Revealed: Matthew Whitaker favors hardline anti-abortion policies
Source: Guardian
Remarks from Trumps acting attorney general position the conservative Christian as an even more forceful opponent of abortion that his predecessor.
A review by the Guardian of previously unreported remarks revealed Whitaker has advocated for hardline anti-abortion policies that would drastically reshape laws affecting American women seeking to terminate a pregnancy.
Whitaker, a conservative Christian, endorsed personhood bills that would effectively outlaw abortion, and said as a Senate candidate that he would spend every day in Washington pushing anti-abortion policy.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/26/revealed-matthew-whitaker-anti-abortion-policies
A person like Whitaker makes it clear to me that anti-abortion is not about their religious beliefs, it is about controlling women.
PSPS
(13,598 posts)My late father said to me fifty years ago about anti-abortion zealots:
"They don't want to control abortion. They just want to control."
Blue Owl
(50,373 posts)SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)That SOB must go. He has absolutely no qualifications to be Attorney General. Trump has no qualifications to be "president", and we can all see what a fucking disaster that's been. Let's not compound the country's ills by allowing this human toilet plunger to make any decisions about the legality of anything before we can get rid of him.
Eugene
(61,894 posts)Whitaker is one of the crazies.
bluestarone
(16,940 posts)silverweb
(16,402 posts)They even admit it once in a while.
ProfessorGAC
(65,042 posts)What a troglodyte, she is.
silverweb
(16,402 posts)And there are way too many like her.
niyad
(113,303 posts)niyad
(113,303 posts)not fooled
(5,801 posts)mr. "Christian", but it's OK to rip off veterans via phony schemes?????