Mississippi House Speaker says 12-year-old incest victims should continue pregnancies to term

[Cattledog]

Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn (R) told reporters Wednesday it is his “personal belief” that if a 12-year-old girl is a victim of incest she should still be made to carry a resulting pregnancy to term.

“I believe that life begins at conception and every life is valuable. Those are my personal beliefs,” Gunn said.

A reporter then asked, “So that 12-year-old child molested by her father or uncle should carry that child to term?” to which Gunn replied, “That is my personal belief.”

https://thehill.com/policy/3541783-mississippi-house-speaker-says-12-year-old-incest-victims-should-continue-pregnancies-to-term/

[Walleye]

1. So is it also his "personal belief" that black kids and white kids should go to Sanford schools?

Is my personal belief that any man who offers any opinion on abortion should have to pay a hefty fine. Or go to jail if he won’t shut up. That is my personal belief !!

[KarenS]

2. F***er.

This is me censoring myself.

[yardwork]

3. I'd like to see him do it.

These fascists always have "deeply held beliefs" about what other people should do.

[Joinfortmill]

4. Pure evil.

[moose65]

5. These people are monsters

That is all.🥵

[JanMichael]

12. Good word for them. Monsters.

[Initech]

28. Oh I have much harsher words for them.

But as they said on Animal House "they are so profound and disgusting that the decorum prohibits me from listing them here."

[patphil]

6. Laws shouldn't be a result of "personal belief".

And this man is the speaker of the house in Mississippi!
Apparently the 12 year old's life isn't valuable, because his "personal belief" didn't take the effect this would have on her into account.

What a terrible man!

[RockRaven]

7. These ghouls have no fucking idea what childbearing does to a child's body.

And they don't fucking care either. They could hardly be more loathsome if they tried.

[Bluethroughu]

8. This idiot doesn't understand the science of a child being able to birth a baby!

Wtf.

[Skittles]

9. but she needs to be protected from drag queens and books

[Scrivener7]

10. Why should we give a shit about what his personal beliefs are? Have your belief.

Keep it the hell away from everyone else!

[Kablooie]

11. Of course she should!

Because that doesn't inconvenience Philip Gun at all.
The only moral value these guys hold is, "will it inconvenience ME?". If not, they are all for it.

If it results in the destruction of someone's life, it isn't their life so why not support it?
If it results with the death of the pregnant child, it isn't their child so why worry about it?

Except in the case that it IS their child.
Then their views quickly do a 180 and they want the law reformed.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

13. I wonder if he himself was ever a pregnant 12 year old?

I wonder if he's ever met a pregnant 12 year old?

[alphafemale]

14. Who would willingly adopt a child that inbred?

You'd have to disclose it?

Right?

[Efilroft Sul]

15. Gunn shoots off his mouth about stuff that shouldn't even be his business.

[elias7]

16. But it's not the personal belief of most Americans

[3catwoman3]

17. It is MY personal belief that Mr. Gunn...

...should mind his own damned business.

[IzzaNuDay]

18. F his personal beliefs

Mr. Gunn shouldn’t impose his christofascism on others, especially those with an uterus.

[purr-rat beauty]

19. This is Grooming - it is giving incestuous relatives and rapists

a green light

absolutely disgusting

[Demovictory9]

20. Why should his personal beliefs be foisted on someone else?

[nancy1942]

21. Insane.

Forcing a child to give birth to a rapist's baby is sadistic and immoral. Period. Every life has value except for the poor pregnant child who is the victim. She apparently has no rights whatsoever. This is evil.

[Norbert]

22. Every life is valuable...

Unless it's a 12 year old girl.

[PufPuf23]

23. If the GOP/GQP were honest brokers, they would be looking for

pedophiles in the grifting religious cults that vote for their hates.

Feels like hate and division are being deliberately induced by the like of Gunn.

[ecstatic]

24. He can do that with his own daughter, but I pray CPS locks his ass up

if he does. How is that not a second rape?

[Stuart G]

25. What about ...."his daughter" victim of incest by his brother?...What do you think about that one?

[sarcasmo]

26. We live in two different countries. Country A the sane people, Country B the evil people.

[EndlessWire]

27. These people are insane. n/t

[keep_left]

29. I wish that this was surprising, but this has been coming for a while. Especially on Catholic...

...radtrad media like EWTN and (Ir)-Relevant Radio, this has been the de rigueur thought-terminating cliché for the last decade (at least). I don't know why it hasn't had more exposure elsewhere. But the fundamentalists and radtrads are always into one-upmanship and poaching each other's followers, so it was bound to go "mainstream", if you can call it that. And that's how you have a politician deep in the (fundamentalist Protestant) Bible Belt of Mississippi who sounds like one of the talking heads on EWTN rhapsodizing about "life from conception to natural death".

Garbage like this is what Richard Pryor called "the logical conclusion of the logic".

[musette_sf]

30. FOAD

Also: FYYFF

That is all.

[Sgent]

31. We already know

he has been covering up for a child rapist as the board attorney for his church when he didn't follow the mandated reporter law.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

32. Our sick modern day QOP

Perfectly healthy and safe for kids: Getting shot in school. Being taken to a gun show. Going without food. Being subjected to Fux Noise or grOANN. Getting raped. Being forced to have kids.

Absolutely dangerous to kids: Rainbows. Hearing the word "gay." Seeing a drag queen.

You can't make this shit up anymore. The stupidity and insanity, it burns... us.

Of course, the only "children" really being traumatized by seeing a drag queen are "children" like Ben Shapiro, Charlie Kirk, Rot DeSatan, Drumpf, etc... Small-minded snowflakes who quit growing after their 4th birthdays.

[msfiddlestix]

33. hmm. didn't MS State Legislatures pass a bill supporting "his beliefs", and signed by the Gov? n/t