Virginia Republican Says A Pregnant Woman Is Just A 'Host,' Though 'Some Refer To Them As Mothers'
Source: Huffington Post
A pregnant woman is just a "host" that should not have the right to end her pregnancy, Virginia State Sen. Steve Martin (R) wrote in a Facebook rant defending his anti-abortion views.
Martin, the former chairman of the Senate Education and Health Committee, wrote a lengthy post about his opinions on women's bodies on his Facebook wall last week in response to a critical Valentine's Day card he received from reproductive rights advocates.
"I don't expect to be in the room or will I do anything to prevent you from obtaining a contraceptive," Martin wrote. "However, once a child does exist in your womb, I'm not going to assume a right to kill it just because the child's host (some refer to them as mothers) doesn't want it." Martin then changed his post on Monday afternoon to refer to the woman as the "bearer of the child" instead of the "host."
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/24/steve-martin-virginia_n_4847959.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
gopiscrap
(23,757 posts)why do women vote for republicans?
shenmue
(38,506 posts)They're scared.
gopiscrap
(23,757 posts)my faith makes me NOT vote for republicans
calimary
(81,220 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,515 posts)that Republicans only value women for their reproductive functions and even then, they value the embryo or fetus more.
Sarah Ibarruri
(21,043 posts)The stupid ones are called, "Republican women."
gopiscrap
(23,757 posts)stage left
(2,962 posts)Many here in SC will tell you they vote this way because they're Christians. I used to believe in tolerance but now I'm becoming convinced that religion is the scourge of existence. I have little tolerance left for people who want to make women characters in The Handmaids Tale and the women who would, seemingly, be glad to take on those roles.
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markpkessinger
(8,395 posts). . . if a woman carrying the fetus is "just a host," then the fetus she is carrying can be viewed as "just a parasite."
truthisfreedom
(23,146 posts)And that politician is a life support system for an asshole.
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Baitball Blogger
(46,702 posts)and remove any doubt that they are assholes?
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)This is one of the most repulsive things I have heard from these GOP creatures in a long time.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)SCVDem
(5,103 posts)If slavery were still legal.
Their lives would be so much simpler without the constitution and other laws protecting a persons individual rights.
He seems to believe women are chattel.
Why does any woman have sex with these disgusting maggots?
Sarah Ibarruri
(21,043 posts)for purposes of impregnation - in a surgical setting, by a physician.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)a parasite?
olddad56
(5,732 posts)I have some reservations about this concept.
blackspade
(10,056 posts)What a brain dead dickbag.
Triana
(22,666 posts)I've said time and time again that the American Taliban (aka GOP) do not consider women human and this is at the crux of their attitudes and ongoing comments about women.
Now we can see and hear how true that is. They don't even try to hide anymore - that they consider women something less than human: breed cows. Incubators. "Hosts" upon which a parasite feeds.
6000eliot
(5,643 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Then we will think about that he next step. The more they open their stupid mouths the more stupid they appear. Dumb, dumb to the bone.
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yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)What a surprise!
wolfie001
(2,227 posts)calimary
(81,220 posts)Glad you're here! This is INFURIATING!!!!!!
Zambero
(8,964 posts)Hopefully, in the not too distant future, we will be referring to these people as "dinosaurs".
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,569 posts)this shit. Un freakin' real................
ck4829
(35,069 posts)Who will win this year's coveted Todd Akin Award for Greatness in the field of Medieval Gynecology Award?
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)some new Republican asswipe comes along and tops the last one. Un-freakin'-believable!
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)come out of the pie hole of a RWer, and I've heard some doozies in my day.
Loaded Liberal Dem
(230 posts)To me, that word conjures up images from the Alien films: a host is a human body infected by a destructive parasite which---Holy Fuck I just realized where the Tea Party came from!
gordianot
(15,237 posts)I would imagine his host is very proud of him if she is still among the living, or if he has children the host who carried his children or grandchildren serve only a biological function.
If asked he probably endorses the Ten Commandments. I can only contemplate my Republican Fathers reaction if I referred to my Mother as a host. Even though my own values differed from his this cold callous denigration would never have passed my lips.
Although not surprised I wonder if he thought this term in a premeditated manner or if it was a spontaneous thought?
Hekate
(90,662 posts)... because they believe their own mothers would have, if given the chance, aborted them.
They fear the female power to give life and to refrain from giving life.
Because that power so frightens them, their "pro-life" beliefs are really just their version of a "stand your ground" law. They will kill to assuage their fears. They will kill to keep women in their place.
Misogynists are cowards, just as SYG advocates are cowards.
Hekate
TeamPooka
(24,221 posts)Feral Child
(2,086 posts)His hatred of women is palpable.
PasadenaTrudy
(3,998 posts)A host. If you don't want kids, it makes sense. Whole other topic, though
randr
(12,412 posts)Fantastic Anarchist
(7,309 posts)Apparently they can't take the suggestions of their own internal memos. Let them hang themselves.
okaawhatever
(9,461 posts)is? Even the most pro-life woman should have issues with this guy.
Paladin
(28,254 posts)bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)ignorant horseshit about women!
NickB79
(19,233 posts)Mr. Martin apparently thinks of them more like this:
and this:
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,339 posts)... or is that "vassal"?