Paul Ryan's Scary Views on Abortion

     If you Ryan's views on Medicare and Social Security "entitlement reform"-of course the RSCC is telling Republicans not to use the words entitlement reform-pretty darn scary, you should

     However what's just as down right spooky are his views on abortion. It goes way beyond simply being prolife. It goes beyond even the odious "personhood" amendment he supports or that he's in line with Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell's vaginal probes.

     In looking at his views on abortion I am not  engaging in hyperbole in declaring that they are the most extreme anti abortion views-and the most extreme anti woman views-I've ever heard of from an American politician much less one running for the highest office in the land:

     "By now, you surely know, if you didn’t already, that Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney’s vice-presidential pick, wants to privatize Social Security and turn Medicare into a voucher system. You might have read that, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, his economic plan “calls for radical policy changes that would result in a massive transfer of resources from the broad majority of Americans to the nation’s wealthiest individuals.”

      "Less attention has been paid, though, to Ryan’s hard-right positions on social issues. Indeed, on abortion and women’s health care, there isn’t much daylight between Ryan and, say, Michele Bachmann. Any Republican vice-presidential candidate is going to be broadly anti-abortion, but Ryan goes much further. He believes ending a pregnancy should be illegal even when it results from rape or incest, or endangers a woman’s health. He was a cosponsor of the Sanctity of Human Life Act, a federal bill defining fertilized eggs as human beings, which, if passed, would criminalize some forms of birth control and in vitro fertilization. The National Right to Life Committee has scored his voting record 100 percent every year since he entered the House in 1999. “I’m as pro-life as a person gets,” he told The Weekly Standard’s John McCormack in 2010. “You’re not going to have a truce.”

     http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/08/11/paul-ryan-s-extreme-abortion-views.html

      Hmmm. Not going to have a truce. Does this sound like someone who's bipartisan and eager to work across the aisles to you? In reality, there's no one with less history of bipartisanship or indeed of even passing legislation even on a party line vote than Paul Ryan.

      This is someone who has just two pieces of legislation in 13 years in the House-one was to rename a post office and the other was all about bows and arrows. If only I were kidding.

      http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2012/08/paul-ryan-bipartisan-myth.html

      I've never heard anyone actually suggest that women who have abortions can go to jail. Let's see what Ryan does when someone asks him this-they need to ask him really soon. Maybe he'll try to claim that it's Obama who really wants to put women in jail-after all he claimed it's the President who wants to end Medicare which has about as much relation to reality.

     Remember back when we used to think that Mitt Romney was a Massachusetts moderate? In truth this is the most conservative ticket in over 100 years-again not hyperbole, going by the issues.

    When was the last Presidential candidate who called for women to be put in jail for having an abortion. While Romney is not a moderate in any shape or form anymore, he is more moderate than Ryan at least in what he said-and bear in mind that Romney has said that he'll shutdown Planned Parenthood-not just defund it but shut it down though it's a private organization.

     "In July, the Romney campaign cried foul when an Obama campaign ad claimed that the Republican nominee opposed abortion even in cases of rape and incest. At the time, the campaign told TPM that the ad was “false” and a “desperate attempt to change the subject” from the faltering economy. Romney has expressed support for those exceptions."

    "But Ryan is a different story. When Republicans took back the House of Representatives in 2010, they passed a series of bills limiting abortion rights and women’s access to contraceptive care. Ryan voted for all of them, including legislation that would ban abortion in all cases. This Sanctity of Human Life Act, to which he signed on to as a co-sponsor, would also criminalize some forms of birth control. He also voted for a bill abortion-rights activist blasted as the “Let Women Die Act,” which would allow hospitals to refuse to perform a life-saving abortion."

    "Ryan also voted to defund Planned Parenthood and government funding for family planning, which fits Obama’s narrative that Romney is on the wrong side of women’s health issues. The Obama campaign is already using Romney’s promise to defund Planned Parenthood in ads meant to appeal to women voters."

     http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/romney-ryan-abortion-women-voters.php

     I really think that Romney should be asked about this as well. As he says he does believe in abortion in the case of rape, incest, and the life of the woman, how does he square this with having a candidate on the bottom of his ticket who disagrees and even wants to put women in jail?

     While obviously, there can be some disagreement on the issues, isn't this a little bigger than a run of the mill disagreement?

     How can he, Mitt Romney, assure the women of America and the many men as well who are concerned about this and who are alarmed by this idea that women could be arrested for having abortions in a Romney Administration? How can we be sure that Ryan's scary views won't find it in to the Administration's policies?

   While he claimed that he doesn't go as far as Ryan, many in the GOP House agree with Ryan. Will he veto any such legislation if it comes to his desk?