@Jaxk As usual, not even a nice try. The Republican Presidential Platform calls for a Personhood Amendment to the US Constitution. This would criminalize abortions in almost all circumstances including Rape. GOP VP candidate Paul Ryan co-sponsored a bill, HR 3, the first thing the GOP turned to after running on “Jobs. jobs, jobs” in 2010. If it had made it into law it would have criminalized virtually all abortions. It included a redefinition of rape, adding a new category called “Forcible Rape”—as opposed to all those good rapes—exactly what Rep Akin who co-sponsored HR-3 with Ryan “misspoke” about. Ryan’s plan would have essentially taken us back to the 1950s and back-alley coat-hanger abortions. In his time in Congress, Ryan has sponsored or co-sponsored or voted for 31 major Anti-choice bills that came down the pike.
The GOP’s person-hood Constitutional Amendment, now in the Party Platform AGAIN, is just as extreme as the one that far-right Louisiana rejected by 58% of the vote. Such an amendment would criminalize all abortions, even when the mother’s life was threatened by the pregnancy or she was raped. It would further outlaw the most popular forms of birth control, and virtually eliminate in-vitro fertilization to help infertile couples conceive. It’s so far right, it’s coming around to meet itself on the left. “Conservatives” now want a government so small it fits in every bedroom, every vagina, and even every egg cell in America. Now that’s small government for you—NOT!
And lest you try to weasel out by claiming that’s Ryan and not Romney, there is this.
The GOP needs to get this through their heads. What you do speaks louder than what you say.