a republican state senator just justified a draconian west Virginia
bill that would ban abortions after eight weeks even in the case of rape.
Okay, now he defended this in one of the grossest way possible.
He was talking about emails he gets
from advocates of abortion rights who had been abused.
Then this happened quite often.
What these emails say is that that first
abuser was a teacher or a pastor or a coach.
And you know, the dynamic in these relationships quite often is
that the child has a very romanticized view of what's happening.
They think this is their boyfriend.
Would you agree with that?
I don't know what you're talking about, sir.
Can you imagine ever thinking that a rape victim
would have a romanticized view of her rapist?
Does he not understand what rape is rape is when someone forces
themselves sexually onto a person who does not want it.
No one who is a rape victim romanticizes that situation.
Ever, ever ever.
This is the sick thought process that conservative men in positions of
power have in this country.
Certainly in a place like West Virginia.
In other words,
he's saying he can't support an amendment to allow abortions for rape and incest for
victims who don't report the abuse to police because rape victims,
by the way he thinks often have these romantic feelings toward their abusers.
That is what he said there.
State Senator.
Yeah, go ahead.
I just wanted to give a few more details about who this guy is and then I want to
hear what you have to say, Emma, because if you're wondering who is this guy?
State senator robert Karnes, he made his remarks during
a debate on a highly controversial abortion bill that passed 21 to 10.
But luckily it failed to be reconciled with a House version that does not
currently appear to be moving forward.
The house backed version included exceptions for rape, incest,
up to eight, up to 14 weeks of gestation and
if a report was made to a qualified law enforcement officer,
which by the way, bad enough, but apparently wasn't extreme enough for
the state Senate, the Senate changed the measure scaling it back to allow for
exceptions in cases of rape or incest until eight weeks.
So the Senate version was even more extreme.
Okay, go ahead, Emma, I'm so disgusted by this story.
Me too.
Someone should check this guy's hard drive.
Like I'm not even joke because this kind of logic is what
pedophiles say when they're trying to justify their abuse of
Children because they're he specifically if I'm wrong and
if I'm not wrong, he's talking about a child, right?
Because he's basically saying, you know,
they were kinda how could the rapist No, right?
Because the girl was into it?
Like she was asking for it.
So they have a romanticized impression of the man
that raped them and because it wasn't in his mind,
I'm sure a movie depiction of a rape where someone is
forced down and violated and their mouth is covered.
It doesn't count.
I mean, we know people are saying that those kids can't consent, but
like she was kind of into it.
She was asking for it.
So of course she can consent.
The guy has no concept of what a power imbalance is.
Yes.
Sometimes Children who are molested and
abused develop an attachment to their abuser because the abuser
portrays their sexual violence and abuse and rape of that child as love.
And it causes a lot of ramifications for victims of that kind of violence
because they associate this complete violation with affection and love.
It causes mass psychological trauma.
But the only way for predators to justify that in their mind is
to claim that that power imbalance doesn't exist.
That the 45 year old man and the 14 year old girl, hey, you know,
she was loving me, she was into it and she developed romantic feelings for me.
So of course it has to be just, It really is.
I mean, let's just let's just call this exactly what it is.
Let's be very clear about it.
And for all the people who are like, and is being hyperbolic, you're an idiot.
I'm not being hyperbolic.
He just did it openly Okay in official government proceedings,
he is providing cover for child rapists and he's doing so specifically to ensure
that the victim doesn't have the ability to get an abortion after being raped.
That is what he did.
He's providing cover for child rapists and to add insult to injury.
He wants to prevent that child's ability to get an abortion if she
ends up getting impregnated by her rapist, by her abuser.
This is who republicans are, Yeah.
Who are the who are the groomers dude?
Who are the groomers here?
Because you're literally in the same breath as I'm sure this guy has opinions
about trans people and gay teachers in their classrooms calling them groomers.
I'm sure he has that opinion is saying that child Children Romanticize
their rapists and that that's you know, you can get it, you can understand,
put your mind in in the mind walk a mile in this child rapist shoes.
You totally get why he thought that that that 13 year old was
coming on to him psycho truly.
And guess what he is outraged that anyone dare call him out for
providing cover for child rapists.
I'm not even kidding.
So while West Virginia news outlets failed to report Senator Carne's remarks,
video of his comments were were circulated on social media by
democratic state senator Joey Garcia.
Senator kearns lashed out at Garcia tweeting on saturday quote,
I would expect better from little Joey but not a lot better.
He does represent a party that protects groomers and pedophiles.
I mean the goal that you just provided cover for
child rapists, you disgusting piece of crap.
Okay.
And and it's just it's amazing this is who they are.
This is who they are.
Here's more like everything we see about the democrats.
Even the outrage is fake.
Yeah because it's fake outrage when you hear someone provide cover for
child rapists and you think it's wrong.
That's fake outrage.
According to him the amendment will make it easier for groomers
to convince their victims to abort a child called it called inside the evidence.
They will continue sexually abusing that child and likely others because dems
protect them from just no no robert yufu pa mother effort.
Okay.
No okay you're providing cover for child rapists and
you're doing so to protect what I don't want to protect no one and
nothing to ensure that you further victimize the rape victim by forcing
her to be pregnant for nine months regardless of how old she is by the way.
And and like maybe do a little reading understand what pregnancy does to
a woman's body and then after that nine months you're gonna
force that rape victim to go through the traumatic process of childbirth.
These people are disgusting.
They're monsters.
That's what they are.
That's it and they turn around and they accuse the left of being
predators because they want to provide a welcoming environment for
students who might be members of the LGBTQ community.
No that doesn't amount to abuse.
That amounts to creating a good environment for students to learn in.
They don't want that.
They hate education.
They've shown us time and
time again with their defunding efforts of public education.
But it is amazing.
It is mask off these Republican lawmakers on a state and federal level.
Their masks are off.
They protect rapists, they victimize rape victims and they do it proudly.
And if you dare call them out on it,
they think they're the ones who are the victims,
disgusting garbage West Virginia needs to get rid of these disgusting lawmakers.
You if you want to identify as a Conservative Republican, great, but
can you at least in the very minimum, very minimum.
I'm not asking much elect conservative republicans who
don't provide cover for rapists.
Is that too hard to ask?
It's insane.
But thanks for the levity with the right his mask is off.
But there's nothing that can hide that few pa I mean,
I haven't heard in 10 years like, thank you so much for that.
You're welcome