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BREAKING: Marco Rubio Compares Abortion To Manslaughter In New Video
A new report from Vice News reveals that Marco Rubio is pushing for more extreme restrictions on Floridians’ freedom to make their own health care decisions. In new video of Rubio’s comments to a far-right anti-abortion group, he compares abortion to manslaughter and calls exceptions to abortion bans to protect the health of the mother “a massive loophole.”
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Vice News: Marco Rubio Appears to Have Compared Abortion to Vehicular Manslaughter
Key points:
- “In a virtual town hall Monday, Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio seemed to compare abortion to vehicular manslaughter.”
- “‘In most states in this country, if a drunk driver runs a red light and kills a pregnant woman, they are charged with two counts of vehicular manslaughter,’ Rubio told Florida attorney John Stemberger, leader of the Florida Family Policy Council, a Christian advocacy group.”
- “In his comments, captured on video obtained by VICE News, Rubio also said that abortion ban exceptions meant to protect the health of pregnant people are ‘a massive loophole.’”
- “Rubio has previously said that he personally supports abortion restrictions that don’t have exceptions for rape and incest, although he’s willing to support laws that have such exceptions as long as they decrease abortions. But his remarks represent a new, further-right frontier in the senator’s opposition to abortion—especially following the overturning of Roe v. Wade.”
- “The group hosting the town hall with Rubio, the Florida Family Policy Council, describes itself as ‘pro-life, pro-family’ organization that champions the idea that ‘institutions of natural marriage and the family as the foundation of civilization.’ It is also a ‘state-based policy council’ affiliated with theFamily Policy Alliance, Focus on the Family, the Alliance Defending Freedom, and the Family Research Council—organizations that have been at the forefront of promoting the national conservative agenda against abortion and LGBTQ+ rights.”
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