republican congressman cliff stearns admits that he actually thinks women
should face criminal charges for abortion he was on a segment of hardball
with chris matthews and uh... msnbc with congress woman dot edwards from the
democratic side
and here we got to a key point this was a
fascinating for a minute clip but i'll just played the key seconds here where
they actually discuss whether there should be criminal charges or the woman
who chooses to have the abortion ethical a look at that exchange no portion
united request i'll answer the question of where i want my peers show you can
ill talk and i can answer the question where one
the question is should there be a law
preventing a woman
making abortion based upon sex selection to eliminate female embryos and that i
could be of wrong and i think you agree and donna also i think you find out if i
want to doing it
well i think they should be a prices should be against the largest like it's
a cancel or change your strength
i think the punishment should certainly the very serious issue because it isn't
one of several
which i didn't want he should be more than a civil cases
it should be something very serious because of the senate philomene as well
i think so
you are killing
an embryo and okay so i think the old woman who has an abortion
that should be criminal charges bliss
well a specific situation which will be seven abortion
he involved at that
but come on that the thing the context of this was the idea that women were
having abortions
dead that it's a serious an ongoing problem that women are having a boy sex
selection abortion ok now most abortion portions are taking place before you can
even though the gender of the baby number one
remember to totally subjective although some doctors have to be mind reader ok
because that means that just because you know
the gender of the baby
the doctor has to ascertain whether they believe the real reason even though
you're telling them that there's one reason you're having the abortion if
actually because you don't want a always and uh... you are having a boy for
example this is completely absurd it's making up a solution to a problem that
is not the real problem we should be focusing on
criminal charges for the woman is crazy time
yeah it reminds me of godfather to and just
one case tells michael there she wouldn't bring one of his son's into
this world and you eight oh
she will never do that again
uh... it's interesting maybe if it had been a girl she wouldn't have gotten the
abortion because
you know in that mafia family assign is gonna end up doing what michael does a
daughter will fight to be a housewife write-up you know in that sense i might
agree with the abortion maybe this is the planned to
create jobs louis maybe republicans want to create jobs by creating vaginal share
acts that would would basically be assigned to women to say
letting analyze and and mind read to determine what is the actual reason for
this person magical medical procedure that you were having with a doctor on
involve myself in that medical procedure even further
uh... arnott
it would be almost impossible to enforce
this sex elective abortion because i mean
what if the woman
with the only way they couldn't forces as if the woman admits
it's a sex elective abortion
yeah how can i mean would that be
suite that still be acceptable for you
um... nellie wooden because without justin i love it
based on
sex or figure after questions regarding our nation of sex selection abortion
i don't know what we've been talking about is don't think this is where
people like uh... cliff stearns should be doing this is this is faking
he doesn't really care about unborn fetuses in the way that he's saying he
does this is a distraction this is so these people don't have to do real work
they can convince voters there just god loving christians maybe we're not going
to notice the disasters that are actually taking place the fact of the
matter is uh... nobody should be
you know held account nobody should go to jail based on a medical procedure
that is done on their body there is a legal battle procedure is illegal
medical procedure for any reason
even a botched plastic surgery doctor michael the jail because of malpractice
that our patient should never go to jail because of a medical procedure as long
as it we'll
only obvious obvious okay
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