Prince William Del. Bob Marshall, R-13th, has offered his own rather dark explanation for birth defects and child disabilities: divine retribution for women who have had abortions. Marshall told a crowd that the Bible says that the first born is a gift to God, resulting in “special punishment” for those who have abortions.
At a press conference, Marshall stated “The number of children who are born subsequent to a first abortion with handicaps has increased dramatically. Why? Because when you abort the first born of any, nature takes its vengeance on the subsequent children, . . . In the Old Testament, the first born of every being, animal and man, was dedicated to the Lord. There’s a special punishment Christians would suggest.”
I am not why people like Marshall would want to spend eternity with a being who imposes birth defects on infants as punishments for their parents. Of course, he did not explain what those other men and women did to warrant their miscarriages and birth defects.
The press conference involved various Christian clergy calling for the elimination of state funding for Planned Parenthood because the organization provides abortions.
Marshall insists that Planned Parenthood should be called ” ‘Planned Barrenhood’ because they have nothing to do with families, they have nothing to do with responsibility.”
The only funding Planned Parenthood receives from the state is from Medicaid reimbursements and amount to about $35,000 in the 2009 fiscal year.
Marshall’s official bio boasts “a personal library of 2000+ books.” It certainly seems to reaffirm Voltaire’s statement that “the multitude of books is making us ignorant.”
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Alex,
How brushed are you?
Can’t help but wonder where Sarah Palin stands on this particular conservative viewpoint, given her own experiences?
Well Canadian Eh, do you need my physical address to send such delicacy’s? I am always in the mood to try new sweets.
I thought any school was useful and made disciples of all of us ergo to study. Now charm comes in many shapes and packages. What’s one mans pleasure is another man pain. Heck some may call it fetishes….
Enough shameful flirting boys…I must be on my way to get my butt whipped into shape. No AY, that does not include ” useful disciplie “!
BIL,
Interesting, I’ve been told by cookie monsters everywhere that I make the best shortbread to ever melt in a mouth.
AY,
LOL….I dont think that charm school is the place to learn ” useful ” discipline!
Ah ha. You never know where discipline will be useful…..
Canadian,
You must be psychic. We had talked cookies and someone sent me the best shortbread cookies EVER for my birthday. Authentic old school Scottish recipe. I would like to tell you that if the way to man’s heart is via his stomach, that road may be paved in shortbread.
rofl….NEVER!!! Well not to charm school anyhow.
We too are under a snow warning. Believe it or not. Are you going back to school soon?
AY.
Unfortunately for most men I know, I missed that class at charm school. However, I now choose to affiliate myself with only the ones who ” dig ” the fact that I missed those classes!! That, in itself, sets me free 🙂 . Things are good up here, although I hear we are in for a snow storm tonight. I suppose you can already see flowers coming up down your way?
Oh Canadian eh,
How goes it in the great white north? I suppose you don’t know where the woman’s proper place is? Just ask Prince William Del. Bob Marshall and you shall be set free…….
Perhaps he should look at some real statistics, the ones that show the increased rate of disabilities, poverty, neglect and abuse amoung children born to teenaged mothers. Good idea Prince dumb dumb, let’s stop funding planned parenthood programs, which not only offer abortion services to women, but also offer birth control, STI and parenting education to young women as well. I think while we’re at it, we should just start blaming all mothers for all ailments that children are born with or later develop once again, just look at how well that worked through history!!
“In the Old Testament, the first born of every being, animal and man, was dedicated to the Lord. There’s a special punishment Christians would suggest.” – Bob Marshall
In the Old Testament there’s a lot of rules, laws, etc.
All written for the Jews.
So “Christians” wouldn’t suggest anything based on some archaic law from the Torah.
Just one more man trying to run the lives of all women. Isn’t there something to the fact that men contribute genes to the fetus that are the direct cause of birth defects? I have a friend with an MSW and PhD in Child Psychology. She works with abused women and children. She has many studies that show that the older the man impregnating the woman, the chances of birth defects increases with the age of the man. Men reach their peak in their late thirties; from there it is downhill all the way regarding the ability to have a normal child. This guy reminds me of Henry VIII who kept getting rid of one wife after another because she didn’t bear him a boy child. Now, we know that it is the man’s sperm that determines the sex of the child.
I just have one question to ask. With a name like this Prince William Del. Bob Marshall, did the baby daddy momma not who the baby daddy was?
I wonder what 2,000 books he has on his shelf? I bet John Mill and John Locke and Aristotle are missing in favor of Robert Dodson and Gary Bauer and Rick Warren.
Why is it always Christian republicans that say this stupid stuff?
And to think that “Ignorance in some breeds contempt for others.” That is all about that, that needs to be said.
what a reprehensible human being. There may be some organic reason but I doubt God has anything to do with it.
Honestly, it’s hard for me to become outraged by such statements. This type of punitive ignorance has become so pervasive among Republicans that I am only surprised when they say something sensible.