Saturday, February 7, 2015

Another GOP Legislator Makes Insensitive Rape Comment

The Huffington Post: Another GOP Lawmaker Wades Into Rape Debate, by Laura Bassett:

A Republican state lawmaker said Thursday that women who become pregnant from sexual assault should not be exempt from an anti-abortion measure, because childbirth resulting from rape is "beautiful."

"Obviously rape is awful," West Virginia Del. Brian Kurcaba (R) said during a committee hearing on a new abortion restriction, according to David Gutman, a Charleston Gazette reporter. "What is beautiful is the child that could come from this." . . .

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