Virginia Delegate Bob Marshall of Manassas has found a new explanation for why there are disabled children in the world — apparently they are God’s punishment to women for abortion. On Thursday at a press conference to urge the state to end all funding to Planned Parenthood Advocates of Virginia, the Staunton News Leader quotes Marshall: ‘The number of children who are born subsequent to a first abortion with handicaps has increased dramatically. Why? Because when you abort the first born of any, nature takes its vengeance on the subsequent children,’ said Marshall, a Republican. ‘In the Old Testament, the first born of every being, animal and man, was dedicated to the Lord. There’s a special punishment Christians would suggest.’ So according to Marshall’s logic does that mean that Sarah Palin has had an abortion? That Trig is her punishment from God? That society should look at all women who have disabled children as suspect of some evil? The Virginia Christian Alliance sponsored the press conference to present a petition urging the state to end all funding to Planned Parenthood of Virginia, which provides low-cost health services […]