Let's please take it as a given that Ron Paul is an enormous douchebag on this subject, and any question as to his douchiness was settled the moment the phrase "honest rape" escaped his pie-hole...
...but that said, (a) it doesn't seem completely unreasonable to assume that he simply misspoke and said "estrogen" instead of "progesterone", and (b) per wikipedia (with all appropriate reservations about that as a source), some emergency contraceptives do in fact contain estrogen, so perhaps that's what he was referring to?
Saw the Yuzpe Regimen mentioned in a different thread:
The Yuzpe Regimen is a method of emergency contraception using a combination of estrogen and progestogen hormones and started within 72 hours of sexual intercourse. It has been superseded by a progestogen-only hormonal regimen. - wikipedia
Ron Paul is worse, because you believe he just doesn't care, and because he's a licensed medical doctor.
Rick Santorum strikes me as someone who is possibly actually a decent, kind man who believes he is doing best, but has a large tumor in part of his brain.
Paul, I think would kill people. Santorum, I think is horribly, horribly misguided, but he hasn't been licensed to do no harm.
I chose Romney. Not because I think he has the worst approach, but because he's going to win the nomination, and thus the other three don't matter. Romney's the only one who has a chance to enact whatever terrible ideas are in his head.
Paul is the worst of the worst, a total and complete charlatan. It is dumbfounding how ardent his supporters are, in the face of growing mountains of evidence of his racist/bigoted/caveman views (nothing against cavemen) and connections.
Oh, Jessica Pieklo is missing the point! Ron Paul says he will give "them" a shot of estrogen! So to be an "honest rape," the woman must forcibly drag the rapist into the emergency room as well so they can both get shots! No doubt the estrogen will cause the rapist to renounce his raping ways.
And Ron is just thinking ahead - once he makes abortion illegal for anything except "honest rape," there will be tons of women with medical conditions lying about their conditions in order to preserve their lives -you wouldn't want that!
@16: Yeah, Whoopi totally got a pass on that one. Feminists, leftists, and thinking people in general all over the world shrugged their shoulders and said "oh well, she voted for Obama so that's okay then."
Oh wait, that's the opposite of what happened, and Whoopi Goldberg is running for president of exactly jack shit. You and her both are cordially invited to take your drooling moral idiocy and pound sand.
Regardless of his beliefs on them, he wants the voters of each state to choose their state's laws involving it ... that's a win no matter how you spin it.
Rick Santorum strikes me as someone who is possibly actually a decent, kind man who believes he is doing best, but has a large tumor in part of his brain.
Er, the tumor part is probably the only correct part. This is the guy who'd see the honest rape babies as gifts from God. (And don't forget he's a welfare cheat, claiming residency in PA to get school monies or something like that when he and his family was living in VA.)
@24: The all are. Ron Paul is a Federalist when it suits him, and he doesn't give a fuck if anyone on a state level deprives you of liberty and human rights.
...but that said, (a) it doesn't seem completely unreasonable to assume that he simply misspoke and said "estrogen" instead of "progesterone", and (b) per wikipedia (with all appropriate reservations about that as a source), some emergency contraceptives do in fact contain estrogen, so perhaps that's what he was referring to?
Again, total douchebag, no argument.
The Yuzpe Regimen is a method of emergency contraception using a combination of estrogen and progestogen hormones and started within 72 hours of sexual intercourse. It has been superseded by a progestogen-only hormonal regimen. - wikipedia
He's not incorrect, just grossly out-of-date.
Rick Santorum strikes me as someone who is possibly actually a decent, kind man who believes he is doing best, but has a large tumor in part of his brain.
Paul, I think would kill people. Santorum, I think is horribly, horribly misguided, but he hasn't been licensed to do no harm.
Like Obamacare which he invented?
And Ron is just thinking ahead - once he makes abortion illegal for anything except "honest rape," there will be tons of women with medical conditions lying about their conditions in order to preserve their lives -you wouldn't want that!
For instance:
Mineral County
Gingrich 39
Romney 37
Paul 15
Santorum 12
And, yes, that's VOTES, not percentages.
Double standard much?
Oh wait, that's the opposite of what happened, and Whoopi Goldberg is running for president of exactly jack shit. You and her both are cordially invited to take your drooling moral idiocy and pound sand.
Why are you acting all shocked? This is SOP for them.
Nothing new to see here....
Er, the tumor part is probably the only correct part. This is the guy who'd see the honest rape babies as gifts from God. (And don't forget he's a welfare cheat, claiming residency in PA to get school monies or something like that when he and his family was living in VA.)