FORTY LIES IN 40 DAYS: # 12 "Rape is Rape"

 

Buerkle co-sponsored a bill with Todd Akin, R-Missouri, that included the exclusionary term "forcible rape." She has shared other, similar votes with Akin, the knucklehead who said that when a woman is raped her body naturally will not conceive. 

FORTY LIES IN 40 DAYS: #4 Against Government Intrusion

Buerkle says she wants to limit government intrusion into citizens' lives. But she would make abortion a crime.

Buerkle Chooses Overwhelming Cruelty

Posted this morning by: 

National Right to Life News Today, Dec. 7, 2011 By Jonathan Imbody, Vice President for Government Relations, Christian Medical Association, Director, Freedom2Care

Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle, New York Republican, protested that under the new abortion referral requirement [for agencies serving youth victims of human trafficking applying for Federal funds], “Now we are going to ask 12-year-olds to make life-changing decisions. You don’t know the trauma of abortion. This will only add to the trauma already experienced by the victims.”

Ann Marie Buerkle wants us to believe that:

going through a "normal" pregnancy with a child's immature mind and body; and 

having a baby of a rapist, one of your dozens or hundreds of rapists, whom you will never identify, at 12 or 13 years old (to go with Buerkle's example); and

after living as a prisoner and in bondage for months or years; and

ignoring the STDs including HIV that you may have contracted; and

the effect these STDs will have on your baby; and

ignoring your own long-term lack of health care and vulnerability to a wide range of non-sexually transmitted diseases; and

having lost your support network, your family and your culture; and

removing your right to CHOOSE to keep or not to keep, even at this young age, and thereby disempowering you further; 

are all preferable to abortion. How is it possible that Buerkle believes that ignoring all these factors could even remotely be a better choice? 

Buerkle, get this, loud and clear: Being FORCED to go through with such a pregnancy and producing a baby who, along with the pre-teen mother, has zero chance of living a normal and healthy life, is CRUEL and IRRATIONAL. 

Yes, you are right: Blueskygirl is shouting. Sorry.

Both the foetus, if you, Buerkle, proud mother who gave birth to six chosen, beautiful and healthy children, require it to be born and if it survives its high-risk pregnancy, and the child-mother, if she survives her high-risk pregnancy, will have nil chances for lives free of severe health issues, severe emotional issues, poverty and very little opportunity of access to any semblance of a good life.

And please don't tell me that these infants, and these 12-year olds, will be adopted into loving homes. There is not, never has been, and never will be, an inexhaustible supply of loving homes for high-risk infants or pre-teens of any cultural background, including "white." When was the last time you adopted a needy baby, or any child, Buerkle?

And, for God's sake, we remember, loud and clear, that you, Buerkle, have suggested that we diminish or take away the scant medical services that both these victims of human trafficking may ever see.

Oh, please.

Blueskygirl's suggestion: way better to find out how to arrest and throw the book at the traffickers and pedophiles.

Way worse to blame and punish, by your stupid politics, the victims.

Ann Marie Buerkle: This Leopard isn't Changing

That Was Then:

Thursday, July 6, 1989

FYI, those of you for whom Buerkle is a relatively new phenom, it was on this same day, July 6, 1989, that she and her cohorts demonstrated their respect for life, and their compassion for women and health care providers, by bringing to Planned Parenthood an illegally procured, blackened foetus in a jar. During this time she was the local spokesperson for Operation Rescue and associated with extremist Randall Terry; a decade earlier she had started the local chapter of Friends for Life.

Then, this in March 2010: 

Buerkle minimizes her anti-abortion history. [Syracuse.com printed the following summary on January 23, 2011: 

       When she launched her run for Congress in [March of] 2010, Buerkle said abortion was not the issue that would define her, nor would it be a priority of her campaign....

        “I want to be really careful not to make this a referendum on abortion,” Buerkle said as she began her campaign in March 2010. “People here are concerned about jobs and the economy. I have six kids, and five of them live outside of the state because of a lack of opportunities.”

       At the time, Buerkle said her days as an anti-abortion activist were from a different part of her life, when she was a young mother and working as a nurse. “Life is an evolution,” she said in March. “You never stay in the same place."]

But then, this on July 17:

Susan B. Anthony List endorses Buerkle

This Is Now:

January 19 delivers a "passionate" speech in Congress advocating restricting and criminalizing abortion (organized by the Pro-Life Caucus)

January 20 co-sponsors "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act", H.R. 3, which extends its reach to insurance providers and another bill that would ban abortion coverage in future Federal health care provisions

January 22 walks with and addresses a March for Life gathering in Syracuse

January 24 addresses March for Life in Washington DC

February 18 votes for Pense Amendment to defund Planned Parenthood and to all stop most federal funds for women's reproductive health

February 28 Buerkle is a subject of Susan B. Anthony List's expensive ad campaign, thanking her for her vote to defund Planned Parenthood

March 2 she distances herself from the Susan B. Anthony List ad campaign, citing rules about consorting with special interest groups [Ann Marie, Really?]

March 9 she is publicly thanked for her vote to defund Planned Parenthood by Lila Rose, head of Live Action, who shows up in her big bus at the Federal Building in Syracuse [Rose is the "pro-life" advocate who deceptively and dishonestly uses altered and spliced tapes to damage Planned Parenthood]  Susan B. Anthony List helped produce this tragic piece of theatre.