Rick Perry is a dangerous fool

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Rick Perry: Legislature Will Work Out Punishment for Women Seeking Later Abortions Under Proposed Ban

by Andrea Grimes
December 17, 2012 - 1:24pm


Texas' Gov. Rick Perry has thrown his support behind a potential 20-week abortion ban in the state, but his office told RH Reality Check that he'll leave it up to legislators to determine the appropriate punishment for women who get later-term abortions.

After Perry's appearance at a Houston crisis pregnancy center last week, RH Reality Check asked his office whether he supported any exceptions to the yet-to-be-proposed law, such as for cases of rape, incest, or the life of the pregnant person. His office's answer: "those details will be worked out by the Legislature."

We also wondered: what does Gov. Perry imagine the punishment should be for women who seek abortions after 20 weeks, were Texas to ban such procedures?

His office responded not with the usual anti-choice dithering about punishing doctors instead of abortion-seekers, but with a clear admission that punishment for these women is in order: "That will also be decided by the Legislature." ....................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2012/12/17/rick-perry-punishment-women-who-seek-later-term-abortions-to-be-worked-out-by-law

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1. Enjoy it while you can assboy - the demographics are closing on you and your ilk

When Texas joins the rolls of blue states, it'll be hard to get a RepubliKKKan in the WH. There are hundreds of thousands of unregistered people who, in all probability, are Democratic voters and getting them to the polls should be of the highest priority.

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2. So what will the penalty be?

Well, it's Texas...