“FETAL PERSONHOOD” being considered over a woman’s own personal freedom is not a libertarian idea. It’s not even a conservative idea. In fact, when women like myself say Do Not Tread On Me, it may be a civil rights and privacy notion, but it also used to be a conservative one as well.
What is more conservative than telling a senator like Rand Paul or Bob Casey or a politician vying for the presidency, Mitt Romney, that they have no right to impede a woman’s decision about her own body?
That Sen. Rand Paul is suggesting his “fetal personhood” legislation be attached to a flood insurance bill as we reach hurricane season proves the unserious nature of Mr. Paul and his acolytes.
The bill, which would financially boost the National Flood Insurance Program on the cusp of hurricane season, had been expected to pass easily in the Senate. But since Paul on Monday offered an unrelated “fetal personhood” amendment, which would give legal protections to fetuses from the moment of fertilization, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is threatening to halt progress on the legislation.
“I’m told last night that one of our Republican senators wants to offer an amendment — listen to this one — wants to offer an amendment on when life begins,” Reid said on the Senate floor Tuesday. “I am not going to put up with that on flood insurance. I can be condemned by outside sources; my friends can say, ‘Let them have a vote on it.’ There will not be a vote on that on flood insurance. We’ll either do flood insurance with the amendments that deal with flood insurance, or we won’t do it. We’ll have an extension.”
The only true Libertarian in the presidential race is Gary Johnson, who believes a woman’s freedom cannot be impeded by the feds or the state.
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So government subsidized flood insurance is ok, but government subsidized family planning, prenatal care, medical care and food stamps are not. So it’s ok for you and your unwanted and unhealthy child to starve to death, as long as your dry.
These guys are clueless, fangio.
Dry Dead Baby…good name for a Band.
I think what Rand Paul has is the organizational support of his father’s political strength. I have heard from more than one source that Ron Paul will not challenge Mitt Romney in exchange for support for his son.
I think this is an issue that should be addressed in its own legislation and not as an add on to a flood insurance bill. Ron Paul explains why Pro-Life is a very Libertarian policy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Ron_Paul#Abortion
Paul calls himself “strongly pro-life” and “an unshakable foe of abortion”. In 2005, 2007, 2009, and 2011, Paul introduced the Sanctity of Life Act, which would have defined life as beginning at conception at the Federal level. However, he believes regulation of medical decisions about maternal or fetal health is “best handled at the state level”. He believes that according to the U.S. Constitution states should, for the most part, retain jurisdiction.
Paul refers to his background as an obstetrician as being influential on his view, recalling inadvertently witnessing a late-term abortion performed by one of his instructors during his residency, “It was pretty dramatic for me to see a two-and-a-half-pound baby taken out crying and breathing and put in a bucket.” During a May 15, 2007, appearance on the Fox News talk show Hannity and Colmes, Paul argued that his pro-life position was consistent with his libertarian values, asking, “If you can’t protect life then how can you protect liberty?” Furthermore, Paul argued in this appearance that since he believes libertarians support non-aggression, libertarians should oppose abortion because abortion is “an act of aggression” against a fetus, which he believes is alive, human, and in possession of legal rights.
“Blah,blah,blah,BULLSHIT,blah,blah,BULLSHIT,blah,blah,BULLSHIT,blah,blah,BULLSHIT,blah,blah,DELUSIONAL blah,blah,BULLSHIT,BULLSHIT,MORE DELUSIONAL bullshit.”
Ok, we can see where your comion from.
If you can’t protect as a liberty the sovereignty over one’s own body how can you call yourself a protector of liberty?–my response to Ron Paul’s query.
It makes no sense other than the GOP is overrun with radical fundamentalists and this is their way of trying to make it work so to speak.
Just another day of pandering to the fundamentalist radicals in the GOP. Nothing new under the sun here.