On the eve of Saturday’s Nevada caucus, Ron Paul sits down with Piers Morgan for a revealing interview, during which the Republican from Texas shares his views on rape and abortion: “If it’s an honest rape, that individual should go immediately to the emergency room, I would give them a shot of estrogen.”
In an emotional one-hour sit down from Las Vegas, Paul says he feels life does begin at conception, but thinks basing his entire abortion position on a hypothetical situation can be difficult: “A person immediately after rape? Yes, it’s a tough one. And I won’t satisfy everybody there.”
A 76 year old retired white male Obstetrician and LUNATIC will never EVER get the right to tell me or my daughter IF we are raped – WHAT THE FUCK?
MEMO TO RON PAUL & CO. : You roll up on 3 CHICS and take OUR bodies without OUR CONSENT, THAT IS RAPE; HONESTLY! And You’d better kill US, because it’s US or them.
And just who, PRAY tell, gets to determine if the rape is honest? Rape is Rape, dammit! Honestly, 3 Chics just wants the nightmare to be over concerning these off-the-chain, fear mongering, racists, wingnuts. Please, let’s hope the spaceship lands soon to retrieve Ron Paul and the rest of these kooks. It’s back to WINGNUTIA for y’all!
Ron Paul and people like him are hiding behind religion and are the ones God warned us about. Beware of false prophets that come in sheep clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. I despise these people because they deceive so many.
So one can essentially rephrase his wording, but still keep the basic “sentiment” to the following –
“If a woman doesn’t go to the ER within 1 hour of being raped, then it really isn’t [an honest] rape and she’s liar.” I assume that’s the gist right… The Pig.
DING, DING, DING!!!! WE HAVE A WINNER! Hi Barry; you’re ON POINT.
Why are republican women NOT speaking out against this bullshit? Rape doesn’t just happen to Democrats. All women regardless of party affiliation should be outraged at the distain the GOP has for women. Women have to stand together as one & vote their interest. Know who is on your side when it comes to women’ health!
Hm. This person doesn’t sound like he is in touch with reality, to me. I hope I’m wrong.
The entire GOP party is removed from reality.
Ron Paul should just come out and say what he means by “honest rape”. If the victim is promiscuous, then you’re not believable. If the victim dresses provocative, then that’s your ass…he DOESN’T believe you, therefore, the rape is NOT honest.
Lord, deliver us from this evil.
Seriously, SG2. It’s the woman’s fault. That’s the deal with these maniacal nujobs. Paul and his ilk DO NOT EVER want to take responsibility for their weakness of wanting to overpower a woman for being in control of her own body, mind, and spirit. That shit might work for some of their white women; but we don’t play that shit in my neck-o-the-woods.
VIDEO- Ron Paul: “If it’s an honest rape,” go to the emergency room, get “a shot of estrogen.”
http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/2012/02/04/video-ron-paul-if-its-an-honest-rape-go-to-the-emergency-room-get-a-shot-of-estrogen/
I have a few questions for Ron Paul:
WTF is an “honest rape”? There are dishonest ones? Some rapes are more “honest” than others?
So if the trauma is too much for a woman to deal with, a woman who has been raped, and she finally brings herself to, is able to, make a decision about getting an abortion, you’d give the rapist the benefit of the doubt, rather than believing the victim?
And are you saying that a what you might consider to be a promiscuous woman would lie and say she was raped so that she could justify getting an abortion?
Are you suggesting that women are that casual about life-changing decisions like this?
“The people who LIKE abortion”?
“It’s a tough one”?
Abortion is about a doctor’s “handsome fee”?
Really, Ron Paul?
And where do you get off telling any woman what she can or can’t do, what she should or shouldn’t do, with her own body, her own life?
So if the trauma is too much for a woman to deal with, a woman who has been raped, and she finally brings herself to, is able to, make a decision about getting an abortion, you’d give the rapist the benefit of the doubt, rather than believing the victim?
And are you saying that a what you might consider to be a promiscuous woman would lie and say she was raped so that she could justify getting an abortion?
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Hammer Meet Nail! In Ron Paul’s mind a promiscuous woman is a slut and can’t be trusted. She’d lie about being rape. And he doesn’t even consider the rapes of black women. Just read his newsletters!
Ron Paul = Racist Prick to the 10th Power!
All I have to say about this article/video is at least Ron Paul is empathetic about it, unlike assholes like Rick Santorum. Because it’s true, it’s always men talking about this. And we’ll never fully understand. But what I don’t get is why they don’t even seem to be able to fathom it through the least bit of empathy.
How could these men not imagine the way in which the violation of the rape would only continue as a rapist’s child grows inside of a woman? How could they not realize that if she’s forced to keep that child that she may end up resenting it for it’s whole life, or that the child itself will likely have extremely low self-worth due to this fact? How they not understand that by forcing a woman to keep her rapist’s child that you are allowing the rapist to change the course of her entire life? How could you let a rapist have that kind of power over a woman? …To protect the life of a zygote!? What about HER life?
A raped woman is going to be tested practically immediately in almost every case, and she’s not going to carry the pregnancy and have a late-term abortion. Perhaps “life” in the strictest sense begins at conception, but NOT person-hood. We take people off of life support once they’ve gone brain-dead, because we know that, while the body is functioning, the part of what made that person who he/she was.. is gone. A zygote has no heartbeat, is still forming a brain which won’t develop consciousness for months. And these idiots want to value THAT over the suffering of a living, breathing, innocent woman who was robbed of her dignity? Fuck them!
See, I am a man, and I can understand this much. And being a man, I know that barely begins to cover it. So my only guess is that either these conservative anti-abortion politians have zero empathy.. or they just ignore it.
I don’t sense any empathy from Ron Paul. He’s a hypocrit spouting liberty and freedom, and individual rights in one breath, and trying to get up in a women’s reproductive organs and control her in the next breath. Fuck this turd and the horse he rode in on.
Santorum To Rape Survivors: Make The Best Of It By Having That Baby
http://www.care2.com/causes/santorum-to-rape-survivors-make-the-best-of-it-by-having-that-baby.html
It’s a line conservatives like to trot-out when trying to soften their extreme anti-abortion stance, and this time it’s former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum’s turn.
In an interview with CNN’s Piers Morgan show, Santorum was interviewed rather extensively on his hardline anti-abortion views and at one point was asked what Santorum would advise one of his young daughters should she suffer the misfortune of becoming pregnant after a rape and begged her father for permission to have an abortion.
You all know what Santorum’s answer was.
Said Santorum “I would do what every father would do-to try and counsel your daughter to do the right thing.” When pressed on whether or not the “right thing” could include having an abortion Santorum replied “You can make the argument that if she doesn’t have this baby, if she kills her child, that too could ruin her life.”
Santorum added: “I believe and I think that the right approach is to accept this horribly created, in the sense of rape, but nevertheless, in a very broken way, a gift of human life, and accept what God is giving to you. As you know, in lots of different aspects of our life we have horrible things happening. I can’t think of anything more horrible, but nevertheless we have to make the best out of a bad situation. And that is making the best of a bad situation.”
That’s right ladies. Santorum’s advice is to make that lemonade out of life’s lemons, so long as “lemonade” only means forcibly carrying your pregnancy to term.
Santorum added: “I believe and I think that the right approach is to accept this horribly created, in the sense of rape, but nevertheless, in a very broken way, a gift of human life, and accept what God is giving to you. As you know, in lots of different aspects of our life we have horrible things happening. I can’t think of anything more horrible, but nevertheless we have to make the best out of a bad situation. And that is making the best of a bad situation.”
Yes, you read it right. “Make the best out of a bad situation” The gall of this sob. If this isn’t a wake up call to women…then I don’t know what is?
WHAT YOU MEAN “WE” WHITE MAN? It’s RAPE is all about POWER for men. You don’t give me that body; well; I’ll just take it. As Women, we get to control OUR bodies, It’s the one thing no one has jurisdiction over. OUR BODIES!
honest rape?
W-T-F?
he is so foul.
racist and misogynist.
Can you believe that? “If it’s an honest rape”? I’m furious at this little ragged racist. Rape is rape, dammit. You do NOT get to decide what is rape or change the definition of rape, mofo!
Listen up, women of America….it’s imperative that you go to the polls and vote your interest. The GOP have made an all out assault on women’s issues. Vote these mofos out! They’re a detriment to our health!
That turd is in Minnesota today.