Up in West Virginia, the debate over abortion rages on, and
brings all the wingnuts out in force.
The House of Delegates is discussing a new law that would
outlaw all abortions in the state after 20 weeks gestation because, as anti-abortion
activists — and these lawmakers — allege, at 20 weeks a fetus can feel pain and is
therefore too viable to abort.
Okay, but that’s not where the crazy, er, asshatted, comes
into play. That would be when Delegate Brian Kurcaba, a Republican, of
course, said, in the course of the discussion:
"For somebody to take advantage of somebody else in such a horrible and terrifying and brutal way is absolutely disgusting, but what is beautiful is the child that could come as a production of this."
Now, I can agree that children are beautiful — except when
they’re crying or spitting up and fussing or, well, okay, children are children — but
to say that a woman, who was raped, should be pleased that she’ll have a
beautiful child as a result of the experience is the ultimate indignity.
A child who results from a man forcibly having sex with a
woman against her will is a “beautiful” thing according to Kurcaba. He thinks a woman, in the midst of being violated, should console herself with the thought that, if she's lucky, everything will be beautiful if she ends up pregnant after the rape.
Kurcaba fits right into the GOP Anti-Women Bandwagon, taking a
seat alongside former Missouri Congressman Todd Akin, who said pregnancy can’t
result from rape because “if it’s legitimate rape, the female body has ways to
try to shut the whole thing down.” He’s nestled in
next to Indiana Senate candidate Richard
Mourdock, who said
that while sexual assaults are unfortunate, the resulting pregnancy is a “gift from
God,” and he’s probably sharing a soda with Libertarian Ron Paul, who implied that
women routinely fabricate rape stories in order to get abortions.
Kurcaba has since issued a statement apologizing to
"anyone who took my comments about the sanctity of human life to mean
anything other than that all children are precious regardless of
circumstances."
So, basically, he’s saying he meant what he said but he ‘s
sorry if you don’t like it.
