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OrlandoDem2

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Mon Jan 17, 2022, 08:35 PM Jan 2022

State Sen. Ileana Garcia, R, signals support for abortion ban even for rape and incest. [View all]

This woman, who won an election by 34 votes that resulted in the arrest of a Republican operative for voting fraud, is sick.

SNIP

"I’m very much a pro-life person.”
Republican Sen. Ileana Garcia stopped short of fully endorsing new restraints on abortion in Florida, including in cases of rape and incest, but her comments about the issue in a Sunday interview indicated if such a law were to come up for a vote today, she would back it.

Garcia, the founder of Latinas for Trump who narrowly won office in November 2020, told CBS 4 investigative reporter Jim DeFede that the percentage of women seeking abortions because of rape or incest is extremely low. Rather than prioritize allowing women safe access to abortion, Garcia said, governments should instead focus on prevention and better forms of the birth control pill.

“The majority of the rape cases, they’re perhaps 1%, and what I ask people is though, for those people who did survive who were born out of an unfortunate rape situation, are those people second-class citizens because the parent decided to have a child even though it was within a rape situation or human trafficking situation?” she said. “I’m one of those people that I would love to be an advocate for more education with regards on not getting pregnant or advocating to pharma to make better birth control.

More at link…

https://floridapolitics.com/archives/487112-theyre-perhaps-1-ileana-garcia-signals-support-for-full-abortion-ban-even-for-victims-of-rape-incest/

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