Fred Thompson on womb control, gay rights

Published: September 9, 2007, 12:24 pm

Tags: fred thompson, gay rights, arnold schwarzenegger, abortion

Let's get this first bit of lunacy out of the way -- Fred Thompson on who should face criminal sanction for an abortion:"Don't punish women who have abortions," presidential hopeful Fred Thompson says. Punish the doctors who perform them...Authorities "can do whatever they want to with abortion doctors, as far as I'm concerned," the former Tennessee senator said while campaigning in Western Iowa according to the Los Angeles Times. But "if it comes down to giving criminal sanctions to a 19-year-old girl and her mama, I'm against that."Wait a minute. If it's going to be a crime, why not punish the mother? If we're going to do the whole law and order thing (har-dee-har-har), when it comes to state womb control, doesn't the woman represent the one contracting the hit on the fetus? As even one Freeper sanely noted, the inconsistency makes no sense:Under Thompson's logic here, it's perfectly legal for a woman to use a coat hanger to perform an abortion on herself but illegal for her to

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