Friday, December 16, 2011

End of Story

In an 8 Dec post from the goddess Echidne "More on Newt Gingrich and the Forced Birthers," she recaps a gaffe recently made by candidate Gingrich:

Newt Gingrich has moved quickly to repair any potential fallout from his remarks last Friday to ABC's Jake Tapper in which he said that life begins at the "successful implantation" of a fertilized egg, rather than at conception.

That is heresy to the pro-life movement, and had the potential to complicate Gingrich's rise in the Republican presidential polls, especially in crucial states like Iowa and South Carolina, whose early caucuses and primary are dominated by conservative Christian voters.

"As I have stated many times throughout the course of my public life, I believe that human life begins at conception," Gingrich said in a statement posted Saturday on his campaign's website and sent to Joshua Mercer at CatholicVote.org, a conservative political site that had first called attention to -- and sharply criticized -- Gingrich's statement.


Then Echidne nails the hypocrisy.  This is along the lines of what the bride always says: "Why is it that old men in suits are always the ones setting up the rules about abortion?":

Too bad Newt is not a woman. Then he could walk his talk. For instance, if he happened to get a ruptured ectopic pregnancy, he could just let himself die rather than have the fertilized egg removed. But even as a man he could start a giant movement to have all those frozen fertilized eggs in fertility clinics implanted in forced birthers.


Why is this even under discussion?  A woman's body is HER body and SHE gets to choose whether or not to be pregnant.  End of story.

 

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