Brian Kurcaba (R): "Obviously rape is awful, [...] What is beautiful is the child that could come fr - Polidicks

[QUOTE=axelord157;47096389]Funny you mentioned that. Ever heard of the Rape of Sabine? Some dude wrote an article about how Roman soldiers raping Sabine women saved Western civilization. He defended their actions. It was a pretty disgusting read as you could imagine.[/QUOTE] Worthy of note is that the Rape of Sabine is not a historical event, it's just a part of the Roman founding legend. You know, the story that involves two babies who get nursed and raised by a wolf founding the city of Rome on their own. Rape of Sabine comes into the story when the writers realized that 'fuck, there's no ladies in our legend! Uh..' and then went like 'So we raped a bunch of bitches lol'.

[QUOTE=proch;47096676]You're completely wrong, and demonizing a whole political party is very ignorant, especially in a two-party system, not to mention it's extremely echo-chambery to boot.[/QUOTE] I'm not demonizing shit, I'm repeating the platform they stand behind as a party. [QUOTE] In August 2012, the party approved a platform advocating banning abortions, [B]without exceptions for the cases of rape or incest.[/B] The text specifically stated that "the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed." It also opposed using public revenues to promote abortions, to perform them, or to fund organizations that do either such things[/QUOTE] [url]http://finance.yahoo.com/news/gop-oks-platform-barring-abortions-gay-marriage-204947742.html[/url]

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[QUOTE=Joazzz;47092574]this seriously sounds like some "ends justify the means" supervillain level shit[/QUOTE] in a way, it is. The ends here are this: No abortion allowed, ever. However the problem they have is not all pregnancies are the result of immoral people(in their eyes) having sex outside of marriage. So how do they justify the 'no abortion' stance with the reality that rape and incest happen? Well if you ignore the rape/incest part of it and focus on the birth of the resulting child, people might buy it. Talk about the miracle of life and the beautiful baby that will be born and pretend like the circumstances that caused that are in the past, to be forgotten. No consideration for the women affected by this, it's all about achieving their ends by any means necessary.

[QUOTE=cecilbdemodded;47100156] No consideration for the women affected by this, it's all about achieving their ends by any means necessary.[/QUOTE] And no consideration for the baby that is born either.

[QUOTE=Raidyr;47100693]And no consideration for the baby that is born either.[/QUOTE] Republicans have a perspective of "it's better to be alive and suffering horribly than to not be alive" because they've never experienced actual suffering.

i am very glad republican men understand what pregnancy is or rape is seriously do these guys even understand what rape is I mean I want someone to stuff a baby inside a republican and make him shit it out in 9 months because life is beautiful

As Margaret Cho pointed out, Republicans are [I]against[/I] abortion, but [I]for[/I] the death penalty. They're just [I]lazy[/I] about getting around to it.

Good ole WV, fucking everything up again.

[QUOTE=Zukriuchen;47097126]ok now you've said "no thats bad" without any sort of insight as to why you think that way two times, very informative[/QUOTE] Because this 'Republicans are stupid and hate birth control' line is not only partisan rhetoric, it's bullshit. They had a [URL="http://op-talk.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/29/why-are-republicans-in-favor-of-over-the-counter-birth-control/?_r=0"]huge campaign[/URL] back in September favoring easy over-the-counter access to birth control drugs. It's fair to say that the party is overwhelmingly pro-life but it's goddamn ridiculous that the idea that Republicans are people, not a monolithic mass of evil-stupid, is apparently an unacceptable opinion here. I'm not even Republican, but this ridiculous demonization isn't okay when it's coming from either side, and I've seen enough rants about 'libtards' to know that it goes both ways. Criticize the candidate, criticize the party line, but 'they're from the other party so they're an idiot' is exactly why absolutely fucking nothing happens in Congress. Nobody makes an effort to understand why other people believe what they do.

Wasn't the republican party at one point the forefront of progression, opposing racial segregation and other matters like that? Jesus, where the fuck have these people gone.

[QUOTE=GordonZombie;47106542]Wasn't the republican party at one point the forefront of progression, opposing racial segregation and other matters like that? Jesus, where the fuck have these people gone.[/QUOTE] The Southern Strategy happened.