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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLauren Boebert Says Rape Victims Need Guns Rather Than Access to Abortion
Boebert branded the Democrat lawmakers "baby-killing advocates" and accused them of "spewing lies and half truths" following the passage of a bill in Texas that bans abortions in almost all circumstances after six weeks.
The argument that women who have been raped should have access to an abortion is "wrong," said Boebert, a gun rights advocate. She suggested that these women simply needed to be armed.
"If I'd been forced to carry my rapist's child, I would have ended my life. But Lauren Boebert doesn't actually care about rape victims."
Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, which was set up in the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre, posted: "WTF: Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert blames rape victims for their own assaults, saying they should have been armed to fend off rapists.
"The vast majority of rape victimsmore than two-thirdsare assaulted by someone they know."
https://www.newsweek.com/lauren-boebert-rape-guns-abortion-glock-texas-guns-1631843
oioioi
(1,127 posts)Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) sparked outrage on Monday when she suggested companies that are offering to pay the travel costs for employees to receive abortions are just doing it to save on paying for parental leave instead.
Anyone else consider that these companies suddenly offering to pay for employee abortions are doing so just to avoid paying for maternity leave? she asked on Twitter.
Cheaper to kill the baby... true evil personified, Boebert said.
Anyone else consider that these companies suddenly offering to pay for employee abortions are doing so just to avoid paying for maternity leave?
Cheaper to kill the baby... true evil personified.
Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) May 16, 2022
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lauren-boebert-abortions-maternity-leave-theory_n_62833d19e4b003ed2965c4d7?fr=operanews
DURHAM D
(32,609 posts)betsuni
(25,482 posts)oioioi
(1,127 posts)Lauren Boebert delivered a speech to an audience at the Family Camp Meeting at Charis Christian Center in Colorado Springs, during which she said "I do want you to know that I pray for our President. Psalm 109:8 says, 'May his days be few and another take his office".
The crowd then broke into loud giggles before Lauren Boebert went on saying "Hallelujah! Glory to God".
https://www.albawaba.com/node/congresswoman-lauren-boebert-prays-biden%E2%80%99s-death-video-1480400
oioioi
(1,127 posts)Boebert initially failed to disclose in 2020 and 2021 her husbands nearly $500,000 annual consulting income despite ethics and campaign finance laws that require candidates and members of Congress to disclose sources of income of immediate family members, along with major investments and assets, so that voters can determine potential conflicts of interest. Boebert is a fierce proponent of the oil and gas industry.
I dont know of a consultant with no qualifications who makes $500,000 a year off of one client, Coram said.
When a Colorado Newsline reporter reached Boebert by phone seeking comment, she answered, saying I have an idea, dont call this number again. Boebert then hung up on the reporter.
Her campaign subsequently declined an email request for an interview.
https://www.rawstory.com/lauren-boeberts-gop-challenger-fires-back-after-she-accuses-him-of-corruption/
dalton99a
(81,475 posts)Celerity
(43,339 posts)I guess a trip or two to 'Tot-Suckers Я Us' (what the vermin Empty G called abortion clinics last year) is oki if you plan on becoming an elected Rethug.
Their hypocrisy and christofash shitbaggery knows no bounds, has no bottom.
herding cats
(19,564 posts)I think that's something we can all agree on.
Journeyman
(15,031 posts)The vast majority of us have no business carrying weapons, don't know how to use them, wouldn't employ them quickly enough, and in the end would be found to have done little more than provide our assailant with another weapon, the one we brought with us.
And unless she were attacked on a shooting range, with her weapon drawn and her assailant no more than a paper silhouette, I suspect Lauren Boebert would prove every bit as incompetent with defending herself physically as she is intellectually.
IngridsLittleAngel
(1,962 posts)Do as I say, not as I do... Right Bang Bang? Abortions for me, not for thee.
Can she even go one second without thinking about guns? Look, we all have our fetishes. I get that. But most of us have fetishes that aren't weapons of mass murder.
Whether it's worshiping guns or attacking LGBTQ's or praying for Biden's death, it's a neverending stream of stupid and evil that comes out of this psycho's mouth.
Vinca
(50,269 posts)AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)Christ on a crutch shes dangerously nuttier than ever.
LizBeth
(9,952 posts)with murder. This has always been stupid the argument being kill the rapist. No way would our male oriented society embrace this.