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riversedge

(70,242 posts)
Sun Jul 12, 2015, 09:52 AM Jul 2015

Walker specifically asked for a 20-week ban to be introduced that didn't include exceptions for rape

He is a sneaky sleazeball. Period!



#ScottWalker specifically asked for a 20-week ban to be introduced that didn't include exceptions for rape or incest →http://ppact.io/1Hq1feb



............One issue he [Walker] played down in 2014 but has seized on in early nominating states, where social conservatives are highly influential, is banning abortions after 20 weeks.

Mr. Walker repeatedly refused to say if he favored such a ban during his close re-election last year, when polls showed him unpopular among women. In March, as doubts about his anti-abortion credentials were raised by national conservatives, he pledged to sign a 20-week ban that was “likely to come to my desk.”

What he did not explain was that he had asked Wisconsin lawmakers to send him just such a bill, during a meeting in his office with Mr. Fitzgerald and Robin Vos, the speaker of the State Assembly, also a Republican.

“Walker weighed in and said the 20-week abortion ban is something he would like to see hit his desk,” Mr. Fitzgerald said. “It sent a message to us.”

The governor specified that the bill should include no exceptions for rape or incest, according to Mr. Fitzgerald........

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/24/us/politics/scott-walker-promising-bold-leadership-faces-gop-discord-in-wisconsin.html?_r=1

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