Vitter: Furer Handled Abortion, Just Not 'Women's Affairs' (VIDEO)

Of course abortion isn't a woman's issue. It is just a fetal/religious issue - the woman is just a vessel for the blessed unborn, after all.

This man is a complete idiot - but he'll no doubt cruise to re-election.

Abortion is NOT a woman's issue to the average Rethug. According to them, such issues should be decided only by men of unquestionable moral authority, like Diaper Dave.

"It's difficult to say whether Vitter's parsing here, or whether we're getting a candid conservative view that abortion is not in fact a woman's issue."

I think what we're getting is an attempt to change the conversation to debating whether or not abortion is, in fact, a woman's issue, rather than continuing to focus on Vitter's questionable actions with respect to his aide. Wedge applied, nudging those wavering supporters back into the fold.

If I am a woman who has faithfully taken a contraceptive (for blemish problems, tee hee) and is faced with an unwanted pregnancy and go to an OB-GYN who is also a woman and I get an abortion...then using Vitter's logic, none of it really happened? Now that my friends is making lemonade out of lemons...especially when I can now claim that I am a born again Virgin!

Vitter has someone devoted to "women affairs"?

Is there someone also devoted to "men affairs"? Or is that responsibility handled by Vitter?

I love the spin attempt. He wants to make it an abortion issue with this guy - the evil libruls are attacking him because he worked on the abortion portfolio. And since he was so good at saving babies lives I thought he should stay on even if he cut his girlfriends neck and hand and held her against her will for a couple of hours...

Shorter Vitter: I'm in favor of endangering women's lives by withholding abortions needed for health reasons. Why would you think I would be upset with an aide who threatened the life an non-fetal woman by holding a knife to her neck?

I do not like Vitter, but I feel that the media is blowing this out of proportion. I am sorry but I am not going to hold it against him that he kept his staffer even though the guy did something stupid. Thing is we have all done stupid things. Its not like the guy made a habit of holding knives to womens necks. I mean it happened once. I know some will be outraged by this but I don't care because I beleive in forgiveness.

and as far as abortion goes the republican position has always been antichoice for women. They supported the businesses taking advantage of women in saipan, which by the way they force pregnant women to have abortions there. So its always been consistent in america they think its ok if women can't choose to have an abortion and overseas they think its ok for a women not to be able to choose not to have an abortion.

A relevant question is whether Vitter or Furer opposes abortion in the case of rape, such as, say, at knifepoint?

Another relevant question would be whether any likely voter in Louisiana cares diddly about any of this.

Well, if you beat up a pregnant woman you might take care of the issue--from Vitter's POV, that is.

Women are just the inconvenience that stand between rapists and their offspring.
Oh well, eventually there will be nobody left in Louisiana anyway.

I think Vitter as a Republican would call abortion a "life issue." (Capital punishment, on the other hand, would not be a "life issue," but a "crime issue"--as the GOP knows, it's all in the framing.

Since R's think women should have no choice in the matter, it is not a women's issue.

He might call funding of "crisis pregnancy centers"--i.e., groups that try to persuade women seeking abortions to carry to term--a women's issue.

It's not exactly the most confidence-inspiring thing to realize that morons like Vitter are a dime a dozen in American politics these days, especially considering that so-called ordinary Americans are the idiots who are electing and re-electing these sociopaths into office time and again.