Tuesday, September 4, 2012

GOP Senate Candidate Supports Life Sentences For Rape Victims Who Obtain Abortions

GOP Senate Candidate Supports Life Sentences For Rape Victims Who Obtain Abortions: pRep. Rick Berg (R-ND), the candidate for Senate from North Dakota, once voted for a bill that would have made any woman who obtained an abortion guilty of a homicide crime — even if it were in the case of rape or incest. Indeed, the bill Berg supported does not even contain an explicit exception [...]/p

1 comment:

Rixar13 said...

In 2007, Berg was among the small number of state representatives in the North Dakota House who supported the measure. It also would have imposed penalties on doctors and anyone else who “aids, abets, facilitates, solicits, or incites” a person into an abortion: