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JI7

(89,248 posts)
Wed Jun 15, 2022, 01:10 AM Jun 2022

Lauren 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 victims—more than two-thirds—are assaulted by someone they know."

https://www.newsweek.com/lauren-boebert-rape-guns-abortion-glock-texas-guns-1631843

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oioioi

(1,127 posts)
1. Rep. Lauren Boebert Cooks Up Conspiracy Theory About Companies Covering Abortion Costs
Wed Jun 15, 2022, 01:13 AM
Jun 2022

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

oioioi

(1,127 posts)
4. Congresswoman Lauren Boebert Prays for Biden's Death on Video
Wed Jun 15, 2022, 01:18 AM
Jun 2022

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)
5. Lauren Boebert's GOP challenger fires back after she accuses him of corruption
Wed Jun 15, 2022, 01:25 AM
Jun 2022

Boebert initially failed to disclose in 2020 and 2021 her husband’s 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 don’t 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, don’t 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/

Celerity

(43,339 posts)
7. Is not she a baby killer too, according to her definition and her newly exposed history?
Wed Jun 15, 2022, 01:33 AM
Jun 2022

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)
8. Yep, she's vile and a hypocrite playing a roll to con her constituents.
Wed Jun 15, 2022, 01:34 AM
Jun 2022

I think that's something we can all agree on.

Journeyman

(15,031 posts)
9. Sadly, if we were all armed, most of us would have just brought a weapon for our assailant . . .
Wed Jun 15, 2022, 01:39 AM
Jun 2022

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)
10. Rep. Sugar Daddy Meet says what?
Wed Jun 15, 2022, 02:40 AM
Jun 2022

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.

AngryOldDem

(14,061 posts)
12. Can somebody fit this creature for a muzzle?
Wed Jun 15, 2022, 08:19 AM
Jun 2022

Christ on a crutch — she’s dangerously nuttier than ever.

LizBeth

(9,952 posts)
13. As soon as a woman/girl shoots a man for attempted rape, she will be charged
Wed Jun 15, 2022, 10:44 AM
Jun 2022

with murder. This has always been stupid the argument being kill the rapist. No way would our male oriented society embrace this.

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