I'm getting really tired of posting about Tennessee's tired old Frederick of Hollywood. But who knew Fred could say so many dumb things in so little time? Now I learn that Freddie Thompson is advocating making post first trimester abortions a crime and making the women who have them into criminals!
LEMARS, IOWA -- -- A day after touting his "100% record against abortion," Republican presidential hopeful Fred Thompson said Friday that women should face no criminal penalties for having one during the first three months of pregnancy.
. . . On abortion, his comments echoed the stand that he took when he successfully ran for Senate in the mid-1990s. No woman of child-bearing age, he said, should face criminal sanctions for having an abortion in the first trimester.
So, Grandpa Fred, exactly how much jail time do you have in mind?
via Vanessa at Feministing
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