GOP rep.: Force women to have babies because abortion ‘robs men’ of fatherhood rights

[DonViejo]

By David Edwards
Wednesday, January 22, 2014 14:28 EST

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-MO) told conservative activists on Wednesday that women should be forced to carry their babies to term because abortion “robs men” of their right to be fathers.

Speaking at the 41st annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., Hartzler opined that “abortion hurts everyone.”

“It ends a beating heart, it leaves emotional wounds with women that they carry for life and it robs men of the privilege of fatherhood,” she said. “That’s why we must do everything in our power to end this devastating practice.”


Hartzler asserted that if abortion hadn’t been legalized, “perhaps we would have had a cure for cancer now.”

“Let us not become weary in doing good,” she advised the crowd. “For at the proper time, we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”

“We will continue to do all that we can here on Capitol Hill to ensure Americans born and yet to be born enjoy the most basic right to life.”

As Right Wing Watch pointed out, anti-LGBT activist Scott Lively used similar rhetoric, saying that abortion “robs” men just earlier this week.

Watch this video from C-SPAN, broadcast Jan. 22, 2013.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/22/gop-rep-force-women-to-have-babies-because-abortion-robs-men-of-fatherhood-rights/

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[antiquie]

1. Bwaaaah

Hartzler asserted that if abortion hadn’t been legalized, “perhaps we would have had a cure for cancer now.”

[newfie11]

2. Can we lock him up in a mental ward

He needs help

[Thinkingabout]

3. I am beginning to think Republican really cant help themselves.

We have one idiot who says a wife must have sex everytime her husband wants sex, another thinks a woman can't get pregnant during a rape. If these are not American Taliban thinking then it is past Taliban ways. This crap needs to stop. Maybe someone should tell the idiots there is a larger population of women to men and they are going to get a fight from a lot of women. This is disgusting.

[Mass]

4. Please proceed. Statements like that will help us.

I have more problems with people from the leadership who clearly think it is a winning issue and can speak about this without idiot comments. They are still wrong, but if they can talk about what most people agree with, even when they do not think it should be regulated, they can win this fight and restrict choice a lot.

[Aristus]

5. I guess Hartzler never considered the number of fathers who skipped out on

the mothers as soon as the testing water turned blue, and that that's one of the many reasons why a woman might consider an abortion.