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Jon Huntsman is not some cute cuddly liberal being rebuffed by the mean-ole Republican party.
He is an anti-choice heir to billions who wants to be president for some reason.
He was the GOVERNOR OF UTAH. Think that through. He's not some cool moderate pranking the Republican party. He is moderate by the standards of Republican Governors of Utah.
Fuck the guy.
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Huntsman told the audience that there should be no truce on abortion when it comes to balancing social and economic issues. "I do not believe the Republican party should focus only on our economic life--to the neglect of our human life,"he said. "That is a trade we should not make. If Republicans ignore life, the deficit we will face is one that is much more destructive. It will be a deficit of the heart and of the soul."
Saying he "supported and signed every pro-life bill" he received, he talked about how he signed a trio of pro-life bills in February 2009 that the Utah legislature approved. Hunstman told the crowd, "I signed the bill that made second-trimester abortions illegal, and increased the penalty for doing so. I signed the bill to allow women to know the pain an abortion causes an unborn child. I signed the bill requiring parental permission for abortion. I signed the bill that would trigger a ban on abortions in Utah if Roe v. Wade was overturned."
http://www.issues2000.org/2012/Jon_Huntsman_Abortion.htm
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)That's it right there. WOMEN need to feel the pain, eh?
An unborn "child" is an imaginary human, a potential, unformed, a sentimental fantasy.....a woman is a living breathing person, but somehow these "people" (and I use the term loosely for creatures that have very few human qualities, at least the qualities we value most) don't extend dignity nor do they have the least crumb of empathy for her life.
Women feel enough pain without your ideology that demands we suffer MORE, that demands, in fact, that you as a man, HELP us SUFFER more, thank you very much.
If you're feeling so godly that you feel it your right to inflict pain on those for whom you have no empathy or understanding, perhaps you'd aid mankind far more by raining your fuuurious annnger down on people who harm actual living breathing people
cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)The last cuddly Republican was Chaffe, and I think he's an independent now.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)cuddly and Republican.....ack, does not compute!
Yes, using the word, "allow" is especially abominable. If only I were referring to snowmen!
Lionessa
(3,894 posts)throughout the pregnancy, unless it's a perfect pregnancy which few are, and of the actual birthing. It isn't like either the nine months or the day of are exactly picnics for mother and potential child. Why aren't they forced to be exposed to all the potential pain depending on their choice, not just the supposed pain of abortion?
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)niyad
(113,587 posts)dembotoz
(16,844 posts)really are
cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)Sorry, but calling limiting the size of give-away to the super rich is not class warfare and calling it class warfare is not a sane position.
Standard... Republican... Asshole.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)MNBrewer
(8,462 posts)That gives us with a 100% chance of a Republican candidate who doesn't. And if Obama doesn't win....