I keep having this terrible feeling that he will finally, finally shut his mouth for more than 48 hours at a time and his poll numbers will go up. Because there are people who are just determined to believe that he will, despite every available shred of evidence, be reasonable and they can support him over Clinton.

And this jackass has a pretty good chance of maintaining his Senate seat, unless the people of Florida (i.e., those among the most likely to actually have Zika one day affect their lives) wake up and vote against him.

You can give up a child for any reason. There are no laws stipulating what is and is not a justifiable reason for putting a baby up for adoption. As you say, though, the chances of being adopted are slim for children with disabilities, so giving a disabled child up is almost certainly to put them into a position where…

No, I don’t think of adoption as a good fall back answer for Rubio and Co’s goal of eventually outlawing abortion. Not at all .

The mask really is coming off. It’s interesting to me that they’re collectively digging in their heels with their anachronistic beliefs, even though it’s pretty clearly only working on an audience made up of mostly older people. Seems like a poor strategy to me!

I’m going with highly unlikely based on his voting record on social welfare programs.

Because if life begins at conception and abortion is murder, the it’s always murder, even when the “child” is ill or conceived through rape or incest, etc.

Lots of kids end up in the system with issues like this but they do not get adopted easily. Adoption is very much not the answer to this problem. There would just be a lot more kids in foster care with uncertain futures and no families. :( These assholes never think this far. Note the lack of adopted disabled children…

I’m sure there would be a way to give over a child born with such disabilities. I can only imagine, though, that giving over little one this vulnerable would be even harder than giving up a healthy child. Disabled kids don’t always bring out the best in people. To say the least.

In general they likely can. Many states have laws allowing for a child to be given up while in the hospital with safe harbor laws. That really doesn’t do much for the compassionate abortion situations(what I mean is the argument that some conditions cause such severe suffering that the compassionate thing to do would…

LOL at that point they’re normally referred to as “welfare cheats”.

There are a lot of children in the system with multiple disabilities, but I’m not sure about the specifics around your question. I’ve worked with kids who have life threatening health conditions, and the children and families go through so much. I’m not saying that their lives are not worth living, but I think that…

Yeah, his beliefs are just so fucking shallow. I tell you, the mask is really coming off the Republican party this year.

“Small government.”

“Obviously, microcephaly is a terrible prenatal condition that kids are born with,” he said to Politico. “And when they are, it’s a lifetime of difficulties. So I get it.”

It pisses me off beyond words that men like Rubio feel entitled to decide what women must do with not only their bodies, but the very life they’ll lead after their child is born. I’m 5 months pregnant, and I’m positive that if my baby had microcephaly, and abortion were illegal, I would go to some desperate lengths to…

What’s there to be surprised about? He’s an opportunistic leach who always crawls back to the GOP base.

The problem is, he doesn’t say he’s anti-abortion, he says he’s pro-life. But then he’s in support of the death penalty. So he clearly does not stick to his convictions and is inconsistent on the matter of whether “life” is to be protected at all costs.

Dear Marco Rubio, Fuck you. (Back to the Olympics.)

I’m guessing he’s going to err on the side of life, but not err on the side of making sure women who are forced to have babies with birth defects are then provided with the medical and financial resources necessary to care for a child with life-long special needs.