April 3, 2018/Idaho GOP candidate calls for executing women who end pregnancies. (He's not alone)

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Idaho GOP candidate calls for executing women who end pregnancies
By Matthew Chapman - April 3, 2018

At a Republican candidate forum for Idaho lieutenant governor, state Sen. Bob Nonini stated that he believed women who seek abortions should be put to death on a “case by case” basis.

The forum was hosted by the Christian podcast CrossPolitic, who posed the question of whether women should face capital punishment for abortion. Nonini responded, “Yes. There should be no abortion and anyone who has an abortion should pay.”

Astonishingly, the hosts and another Republican candidate at the forum, former Idaho GOP chairman Steve Yates, did not seem bothered by Nonini’s answer.

Nonini tried to half soften his statement a few hours later, saying “no woman has ever been prosecuted” for abortion for “practical reasons” and that his wife disagrees with his stance on the death penalty. But he stopped short of actually taking back his words.

Imposing the death penalty for terminating a pregnancy is unthinkable, but Nonini has a history of horrific anti-woman behavior.

SNIP
Idaho is full of Republican politicians hostile to abortion rights.

State Sen. Dan Foreman, who has drawn national scrutiny and an ethics investigation for screaming at his own constituents, has written legislation to make abortion punishable as first-degree murder.

And one independent gadfly candidate in Idaho was so fixated on the issue that he legally changed his name to “Pro-Life”.

Nor is this zealotry limited to Idaho. Two Republican lawmakers in Ohio recently introduced a bill that would ban all abortions and potentially open doctors who perform them to wrongful death suits, life imprisonment, or execution.

And Kentucky State Rep. Dan Johnson, who took his own life last year after being accused of child molestation, had a bill in the works to make some miscarriages a crime.

Republicans this extreme are making laws like this all over the country.
It will be up to voters to reject their authoritarian control of women.


And Repubs are seating Federal Judges of this extreme rigid thought, also

#VOTE BLUE

[global1]

1. They Could Be More Extreme And Stop Pregnancy At Its Source And.....

execute the men that impregnate these women. (sarcasm)

[notdarkyet]

2. All the women should move out of the state, and then men won't have anyone to put to death.

[shraby]

3. Maybe men should have their small heads removed in order to prevent pregnancies in

the first place.
Loreena Bobbit them and stop the problem at its source.

[raccoon]

4. Wonder how many of the wives, daughters, and girlfriends of these rabid

Republican legislators would have to worry about being executed.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. And 45 years ago, they didn't care. Abortion is a made up religious

tenet that began to grow after Roe vs. Wade. It has no Biblical basis.

[jmowreader]

6. Fortunately, he'll be completely out of office next year

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/15/us/elections/results-idaho-primary-elections.html

In Idaho, you can only run for one office at a time. Nonini was a state senator; he ran in the GOP primary for light governor and these were the results:

Janice McGeachin: 51,079/28.9 percent
Steve Yates: 48,221/27.3 percent
Marv Hagedorn: 26,640/15.1 percent
Nonini: 26,517/15.0
Kelley Packer: 24,294/13.7 percent

McGeachin is running on a platform of "making Idaho conservative again." Being that Idaho is the most right-wing state in the Union, I want her to define that.

On the Democratic ticket, Kristin Collum received 52,336 votes (88.2 percent) against Jim Fabe's 6.972 (11.8 percent).

Races you'll be glad about:

Governor race: Our atrocious congressman Raul Labrador ran for governor. He didn't win.

The even more atrocious Steve Pankey, who ran on a platform of turning Idaho into a full-blown theocracy, only got 2695 votes. (Unfortunately, he beat the ever-entertaining Harley Brown by 1822 votes.)

US House, District 1 (Labrador's seat):
Michael Snyder was running for office as the only candidate who had supported Trump "from the beginning." He got stomped.

Idaho House:
District 7B had two Republicans running. One named Paul Shepherd beat one named Phil Hart. Why you should care: Meet Phil Hart...http://tpgurus.wikidot.com/phil-hart Oh...and Phil Hart ALSO stole the logs he used to build his home out of state school endowment lands. (In Idaho, parts of our forest are designated as school endowment land. All the profit from selling the logs on school endowment land goes to the school system.)