Punishing women with the death penalty would cut abortions, Idaho candidate says

[G_j]

http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/election/article207845019.html

April 03, 2018 03:36 PM
Updated April 04, 2018 06:41 PM

A Republican lieutenant governor candidate on Tuesday softened his stance that women who get an abortion should be punished if it is ever criminalized in Idaho, a day after saying the punishment should include the death penalty.

“Prosecutions have always been focused on the abortionist,” said Bob Nonini in a statement. “There is no way a woman would go to jail let alone face the death penalty. The statute alone, the threat of prosecution, would dramatically reduce abortion. That is my goal.”

Nonini first raised eyebrows on the divisive social issue during a Monday candidate forum in Moscow hosted by the conservative Christian podcast CrossPolitic.

“There should be no abortion and anyone who has an abortion should pay,” Nonini said.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. I appreciate his honesty, didnt he say killing women would do it?

Anyway, con men do want to control your sex life if you are a woman.

They want you to ask for permission to have sex, also they want to have sex with you and since no woman in her right mind would do that, they are pretty pissed.

I wish other con men would be this honest, that way the IDJITS that vote for them could see

[MFM008]

2. Like ALL women.

These sick bastards are as much of woman haters as Jack the Ripper.

[phylny]

3. Pro-life, in a nutshell.

[Sophia4]

4. Male, of course.

Never had a baby.

Never lost a baby.

Doesn't know what he is talking about.

[TreasonousBastard]

5. Well, the death penalty would certainly reduce the chances of a second abortion.

[meadowlark5]

6. But he doesn't care about the living, breathing, walking on the earth child that can get

torn to pieces with an AR15. A person who has an extended family who loves them, friends who love them, maybe are the star of their football team or school theater.

I'm sorry, but a ball of cells or even a 12wk old fetus isn't loved by many, depended on by many. It's a living organism inside a uterus and sometimes means nothing to anyone. But that life is priceless in the eyes of the Christian conservatives. But once outside, if that life is taken by a gunshot - why that's just the price of freedom.

This obsession with the unborn and the total lack of compassion for the living child is so fucked up

[unblock]

7. don't laugh. these people will soon find a "pro-life" justification for killing democrats so they

can enact their version of sharia law.

[argyl]

10. Yep.These Trump gun bumpers don't fantasize about taking on the Armed Forces.

They see themselves as an auxiliary force to kill liberals in an authoritarian Trump regime.
I’m not imagining this; wack jobs I’ve worked with and come across have said as much to me.
I’ll just laugh at them to their faces but that a sizeable minority of the population feels this way is disturbing, to say the least.

[ProudLib72]

12. Like this?

[unblock]

13. yeah, and he's hardly the first. ann coulter was years ahead of this.

[ProudLib72]

14. The main problem here is that Coulter was just a RW bimbo

This is the "president"! It is unfortunate that he picked up the RWNJs talking points and ran with them.... publicly.... loudly....

[unblock]

15. these things are related.

ann coulter should have been shunned like a pariah after those calls for violence and similarly outrageous comments.

but the media decided long ago that outrageous left-wing statements are unamerican, criminal, career-ending, unforgiveable sins; while outrageous right-wing statements are entertaining, insightful political analyses that grab many eyeballs.

so the early cries for violence against lefties that once only people like coulter dared to utter in public became normalized.

to the point that a presidential candidate could say such things and hardly suffer from it, rather than instantly being disqualified.

[ProudLib72]

17. Yes, sensationalist remarks by the right are accepted by the MSM

I don't know if that is because the MSM really believes those remarks to be insightful or just good for ratings. However, I will agree that they caused enough damage over a long enough period of time that it allowed for the normalization of the crap tRump spews.

The question in my mind is, How do we regain some control and put those statements back in the category of "clearly a minority view"? So far we have had two mini-revolutions that have regained some control: MeToo and NeverAgain. I call those "mini-revolutions" because the scope of each is limited. They have worked extremely well, but I fear we have a long way to go before we can drive the entire RWNJ narrative back under its rock.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. Too bad his mom didn't have one.

I hate, literally hate, people like him.

NO clue.

No heart.

NO brains.

[struggle4progress]

9. What if we cut out the tongues of people who said stupid stuff?

[procon]

11. Trump said the same thing, punish women, but not the men who made them pregnant. nt

[pansypoo53219]

16. NEVER pro-life. they are pro-FETUS, because they do not give a shit after birth.