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Tuesday, December 12, 2017

The Aptly Named Jeff Flake

“Country over Party” outgoing U.S. Senator Jeff Flake (R-Arizona) wrote on the $100 check he sent to Alabama U.S. Senate candidate Doug Jones (D-NARAL).

Jones, now trailing Roy Moore, the Republican, by a few percentage points, told Chuck Todd on MSNBC in September that he doesn’t support restricting abortion after 20 weeks or really at all.

“I’m not in favor of anything that is going to infringe on a woman’s right and her freedom to choose,” Jones said. “That’s just the position that I’ve had for many years. It’s a position I continue to have. But I want to make sure people understand, that once a baby is born, I’m going to be there for that child. That’s where I become a right-to-lifer.”

So, no infanticide? That’s reassuring.

About a month ago, Jones “clarified” that he supports restrictions on “late-term procedures,” but even then he left himself wiggle room, the kind that as a practical matter could leave no restrictions on nine-months-plus abortion at all.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

So...who is the most violated; some women who were made to feel "uncomfortable" (so they say decades later) or women who have late term abortions (murder by any standard) allowed by the likes of Doug Jones? Sexual harassment should never be tolerated but isn't it rich that after all these years these women felt compelled to come forward and at this particular time. The taking of innocent unborn lives is unconscionable and in my opinion the greater transgression.