The congressman's latest cause célèbre is the danger that rape and incest exceptions in anti-abortion laws might pose to human population growth
has evidently not been chastened by recent setbacks, such as losing all his Congressional committee assignments and losing the support of his state’s Republican Party following a. If anything, he’s decided to go for broke, as evidenced by his latest cause célèbre: rape and incest. Or, more specifically, the danger that rape and incest exceptions in anti-abortion laws might pose to human population growth.
“What if we went back through all the family trees and just pulled out anyone who was a product of rape or incest? Would there be any population of the world left if we did that?” King asked a group at the Westside Conservative Club on Wednesday, according to the. “Considering all the wars and all the rapes and pillages that happened throughout all these different nations, I know that I can’t say that I was not a part of a product of that.
While not everyone will be as bothered by the notion of a world in which Steve King wasn’t born, the Catholic congressman has been an ardent defender of strict anti-abortion laws which make no exceptions for rape or incest. “It’s not the baby’s fault for the sin of the father, or of the mother,” he explained.
King’s latest commentary, while grounded in his faith, also reflects his growing interest in fringe-right topics like population replacement and. . Lately, King’s bouts of xenophobia have morphed into openly racist complaints about objections to “white supremacy” and “white nationalism.” The latter quote, from a
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