Flippy-floppy Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) wants to be the president of the United States, so he’s decided to change his position on abortion. Again. According to Paul, abortion will lead to the downfall of civilization.
Earlier this year, Paul said that if he becomes president, he won’t try to outlaw abortion. You can imagine how well that went over with conservatives. Let’s just say they weren’t pleased.
In an effort to win over the anti-choice crowd, he said in an interview with the American Liberty Association, that he believes fetuses deserve personhood rights – and that would outlaw all abortions.
“It is a big issue for me. I tell people that really it is all about when life begins. You know, I’m a physician. One of the things I would do in my job is to go into the pediatric nursery and I would examine babies that are one-pound babies, looking in their eyes to try to make sure they didn’t suffer from blindness from being born prematurely.
“And the interesting thing is when you’re in the neonatal nursery and you’ve got a one-pound baby, everybody acknowledges that that baby has rights, the Bill of Rights applies to that baby and nobody can hurt that baby. It’s a one-pound baby. But a week before, even a full-term seven-pound baby has no rights, according to the way people are looking at it, and I think that is a big mistake.”
Paul mentioned that he introduced the Life at Conception Act of 2013 – a bill that would declare that human life begins at conception, therefore extending constitutional protections to a fetus.
He ended with, “I think, and I often say in my speeches, that I don’t think a civilization can long endure that doesn’t respect the rights of the unborn.”
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Kimberley A. Johnson (BIO) is the author of The Virgin Diaries and an activist for women’s rights. Like her on Facebook, Twitter or follow her on FB HERE. |
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