Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) appeared to return to his hardline stance on abortion in a recent interview, after suggesting in April that he had softened his position.
Earlier this year, Paul upset his social conservative allies by saying he wouldn’t try to outlaw abortion if he became president.
But in an interview with the American Liberty Association, the potential 2016 presidential candidate said he believes human fetuses deserve personhood rights — a move that would completely outlaw abortion.
“It is a big issue for me. I tell people that really it is all about when life begins,” Paul remarked. “You know, I’m a physician. One of the things I would do in my job is to go into the pediatric nursery and I would examine babies that are one-pound babies, looking in their eyes to try to make sure they didn’t suffer from blindness from being born prematurely.”
“And the interesting thing is when you’re in the neonatal nursery and you’ve got a one-pound baby, everybody acknowledges that that baby has rights, the Bill of Rights applies to that baby and nobody can hurt that baby,” he continued. “It’s a one-pound baby. But a week before, even a full-term seven-pound baby has no rights, according to the way people are looking at it, and I think that is a big mistake.”
So now the "libertarian" hero is not only fully on the forced birth train, but he's on the ridiculous "personhood" issue as well.
But please, explain to me again how he's not a Tea Party Republican.
Don't all ophthalmologists spend much of their time in Pediatric nurseries visiting the 1-lb babies?
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" He still helped the Bushies sell Iraq."
ReplyDeleteAnd knew who was who in the Valerie Plame outing and lied. Until her got before the grand jury. Eff Russert.
Eff them all, actually. They're all tools.
ReplyDeleteYes, Rand, you're a "physician." Sure.
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