This week, in the new Republican controlled Congress, there has been what Talking Points Memo is calling “the GOP meltdown on abortion and rape.”
The House introduced a symbolic messaging bill that would have banned abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy, but it was pulled at the last minute after GOP women and swing-district lawmakers balked over a rape-exception provision that would have required rape victims to report the crime to authorities before having an abortion.
This kind of crap has a LOT of people, including republicans, wondering exactly what the GOP stands for. Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA) gave this quote about the priorities of House Republicans, as quoted by Talking Points Memo:
“Week one, we had a Speaker election
that didn’t go as well as a lot of us would have liked. Week two, we
spent a lot of time talking about deporting children, a conversation a
lot of us didn’t want to have. Week three, we’re debating reportable
rape and incest — again, not an issue a lot of us wanted to have a
conversation about. I just can’t wait for week four.”
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