Conservative televangelist Pat Robertson says Alabama “has gone too far” in its “extreme” anti-abortion law because it does not include capital punishment for babies conceived in rape and incest
By Julio
Severo
Christian televangelist Pat Robertson has
said that he believes Alabama “has gone too far” in its “extreme” law of near total
ban on abortions.
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The Alabama law contains an exception for
when the pregnancy creates a health or mental risk for the woman, but no exception
for rape or incest. The law, which would not punish women seeking to kill her
babies, would punish doctors who perform abortions with up to life in prison.
“I think Alabama has gone too far,”
remarked the 89-year-old Robertson. “It’s an extreme law.”
Robertson used his The 700 Club, which is
an evangelical TV show, to express his view that abortion should be legal in
case of rape and incest. In answer, pro-life leader Rebecca Kiessling, who was
conceived in rape and was interviewed on The 700 Club on two occasions, said,
“Pat
Robertson @700club, I deserved equal protection. Child sacrifice is an
abomination. The child shall not be punished for the sins of the father! You're
wrong to say Alabama's abortion ban was too extreme for not having a rape
exception. You had me on The 700 Club twice, including airing my story. So you
values my faith testimony, just not my life?!”
The Alabama law is not extreme, because by
allowing abortion for health or mental risk basically allows any woman who says
that she is not psychologically prepared to have a baby to have an abortion.
And if abortion is murder and a physician
can be jailed, why exempt a woman using a physician to kill her baby?
Robertson, who has been an outspoken
opponent of abortion, drew condemnation from the mainstream media when he
implied in 2005 that Hurricane Katrina's destruction of New Orleans was God’s
punishment for America’s abortion laws. So in his interpretation, would God punish
America for abortion, but excuse Americans killing babies conceived in rape and
incest?
If God thought as Robertson does, Rebecca
Kiessling would not be alive today to tell her story. If Robertson were a
lawmaker, she would not be alive to appear two times on The 700 Club to tell
her story about how God preserved her life conceived in rape.
Has Robertson forgotten her story?
If it is very controversial for him, as an
evangelical minister, to defend abortion in case of rape and incest, equally controversial
was for him to have defended that the
Trump administration should not impose any sanction on the Islamic dictatorship
of Saudi Arabia because, according him, by buying many heavy and costly arms
from the U.S., the Saudis make the U.S. prosper.
Robertson has already interviewed Kiessling,
but he forgot. Could he have already have interviewed also some persecuted
Christians from the Middle East and forgotten? Most persecution against Christians
in the Middle East are led by Sunni Muslims backed by Saudi Arabia.
Pat Robertson should see babies conceived
in rape and Christians persecuted by Saudi-backed Sunni Muslims just as God
sees them.
Portuguese
version of this article: Televangelista conservador Pat Robertson diz que o
Alabama “foi longe demais” em sua lei anti-aborto “extremista” porque não
inclui a pena capital para bebês concebidos em estupro e incesto
Source: Last Days Watchman
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