New Hampshire Sheriff Candidate Says He Would Use Deadly Force To Stop Abortions

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New Hampshire Sheriff Candidate Says He Would Use Deadly Force To Stop Abortions
By Annie-Rose Strasser on Aug 23, 2012 at 9:30 am
A Republican running for county sheriff in New Hampshire is facing calls to leave the race after he suggested it is acceptable to use deadly force to stop a doctor from performing an abortion. He has since apologized for his comments, calling them “unacceptable,” but has made no indication that he will drop out.
In a local television interview, Hillsborough County sheriff candidate Frank Szabo said that he values the life of an unborn fetus so much that, when it came to elective and late-term abortions, he’d be willing to kill for it:
Frank Szabo
But Szabo may have inflamed the issue further when asked if he would use deadly force to prevent an abortion.
“I would respond specifically by saying that if someone is under threat, a full-grown human being, if they’re under threat, what should the sheriff do? Everything in their power to prevent them from being harmed,” he said.
When pressed about what he would do if he learned that a doctor was about to perform an elective abortion, Szabo replied he would do what it took to prevent that from happening.
“Absolutely,” he said. “Well, I would hope that it wouldn’t come to that, as with any situation where someone is in danger, but again, specifically talking about elective abortions and late-term abortions, that is an act that needs to be stopped.”
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Toward the end of the interview, Szabo went on to compare abortion to slavery, saying that, in the case of abortion, much like slavery, “”There is a difference between legal and lawful.”
Sentiments like Szabo’s set a dangerous precedent. He is not alone in thinking that doctors should be blocked from providing legal abortion services — Republicans have proposed several bills that would create penalties for abortion providers — but his statements appear to a violent anger. Doctors have actually been killed, hurt, and stalked by anti-abortion advocates. Most famously, Dr. George Tiller, a late-term abortion provider from Kansas, was shot and killed while attending church services.
Among those calling on Szabo to step down is New Hampshire’s Republican House Speaker Bill O’Brien. In a release, O’Brien wrote, “It is our hope that Mr. Szabo will withdraw from this race and think long and hard about grounding himself in constitutional law and principles before considering political office in the future.”

Republicans are losing their fukking minds

 

[radio rahiem]

 

[The Real]

@ "full-grown human being."

Extreme as it sounds, he's actually expressing the core of the anti-choice position perfectly- give rights to something that isn't an autonomous, sentient human being while simultaneously denying rights to an autonomous, sentient human being. The women, and the doctors who are the instruments of the women's will actually have no real rights compared to a fetus- they lose their right to everything from self-determination to life itself when the fetus enters the picture.

 

[Tommy Fits]

It's amazing, for all the serious problems facing the nation like unemployment, income disparity, healthcare, failing education system, cost of gas, failing infrastructure, national debt, ever increasing college tuition cost's, and that's just the very tip of the ice berg, some how abortion of all things has become the biggest issue. It's really sad when think you about. It things like this that make me think this country truly is fukked.

 

[Colilluminati]

Another fool trying to compare slavery with something.


Late abortions are terrible tho.

 

[Mowgli]

It's amazing, for all the serious problems facing the nation like unemployment, income disparity, healthcare, failing education system, cost of gas, failing infrastructure, national debt, ever increasing college tuition cost's, and that's just the very tip of the ice berg, some how abortion of all things has become the biggest issue. It's really sad when think you about. It things like this that make me think this country truly is fukked.

Yea who cares about life when money is so much more important. Its so demonic.

 

[Fillerguy]

some ppl just seem to think the unborn have a greater right to life than post-born