This is right up there with the “legitimate rape” comments by Todd Aiken during the 2012 campaign:
During a Tuesday press conference, Abbott said the law gives rape victims up to six weeks to get abortion and thus “does not do that [force victims to have their assaulter’s child].”
“Let’s be clear: rape is a crime,” Abbott said. “And Texas will work tirelessly to make sure that we eliminate all rapists from the streets of Texas by aggressively going out and arresting them and prosecuting them and getting them off the streets.”
So rape and incest victims (along with every other woman) has a whole six weeks to determine they are pregnant and then try to find some way to get an abortion in a state that has turned every citizen into a bounty hunter before time runs out. That’s very generous.
And, by the way, there are rapists “in the streets” and there are also rapists “in the home” and they are often raping their own family members. The idea that Texas will “eliminate all rapists” is among the most fatuous comments any politician has ever made.
They clearly want women and girls to bear their rapists children and give birth to their own brothers or sisters. That is how primitive and antediluvian these monsters really are.