paul ryan on abortion: "we want a country where it isn't even considered"

[niyad]

Paul Ryan On Abortion: 'We Want A Country Where It Isn't Even Considered'



WASHINGTON -- Rep. Paul Ryan, the Republican vice presidential nominee in 2012 and an abortion opponent, said Thursday that anti-abortion activists should try to build a broad coalition and find common ground with supporters of abortion rights as a way to advance their agenda.

Ryan, R-Wis., said in a speech to the Susan B. Anthony List that those who oppose abortion "need to work with people who consider themselves pro-choice – because our task isn't to purge our ranks. It's to grow them."

"We don't want a country where abortion is simply outlawed. We want a country where it isn't even considered," he said.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/11/paul-ryan-abortion_n_3065932.html

[sakabatou]

1. Except that'd be illegal

[Journeyman]

2. So do I. But until such an unlikely scenario comes to pass, I favor choice for all . . .

[Tx4obama]

3. So is he now pro-sex education and PRO FREE birth control for all? No, I didn't think so. n/t

[niyad]

4. of course not. women, after all, are just brood mares.

[CBHagman]

9. And don't forget affordable health care for all.

Where are all those antiabortion politicians when a family is bankrupted due to medical bills, when a man dies before his wedding because he wasn't insured and didn't get adequate medical care, when an insurance company decides that in the middle of chemo is the perfect time to drop someone's coverage, when a young boy dies because hid abscessed tooth wasn't extracted in time?

It's much, much easier to oppose something, to say one isn't going to budge or compromise, than to create access to medical care.

[ThomThom]

38. that is right, he needs to make sure there are no unplanned or unwanted pregnancies

no teen pregnancies
no accidental pregnancies
no rape pregnancies
not an easy goal

[smirkymonkey]

5. I'm sorry, but f**k Paul Ryan up the A**

with a chainsaw. He has no right to an opinion on this issue and he just needs to keep his fat mouth shut.

[niyad]

6. I think a lot of us feel this way. every time I see that smug, woman-hating face of his, I want

to wipe that smirk off. and that smug face reminds me of a line from "guess who's coming to dinner?"--isabel sanford's character, the housekeeper, tilly, talking to sidney poitier's character, dr. john prentiss "and furthermore to that, you ain't even all that good-lookin."

[shraby]

7. I would suggest he looks around the world and moves to one like that.

[MotherPetrie]

8. Then let's start with you, you abortion-obsessed asshole. STOP CONSIDERING IT.

Shut the FUCK UP, and take your fucking nose out of American women's reproductive organs.

[AtomicKitten]

10. And we want a country where douchebags like Ryan

... aren't considered for public office.

[calimary]

11. Amen!

[niyad]

12. this is so true

[The Flaming Red Head]

13. Ryan says it while he's cutting the SS checks of the grandparents

who need the money to help them care for all these grandchildren they didn't expect to have to raise.

Edited to add: anyone else notice how much Ryan looks like Eddie monster?

[niyad]

23. I believe his resemblance to eddie was pointed out during the campaign. eddie should sue.

[ellie]

14. And I would like a country where someone like Paul Ryan

does not hold any position of power.

[Heather MC]

15. Someone needs to let Paul Ryan know about Texas Republicans

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They tried de-funding Women's Health Clinics. Once they realized how much it was going to cost the State to care for All babies being born in the Welfare system. They decided to attempt to start funding the Clinics again.


It maybe a good idea in Theory, but Republicans hate poor people getting free money way more than they despise Abortion.

[Arkana]

16. Then I look forward to Congressman Ryan's votes in favor

of mandatory sex education, birth control covered by insurance and availability over the counter in all 50 states, and mandated pre-natal care for pregnant women.

What's that? He won't actually do any of that shit and is just a religious nut who thinks women are all baby breeding machines?

[niyad]

17. bingo

[Amonester]

32. All he really cares about is raising more money for himself and that's about it. nt

[WI_DEM]

18. We want a country where Paul Ryan will never be president

[niyad]

19. where he is an unemployed has-been, and it's "paul who??"

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[jmowreader]

20. He wants anal sex to be called the Paul Ryan Position?

It has a bit of a ring to it...but unless he wants to make abstinence-only sex ed punishable by hard time, make contraception free to all,,mandate condom distribution in schools and destigmatize their use, and increase recreational opportunities for youth in small towns so the kids have something to do at night besides sex, drinking and drugs, and fund social spending so the people who have all the babies he wants can afford to feed them, he can shut the hell up about banning abortion.

[niyad]

22. and now we have some legislator in OH (I think) who is proposing a $5k fine for any teacher who

so much as mentions contraception, or teens having sex. also wants to defund PP and give all the money to those xian-based crisis pregnancy centers.

it just keeps getting more insane by the day.

[jmowreader]

33. The most insane thing about it all

The people who want abortion banned, their favorite word is freedom. But all the countries that have instituted abortion bans that actually stopped abortion (unlike, say, Ireland where you just go to England if you're healthy enough to travel) are dictatorships like Romania and El Salvador.

[Third Doctor]

21. God I can't stand this man.

If he would mind his owned damned business and do something productive for once it would be a start. He is the poster boy for what's wrong with the GOP.

[MBS]

29. " " " " " n/t

[JHB]

37. I like to remind people that he's been in congress for longer than...

...Ted Kennedy was at the same age, and spent most of his previous adulthood in similar "resume grooming" jobs. It's actually neither here nor there, but in never hurts to remind the RWers that he is, in fact, precisely the kind of "career politician" they regularly rail against.

[Carolina]

24. What an idiot

Abortion was considered and performed before it was legal, so making it illegal will not make it go away...Poof!

We will simply return to the old days when there was more maternal morbidity and mortality. Plus, where there is a product or a service that people want, there will be purveyors of said product or service... just look at drugs. For the rich, a safe abortion (framed as something else like D&C for dysfunctional uterine bleeding) will be a plane ride away. For the poor... a lysol douche, a coat hanger, a back alley butcher.

Ryan is an idiot who should have been aborted.

[CobaltBlue]

25. Consideration for Paul Ryan

I consider Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin #01) a sociopath.

It is distrurbing that the Republican party nominated him as Mitt Romney's vice-presidential running mate for 2012. Given Romney's coldness, to those who are among the have-nots (which is the overwhelming majority of the United States), somehow it was an appropriate second-banana selection.

I think Paul Ryan makes Sarah Palin seem somewhat sane. (If the standard is based on which of the two is less dangerous.)

[niyad]

26. and the trouble is, your last statement is frigtheningly accurate.

[lexx21]

27. Who the fuck is "we"? That gooney bastard doesn't speak for me under..

any circumstance.

I find it amazing how republican men want to control what women do with their bodies. That's sort of like... well..... the Taliban way of thinking.

[niyad]

28. exactly--I have been pointing out for many years the eerie similarities between fundies here

and their fundie counterparts elsewhere. it needs to be pointed out at every single opportunity, until everyone finally gets it. I worry far more about what the xian fundamentalist right in this country is doing, and the fact that they are no longer even pretending is very worrisome indeed.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

30. There's going to be a lot of babies

can we feed them all?

[niyad]

31. of course not, but that isn't their problem, right?

[juajen]

34. Republicans do not believe in democracy. It gets in the way of their idealogy.

[niyad]

35. and those pesky women--imagine thinking they should have the right to control their own bodies!

[niyad]

36. . . .

[sofa king]

39. Then why doesn't he fucking go to THAT country?

Which is not and never shall be this one.

There are plenty of countries he can go to if he wants all abortion to be illegal. Three, to be exact: Vatican City, Chile, and El Salvador.

[niyad]

40. . . . .

[LeftishBrit]

41. I wish his parents had considered it...

[niyad]

42. don't we all!!

[niyad]

43. . . .