally started screaming in my head (though, to be fair, most of my internal dialogue is just screams these days) , “WELL IF SOMEONE SOMEHOW GETS A ONE YEAR OLD PREGNANT, OBVIOUSLY THEY SHOULD HAVE AN ABORTION!” And then this guy’s mom should have a really, really late post-term abortion. What the fuck is wrong with with conservatives?

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      269 months ago

      I’ll never understand why they are more opposed to abortions for minors, who definitely didn’t consent to sex and are more likely to be harmed by the pregnancy in so many ways.

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          69 months ago

          So I do believe there is a significant and even growing misogynist/ child-bride/patriarchal-women-as-breeders-every-man-deserves-at-least-one element among Republican policy makers. But, I think the majority of Republican voters aren’t looking at the specific intent of these bills and simply think it will never happen to their daughter because fill in the blank superiority complex, and that’s what really pisses me off. Evidence of a well-fortified barrier to empathy.

      • Flying Squid
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        59 months ago

        They don’t believe there is such a thing as not consenting to sex if you’re female.

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      139 months ago

      Don’t conservatives always complain about how liberals don’t understand guns and therefore shouldn’t regulate them?

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        49 months ago

        They don’t have principles, they have goals, and will say anything they expect to further those goals.