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Monday, August 10th, 2015

Here’s What the Presidential Candidates Had to Say About Reproductive Rights in the First GOP Debate

Author:     Molly Redden
Source:     Mother Jones
Publication Date:     Thu Aug. 6, 2015 11:29 PM EDT
 Link: Here’s What the Presidential Candidates Had to Say About Reproductive Rights in the First GOP Debate
Stephan:   This is what struck me about the Fox Republican debate: the positions taken about whether a woman has the right to control her own body. I confess I simply do not understand how any woman can vote Republican. It is like voting for a form of enslavement. And yet I know millions of woman do vote Republican and will do so in 2016.

First Republican debateOn Thursday night, the ten front-runners in the race for the GOP presidential nomination gathered in Cleveland for the first debate of the primaries and naturally the discussion included women’s health issues. Fox News hosts grilled Florida Sen. Marco Rubio on his opposition to exceptions to abortion laws for victims of rape and incest and Gov. Scott Walker over his support for a ban on abortion that doesn’t make an exception for the life of the mother. They pressed former Gov. Jeb Bush over his ties to a pro-abortion rights group, and Donald Trump on his onetime support of reproductive rights.

Here’s what they had to say:

Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida — Kelly asked Rubio about his record of opposing exceptions to abortion restrictions for victims of rape or incest. “I’m not sure that’s a correct assessment of my record,” Rubio shot back. “I have never advocated that.” Kelly may have been referring to the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act. This was a bill Rubio sponsored in 2011 that would make it a crime for anyone—except for […]

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