Presidential candidate
Ben Carson opposes nearly all abortions.
In other words, rape/incest is “killing babies” as are a couple who
openly make love, find out she’s pregnant, and then abort the child under the
presumption that they don’t want to take responsibility for their actions. As if this needs to be explained, they are
not the same action. A woman who is
forcefully raped, had no intention of having a child, and then has to endure a
nine month pregnancy—well Ben Carson wouldn’t know anything about that because
(a) he’s male, and (b) he has never had to experience what those women have had
to endure. It is an absolutist,
extremist position just like his comment that being gay is “a choice” based on
some gobbledegook about ‘when they go to prison their straight and when they
get out their gay.’ Because some women
who are raped might keep the child and produce a healthy, productive human
being doesn’t mean ALL women should have to be forced into that position. That’s what Doctor Carson believes in his
religious thinking. It’s ironic and sad
because for all the talk of loving life and being “pro-life,” he doesn’t fully
love life if a woman doesn’t have that choice under law. Even sadder is this is
a candidate who now leads the GOP field who has extremist and homophobic
positions.
