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Yep, that's this Virginial state legislator's take on it.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/02/22/83337/disabled-abortion/
On Thursday, Virginia State Delegate Bob Marshall (R) spoke at a press conference against state funding for Planned Parenthood. He blasted the organization for supporting a womens right to choose, saying that God punishes women who have had abortions by giving them disabled children:
tanyev
(42,550 posts)ecstatic
(32,685 posts)Oh my gosh! I don't know how much longer I can share a country with these idiots!
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)ante?
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)I can't think of a single job I have had where you get paid to be this stupid.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)It's also an example of how fear is pushed onto the susceptible by those seeking to control them.
I'm pretty sure I could not love or even respect a god with such a bad case of human vindictiveness that he would punish parents by disabling their children.
deutsey
(20,166 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)Are we still the USA? You know, that country that separated religion and government?
s-cubed
(1,385 posts)It was stillborn. Then she had a second child, who has down's and autism.She knew the first would die , and refused an abortion. God sure punished her for NOT having an abortion.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)astoundingly, Marshall was re-elected later that year, but finished third of four in the repuke primary this June -- likely because he was too moderate.
PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)for the "sin" of the mother? They can keep their "god."