The question from my GOP colleague still rings in my ears: “Do you feel good about all the babies you’ve killed?”

Not too long ago, I was walking back to my DC office after votes, through the tunnel underneath the Capitol. Next to me was a GOP Member of Congress from the Midwest. I didn’t know him too well, so I started what I thought would be a polite conversation. Where are you from, what did you do before you were elected, do you have a family, etc., etc. Just normal stuff. We reached the end of the tunnel, and boarded the elevator to our offices. In the elevator, when we were alone, he “popped the question”:

“Do you feel good about all the babies you’ve killed?”

I told him that I don’t see it that way. Abortion is not murder.

Then the elevator doors opened, and he walked away.

Here are some things that I feel good about:

(1) I feel good about it when women can decide when they want to have children, and when they don’t.

(2) I feel good about protecting the most fundamental right of all, the right to control your own body.

(3) I feel good about women making up their own minds about birth control, rather than male-dominated institutions dictating to them.

(4) I feel good about more children being brought into this world who are wanted and loved, like my five children.

If that Member of Congress was expecting me to apologize for being a proud supporter of women’s rights, including reproductive rights, then he was sadly mistaken. If he was expecting me to rethink my position because of his hit-and-run hyperbole, then he was just naïve — and mistaken.

I have never — and I will never — back down on this issue. Women in America should not have their decisions on health and childbearing stolen from them by men in government. If you want to have a child, that’s fine. If you don’t, that’s fine. It’s really none of my business. And if you help me elect me to the U.S. Senate, then I’ll help to keep it that way.

A few months ago, some protesters who thought that they could stick their nose in other people’s business showed up at my office. They started shouting obscenities, demanding I end my support for Planned Parenthood. My answer was one word:

“No.”

And isn’t it time that someone said this to them? Isn’t it time?

As FDR said, I welcome their hatred.

Courage,

Rep. Alan Grayson
Candidate for U.S. Senate

Answer from Orly Taitz:

What about the fact that the government takes the woman’s right to terminate the pregnancy after 24 weeks?

3 Responses to “My answer to Congressman Alan Grayson, who is now running for Rubio’s senate seat in Florida”

1. Davey Crockett
   December 31st, 2015 @ 9:42 am

   Orly is right!

   And…as soon as that baby has a heart beat and a central nervous system, that can feel pain, it is a viable human/child.

   And if the female doesn’t want children, then, she shouldn’t get pregnant!

   There are ways to stop this before one gets pregnant!

   So how could you not discuss this prevention, as well?

   What kind of a female would take their own off-spring and destroy it? They could put it up for adoption, which is better than being killed!

2. Harry Wilmott
   December 31st, 2015 @ 2:06 pm

   My wife of 65 years and I decided we would have two children. We did. I think one might classify that as management. No woman under normal circumstances need get pregnant. The whole argument is an excuse for bad behavior. For medical reasons an abortion is perfectly acceptable.

3. Greg Alyn
   January 6th, 2016 @ 10:05 am

   Women should and do have the right to choose. Nobody is arguing that point. The problem is women need to take responsibility for their choices. Once you get pregnant you have already made your choice to bring another life into this world. Now you need to take responsibility for your choice and allow that baby in your womb same rights and choices you are demanding for yourself. You can also choose to not get pregnant. It is your choice.

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