Isn't it amazing? She is afraid to come out and actually say that a woman and her doctor should not be subject to the death penalty if abortion becomes illegal. We really have come a long way toward criminalizing a woman when the death penalty is not at once denounced.
Creepy stuff. Methinks these rigid right wingers have painted themselves into a corner with their hateful rhetoric.
Iowa Candidate Unable to Decide on Proper Abortion Punishment If Procedure Is Made IllegalIf her stance on abortion prevails, and it is criminalized again, what should the penalty be for a physician who performs an abortion or a woman who has one?
“Well, I think it would be equivalent to murder,” Reynolds said. “I would want to research that before I would lay specifically out what the penalties would be.”
If someone is stabbed to death in front of Pizza Ranch now is the culprit guilty of the same crime as a doctor who performs an abortion?
“No,” she said.
So if it’s a different kind murder then?
“I would want to take a look at that and make sure that I completely walked through that before I would say anything right now,” Reynolds said. “I’m not going to give an answer to that right now without thoroughly looking through that and making sure that I’m looking at both sides.”
If she’s strongly pro-life, why hasn’t Reynolds thought about the punishment component as criminalized abortion is the end game, the logical conclusion, of the pro-life movement?
“I don’t know if it needs to be the death penalty,” she said. “Is that what you’re asking me?”
Yes, indeed, lady, that is exactly what he was asking you.
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