Coat Hanger Abortions Are Fine, Says MS Lawmaker, Because ‘Hey, You Have To Have Moral Values'

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Coat Hanger Abortions Are Fine, Says Mississippi Lawmaker, Because ‘Hey, You Have To Have Moral Values’
By Annie-Rose Strasser posted from ThinkProgress Health on May 15, 2012 at 1:06 pm

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A video obtained by Rachel Maddow’s blog captures Carpenter saying he is proud of Mississippi’s attempts to outlaw abortion outright, despite the fact that the Supreme Court has ruled abortions legal in the United States.

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And what about women who will perform self-induced abortions because they cannot afford to go out of state to get the procedure? “Hey,” he says, “you have to have moral values”:

It’s going to be challenged, of course, in the Supreme Court and all — but literally, we stopped abortion in the state of Mississippi, legally, without having to– Roe vs. Wade. So we’ve done that. I was proud of it. The governor signed it into law. And of course, there you have the other side. They’re like, ‘Well, the poor pitiful women that can’t afford to go out of state are just going to start doing them at home with a coat hanger. That’s what we’ve learned over and over and over.’

But hey, you have to have moral values. You have to start somewhere, and that’s what we’ve decided to do. This became law and the governor signed it, and I think for one time, we were first in the nation in the state of Mississippi

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/05/15/484326/mississippi-lawmaker-abortions-moral-values/

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1. And he revealed that the life of the woman is not valued

His morals place control over women's bodies over & above women's lives and their rights to make choices about their very own bodies.

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2. Why couldn't this statement be evidence of undue burden?

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It's a frank admission of the motive we've all known - they want to stop legal abortion by making it too hard to get. In Mississippi, that's what they have done. One last clinic is about to lose its license.

Isn't that what "undue burden" is all about? If a woman has to travel two or three states over to have a legal abortion and then again deal with waiting periods and other bullshit once there, how much more undue does the friggin burden have to be?

And I don't even want to get into this idiot daring to stand in judgment over the morality of people facing with the kinds of decisions an abortion entails. Fuck you, Bubba Carpenter.

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3. So, in Bubba's world

A woman (and make no mistake, for Bubba it's about women and not men) having sex he doesn't approve of is a greater offense against morality than someone bleeding out on the floor due to a botched abortion. I can't help wondering if he has any sisters, daughters, nieces, or granddaughters. I'm here to tell you, Bubba relatives, he would rather see you dead than sexually active.