“Republicans want live babies so they can grow up to be dead soldiers.” - George Carlin, RIP

You know what else has unique DNA? Cancerous tumors, yet you never hear “pro life” people arguing against chemotherapy.

Pregnancy is far more dangerous to the woman than an abortion procured from a trained medical professional.

Yeah, I never really understood the Biblical argument on the sanctity of life. If foetuses are so sacred, why does God allow miscarriages?

If I am talking to a guy I like to point out that every sperm is a living thing that given the right opportunity can develop into a human being. Sperm has human DNA and can die. So logically any time a man has ejaculates anywhere that is a non fertile womb he is killing thousands of could be humans.

Look, I think it’s absolutely correct that life begins at conception. The true argument is the significance of that life. The belief driving the anti-choice movement is once the sperm meets the egg, the heavens open up, and God plants a special little angel in your love box. When really, all that happened is two cells…

Another take on the philosophical angle is that it doesn’t matter whether an embryo or a fetus is “alive” or “a person” or whatever because we don’t allow any human (born or otherwise) to commandeer the body of another human for surivival against that person’s will. I’ll accept an anti-choice position as not…

THANK YOU. Abortion is murdering babies, unless they’re rape or incest babies, then it’s fine to murder them. Either you are lying out your ass when you equate abortion to murder, or you think baby-murder is okay in certain circumstances. Which is it, Rubio?

I think he’s also pro-death penalty.

I think he means “values and prioritizes potential life.” Once they’re born, they need to grab those bootstraps and stop asking for handouts. It’s not like he’s also advocating for services that would help people once they’re born.

I don’t understand the “woman’s life is at stake” clause either.. Pregnancy comes with a host of risks - psychically and mentally - that can seriously impact a woman's health and well being while perhaps not outright threatening her life. So is it only if the woman is facing certain death that she can abort?

Yes, if A cannot develop into B, it must be C. That’s totally sensible.

*unless the person of color is Marco Rubio or one of his immediate family members. Then he cares.

Yep. If an embryo is automatically human life and aborting it is a crime, there should be no exceptions to that. Be ideologically consistent, at least, if you’re going to be a misogynist asshole.

“the taking of innocent life on a massive scale”

The White House needs an occupant who values and prioritizes life.

“If an embryo is not a person, what is it?”

Though he didn’t mention it in his speech, Rubio has supported three exceptions to making abortion illegal—in cases of rape, incest and if the mother’s life is at stake.

GOP debates are going to be so rad