The Republican Party platform on rape

Democracy4Sale wrote:

navycpo7 wrote:

Raees wrote: Now, all they have to do is make it a crime to use the day after pill so that the victim who was raped is forced to carry the fetus to childbirth and they'll be in line with the Republican platform. :thumbsup:

raees your just so full of crap you are pathetic. That is not the republican platform and you need to pull your head out of your arse.

Actually, no...

“Faithful to the ‘self-evident’ truths enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, we assert the sanctity of human life and affirm that the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed,” reads the party’s draft platform language. “We support a human life amendment to the Constitution and endorse legislation to make clear that the 14th Amendment's protections apply to unborn children.”

Delegates to the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., next week will vote on the resolution. Republican officials say it will almost certainly pass, according to CNN.

The platform is a fetal-personhood policy, and that precludes IUD's, morning-after pills, RU-486, and anything else that prevents pregnancy by interrupting the development of the fertilized egg.

With all due respect, the ones with their heads up their collective arses are the wacko GOP pro-life zealots.

I have to totally agree with you on the GOP idiots that would prevent a woman from making her own choice on her own body and her own issues. My personal belief is that it is up to the individual to decide what is right or wrong for her not anyone else.

Raees wrote:

navycpo7 wrote:

Raees wrote: Now, all they have to do is make it a crime to use the day after pill so that the victim who was raped is forced to carry the fetus to childbirth and they'll be in line with the Republican platform. :thumbsup:

raees your just so full of crap you are pathetic. That is not the republican platform and you need to pull your head out of your arse.

Actually, Navyco7, it IS the Republican Party Platform to ban abortion in all cases.

The uproar over Todd Akin has hit a new flash point: the Republican Party platform, which currently calls for a constitutional amendment to ban abortion in all cases, ruling out the exceptions for rape and incest that Mitt Romney supports. Republican Party officials insist that it’s a meaningful distinction. ”This is the platform of the Republican Party; it’s not the platform of Mitt Romney,” RNC chair Reince Priebus said on MSNBC. Democrats, however, insist that the official platform is representative of the entire party, which Romney would lead as president.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezr ... ly-matter/

You're the one who needs to pull his head out of his arse, since you don't even seem to know what your own party platform is.

So what is it, it is but it is not Romney's or it is not and it is Romney's can't have it both ways.

So we go back 100 yrs when women couldn't use birth control in this country. Yes, condoms were available, but they were delivered through the mail, if you could afford them. But, if you received them through the mail, then you were in violation of the Comstock Law, loosely interpreted by the Postmaster General of the time to include birth control devices and how to use them, instead of "obscene literature" and "immoral articles."

Women in this country, and the world, are continually fighting for their rights against idiots who don't want them to be equal citizens.

navycpo7 wrote: So what is it, it is but it is not Romney's or it is not and it is Romney's can't have it both ways.

It is, as I stated twice now, the Republican Party Platform. You said it wasn't, but it is.

The platform is the same one that the Republicans had in 2004 and 2008. It does not specifically forbid exceptions such as rape, it does not address them and leaves it to the states.

That language would appear to be incompatible with exceptions when pregnancies result from rape or incest. But the draft does not specifically address the issue of exceptions, and party leaders here said that the issue is too complex to be addressed in what is intended to be a broad statement of party principle, and that it should be left up to states in a federal system.

“We have a general plank in there that affirms our belief in the God-given right to life and that governments are instituted to protect that,” said Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell, chairman of the platform committee. “The specifics are largely left up to the states.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gop-party-platform-likely-to-stick-with-anti-abortion-stance-unlikely-to-address-rape-exception/2012/08/21/53a2bc2a-eb86-11e1-a80b-9f898562d010_story.html

The anti-abortion language was approved by the platform panel with little discussion and is nearly identical to what was in the Republican platform in 2008 and 2004.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/21/us-usa-campaign-republicans-abortion-idUSBRE87K14J20120821

It's not my position, I'm just clarifying things.