{"id":11089,"date":"2007-06-11T14:45:59","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T18:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/11089.html"},"modified":"2007-06-11T14:45:59","modified_gmt":"2007-06-11T18:45:59","slug":"brownbacks-straight-talk-on-rape-and-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/brownbacks-straight-talk-on-rape-and-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Brownback’s straight talk on rape and abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to the available data, most Americans support abortion rights. That majority gets significantly bigger when Americans are asked whether women impregnated by a rapist should be legally able to terminate their pregnancy.<\/p>\n

And then there’s Sam Brownback<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sen. Sam Brownback, campaigning for president before the National Catholic Men’s Conference, questioned whether rape victims should get abortions.<\/p>\n

“Rape is terrible. Rape is awful. Is it made any better by killing an innocent child? Does it solve the problem for the woman that’s been raped?” the Kansas Republican asked at the St. Joseph’s Covenant Keepers gathering in Taylors.<\/p>\n

“We need to protect innocent life. Period,” Brownback said, bringing the crowd of about 500 to its feet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That “crowd of about 500,” of course, was made up entirely of men. Women are prohibited from the National Catholic Men’s Conference.<\/p>\n

As J. Goodrich noted<\/a>, “[N]obody in that audience has to worry about getting pregnant after rape or the possibility that he might die giving birth to the rapist’s child. There is something extremely distasteful about the combination of the all-male audience and this particular topic, a topic about forcing women to give birth whether they wish to do so or not.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to the available data, most Americans support abortion rights. That majority gets significantly bigger when Americans are asked whether women impregnated by a rapist should be legally able to terminate their pregnancy. And then there’s Sam Brownback. Sen. Sam Brownback, campaigning for president before the National Catholic Men’s Conference, questioned whether rape victims should […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}