TX House Rep. John Lujan, if daughter raped: . "I would say no, we're going to have the baby."

[Demovictory9]

https://www.rawstory.com/extreme-texas-republican/

A Republican lawmaker fighting to hold onto his competitive Texas seat said Thursday he'd force a daughter to have her baby if she'd been impregnated by rape.

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'I would say no': 'Extreme' Texas Republican makes shocking declaration on public radio

A Republican lawmaker fighting to hold onto his competitive Texas seat said Thursday he'd force a daughter to have her baby if she'd been impregnated by rape.

Texas House Rep. John Lujan made this claim on Texas Public Radio during a lengthy interview about key campaign issues in his race against Democratic candidate Kristian Carranza.


“If I had a daughter, and that would have been, you know, it would have been a rape," Lujan said. "I would say no, we're going to have the baby.”


Lujan represents south Bexar County Texas House District 118, once a reliable win for Democrats until he won a 2021 special election and the 2022 midterms by 52 percent, according to TPR.

[Lovie777]

1. Yeah right..........................

[Silent Type]

2. Ask Dukakis about that kind of response. Of course, this comment is in rube red Texas.

[ProfessorGAC]

10. Can't Be That Red

He won in '22 with 52% of the vote.
Lots of those county positions went D in '22.
This may have been a really stupid thing to say in that district.

[LeftInTX]

18. That and the fact that he voted for vouchers in 2023. Hopefully, it will flip back to D.

It was flipped during a 2021 special election. However, it got gerrymandered afterward to keep Lujan in.

[Silent Type]

19. Yeah, 52% is not rube red. Hopefully, that comment will hurt him in November.

[PatrickforB]

3. WE're going to have the baby?????? WTF?

Does this guy think his daughter shouldn't have the least little tiny bit of say in WHETHER TO CARRY THE BABY OF A RAPIST TO TERM?????????????????????????????

[MLAA]

4. If I had a daughter....everything for hypocritical repugs is hypothetical until it happens to them.

The asshole doesn’t even have a daughter.

[hlthe2b]

5. Makes me suspicious of his "true" motives...

yes... I went THERE.

[Oopsie Daisy]

8. Yikes!

You stepped in it... but I think you'll be safe.

[hlthe2b]

9. I'll let the widely divergent prevalence numbers by party defend me.

[Oopsie Daisy]

13. Sounds like a good plan to me.

[TwilightZone]

6. Why is that shocking? And he didn't win *by* 52%.

Many Republicans don't believe that rape should be an exception. This shouldn't be shocking to anyone.

He won in 2022 with 52% of the vote, not by 52%.

[maxsolomon]

34. It's not shocking to me. This is consistent with typical Anti-Choice absolutism.

It's all stuff by RW Catholic relatives would say: the fetus has the right to gestation and birth; it's not the fetus' fault that it's a product of rape, why should the child be killed for the sin of it's father, etc.

It's all hypotheticals, so holding to idealized positions is easy.

[Raven123]

7. Who is "we?"

[Ocelot II]

11. "WE'RE going to have the baby"? There's no WE in that scenario, asshole.

There's only the raped, traumatized daughter who will have to endure a pregnancy and childbirth that she didn't expect, want or ask for. There's no we, there's only her. What kind of a father would wish that kind of pain on his own daughter?

[LeftInTX]

22. Probably not Lujan. I'm serious. He would probably quickly get it taken care of in another state.

I think he's just spouting BS. Maybe he thinks his district will support this. It's a flipped district, but it's a conservative Democratic district.

I met a few Democrats who would not vote for Beto in 2022 because he supported abortion. "I will vote for every Democrat on the ballot but him" was the response I got. Just mentioning the "A" word is kinda like "coming for your guns".

[unblock]

12. "We" would seem to imply that he would be the rapist in that scenario, right?

[LeftInTX]

14. Alot of Democrats voted for Lujan. Unfortunately, not considered, "extreme" by many. Hope he's voted out by Kristian!

This district was flipped from D to R during a special election in 2021. Lujan touts his firefighter connections.

He supports vouchers and that's reason enough to vote him out!

[marble falls]

15. So I'm guessing that the daighter has no say in the matter.

[Srkdqltr]

16. I won't take this seriously until the rapist is found and prosecuted. Dna tells all.

[Windy Apple]

17. Is he most-likely...

the Daddy??

[IcyPeas]

20. Even if said daughter was 12 years old?

I'm pretty sure some men just do not understand the trauma of rape.

[Liberal In Texas]

21. It apparently won't matter what his daughter wants.

Kids like his daughter are being brainwashed.

[LeftInTX]

23. He doesn't have a daughter.

[struggle4progress]

27. +

[malaise]

24. We?

What the fuck!

[Demovictory9]

25. I know

[Grins]

26. "We...?" NM

[keithbvadu2]

28. Is he married? What if it was his wife?

[kacekwl]

29. Forced against her will

by a rapist then by her father. Who the fuck does he think he is ? Does he have a daughter ?

[Johonny]

30. Well, the rapist would say that.

[MagickMuffin]

31. He's trying to walk it back but the article was behind paywall

I guess he had to try and clarify his grotesque remarks. I did see an article where he adopts boys to save their lives, or so said the article.

[LeftInTX]

32. Link here:

Last edited Fri Sep 27, 2024, 06:56 PM - Edit history (1)

San Antonio Republican clarifies abortion stance after criticism over rape exception comments
https://archive.ph/0LoL3

Yeah, yeah, yeah....blah, blah, blah

You know if I was asked that question, I would have replied that it would be my daughter's decision.

[MagickMuffin]

35. It's interesting that he'd even bring it up since he has no girls

And plus they are bringing it back to the Texas Supreme Court to make sure our reproductive rights are still considered the state’s rights to deny any medical treatment at all, even with more Texas women dying have want to ensure it once and for all.

[LeftInTX]

37. It was during an interview with TPR. Not gonna listen to all 45 minutes.

https://www.texasdemocrats.org/media/audio-john-lujan-says-he-would-force-daughter-to-birth-a-rape-related-pregnancy

[NBachers]

33. I won't even say it, but . . .

[keep_left]

36. This has become the mainstream position among right-to-lifers.

If you have any doubt, tune in the culture-war shows on pretty much any religious right media network, particularly those affiliated with conservative or radtrad Catholicism (EWTN, Relevant Radio). Positions like this are reiterated multiple times a day, not as opinion, but as dogma. There are any number of thought-terminating clichés used as justification: "killing the baby doesn't make the rape go away", "abortion creates another tragedy", etc. The propaganda is quite carefully thought out by these people.