Joe Walsh: "No 'Life Of Mother' Exception Needed Thanks To Modern Technology And Science"

[Bigredhunk]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/18/joe-walsh-abortion-exception_n_1983701.html

Republican Rep. Joe Walsh, running against Democratic challenger Tammy Duckworth in Illinois, told reporters Thursday night that there should be no abortion exception for the "life of the mother" because "with modern technology and science, you can't find one instance" in which a woman would actually die, according to a radio station. Walsh, of course, is flat wrong.

"There is no such exception as life of the mother, and as far as health of the mother, same thing," Walsh continued. The comments were first reported by the Illinois radio station WGN.

[calimary]

1. Well isn't that just a ducky pronouncement from a DEADBEAT DAD!!!!!!

Fucker.

[SteveG]

23. The stupid, it burns

here is a link to real facts on the issue for you to use with any idiot tries to defend Walsh on this issue.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/24/maternal-mortality-rate-infographic_n_1827427.html

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24. Facts? Science? Statistics? Sweet Jesus...

Eeeuuwww! Do we have to? But... but... but... the Bible says... uh... er... ahem... well, since there weren't any gynecologists in the Bible, it obviously wasn't all that important to them, so why should it count for anything for us?

[Warpy]

2. You can tell he got his medical education from a priest

or right wing preacher.

I'm sure he believes it. There is nothing we can do about that but throw him out of office.

I understand he's trailing at this point.

[vadermike]

3. this bs

This bullshit should go viral and hopefully hurt the GOP national ticket like the Akin thing.. these fuckers are batshit crazy!

[GitRDun]

4. My Congressman

We're so proud....

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25. Good Heavens, Welcome to DU GitRDun and vadermike!

Very good to have you both here! We need you - AND we need you liberated from this disgraceful Troglodyte! We've rolled up our sleeves for sure, to do everything we can, so join in and help us!






Now get to work.

[Floyd_Gondolli]

5. Man it's been a long day

For a second there I was thinking I would have to throw out all my Eagles albums.

[mimi85]

20. Speaking of Joe Walsh

reminds me of my daughter's first husband, Spacey Kacey, who wrote in Joe Walsh - yep, the Eagles Joe - for Prez in 2000. Gee, can't imagine why they got divorced! Luckily, no kids with the cadet.

Now Rep Joe Walsh only won by a very few hundred votes, if I remember correctly, so I'm looking for his deadbeat ass to be looking for a job real soon. Now, THAT resume would be one to see. I bet Tammy Duckworth buries this idiot on 11/6.

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26. I hope so, mimi85! Welcome to DU!

Let's hope she buries him all the way to the Earth's core, figuratively-speaking of course.

Glad you're here - we need you. And our President needs you too. This thing isn't won yet.





Now get to work.

[vadermike]

6. this guy

I hope this douche loses badly.. what a fuckwad.. I am note sure we take the House .. but I think some of the crazy teahadists are going to lose bad like this dude and Allen West for instance..... and isn't Alan Grayson going to get his old seat back in FL.. ? He is leading there... I don't know if a teahadist has it tho.....

[vadermike]

7. now on HP

HP has this splashed on their front-page.. good.. make this hit national.. hurt the GOP....

[LisaL]

8. Considering how much advances they think science and technology made, why do they

want to cut funding?

[HeiressofBickworth]

9. Dumb Ass

Once a fertilized egg is given "rights", a woman with an ectopic (tubal) pregnancy is doomed to death. It is the fertilized egg, trapped in the fallopian tube for some reason, continuing to grow, causing the tube to burst and the woman to die of internal bleeding. Logic would tell most people that the egg is going to die one way or the other -- either when it is removed when the bleeding is fixed, or it will die with the woman does. The "modern technology" referred to would be a surgical removal of the offending egg and ruptured tube. There can be other medical circumstances where the mother's life is in danger. Don't these brain-dead, ass-holes understand this? Or do they actually have a death-wish for women?

My personal opinion is that abortion should be as available as an appendix removal.

[JohnnyRingo]

10. Doesn't this man have family that can have him committed?

It's getting so bad he may be a danger to his constituents. Somebody has to do something for his own good.

[LisaL]

13. Isn't he divorced?

[busterbrown]

11. I've always thought Joe was a dry drunk. I've been around the block a few times and he

fits the prototype so well.

[Doctor Jack]

12. I dont think i need to say that is ridiculous but i will anyway

E diThe idea that there are no instances where a woman's life would be at risk during pregnancy that would require terminating the pregnancy is pure republican fantasy. Joe Walsh either doesn't know anything about this or doesn't care, either way this scumbag has no business making policy in Washington .

Now of course modern medicine and knowledge has reduced the number of complications from pregnancies and such drastic measures are not as likely to be needed these days but I greatly doubt that is what he was getting at. He is stuck in this right wing delusion that abortions are never necessary and they are just used by uncaring women to get themselves out of a jam. Total bullshit, as you all know.

Now thanks to some gerrymandering on the part of the dems, Joe Walsh is now running in district where I live. I will truly enjoy helping get this ignorant prick out of office

[vadermike]

14. this dude

I wish we could run all these asswipe teahadists out of Congress.. that may take awhile cause some of the districts are gerrymandered.. but we should hold the Presidency, Senate and get back some governorships or at least keep some governorships and win some new ones.. also i wonder how we are doing state legislature wise... i beleive we will hold or get +1 D legistature here in my state

[calimary]

27. I like your thinking, vadermike!

We NEED to hold the Presidency because there will almost certainly be at least one additional Supreme Court appointment coming up in the next FEW years.

We have a lot of trend reversal work to do - to roll back the "progress" the bad guys have been making since that damn reagan made these hideous IGMFU ideas glamorous and broadly appealing.

[AtomicKitten]

15. He's a Republican. He doesn't know science from a hole in the ground.

[tomm2thumbs]

18. shhh.. that hole might lead to China... then we'd really have issues

<g>

[Waiting For Everyman]

16. Oh really? Does he think an ectopic pregnancy is survivable?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001897/

It would be something like having an egg growing in his dick. Try that on, jackass.

[Prophet 451]

17. That's a popular delusion on the right

I remember getting into an abortion argument on Beliefnet years ago and the other guy trotted out the same line, that there was no such thing as a medical condition that would require an abortion.

[NightOwwl]

19. I think extremists like this

should be required to cut off their testicles.

Without sperm, there can be no life. Without testicles there can be no sperm. Problem solved.

[longship]

21. Here's Tammy Duckworth's site.

Tammy Duckworth for Congress

Help her any way you can. This is a winnable turn-over. She's ahead in opinion polls, but CD polling is a bit more sporadic and likely less accurate.

Plus, it would be unthinkable for her to lose.

Just do what you can. Please.

[Scuba]

22. +1,000 thanks for the link.

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28. +1,000,000!