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Republican Bo Hines wants victims of rape and incest to go through “a community-level review process outside the jurisdiction of the federal government” to determine if they can get an abortion, as Talking Points Memo reported today.
Hines advocated for this “death panel”-esque review process for women seeking an abortion in an interview with local TV station WRAL. Hines has long advocated for extreme restrictions on abortion – he told the Raleigh News & Observer that “Abortion should be made illegal throughout the United States. No exceptions.” In April, Hines called abortion the “greatest moral atrocity” and said it was a “mass genocide that occurred in our country.”
“Bo Hines would make women and girls who have already experienced horrific trauma beg for their right to get an abortion from a panel of complete strangers,” said DCCC spokesperson Monica Robinson. “Bo Hines has demonstrated a disgusting lack of empathy for women this entire campaign. He doesn’t deserve the power to make health care decisions for us in Congress.”
Talking Points Memo: GOP House Candidate Proposes New Post-Dobbs Rape Panels
By Josh Marshall
November 1, 2022
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A week ago, everyone who mocking Mehmet Oz’s suggestion that decisions about abortion should be left to the woman, her doctor and “local political leaders.” Now we have a Republican House candidate who’s actually trying to get concrete about how this works in practice.
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Bo Hines is a Madison Cawthorn-esque candidate who is the Republican nominee in North Carolina’s 13th congressional district. He’s Trump endorsed, with all you’d expect with that.
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According to WRAL in Raleigh, Hines “wants victims of rape and incest to be allowed to get an abortion on a case-by-case basis through a community-level review process outside the jurisdiction of the federal government.”
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In other words, if you are a victim of rape and become pregnant, you would present your case to a community board to see if the situation was bad enough to merit your getting an abortion or whether your rape was legitimate enough (to paraphrase the immortal Todd Aiken) to merit an abortion.
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Hines has hedged on how to legislatively structure his “individual basis” approach. He discussed it in general in this interview. He provided a little more detail in an October 1st interview in which he said that while the notorious case of the raped 10 year old girl in Ohio would meet his standard, “you have to look at each individual case and each individual circumstance and see what happens there.”
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Hines was one of those Republicans who scrubbed his website of his support for an absolute ban on all abortions after the Dobbs decision came out this summer. So the community review of rape abortions appears to be his attempt to soften his once absolute opposition. Eeek.
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