The Handmaid’s Tale campaign
by digby
Romney took flak from women’s groups, Democrats and Team Obama when he stood by Richard Mourdock in Indiana following that Senate nominee’s comments about rape, conception and God’s will. Now it seems he’s in the same boat again after cutting an ad for North Dakota Rep. Rick Berg (R), who as a state legislator voted for a bill that would have made getting an abortion a class AA felony, meaning rape and incest victims caught getting one would be subject to a sentence of life behind bars.
Berg’s 2007 vote in the state legislature for H.B. 1489 has been part of the national coverage of the North Dakota Senate race since September, when it popped up in the fallout after Rep. Todd Akin’s (R) “legitimate rape” comments in the Missouri Senate fight. But Romney’s decision to cut an ad for Berg that appeared on Saturday put the North Dakotan’s vote back in the national spotlight.
Can there be any dispute at this point that Republicans have determined that supporting forced childbirth for rape and incest is their best issue to Get out the Vote? Their people must really find this motivating for Romney to step in at this late date.
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