GOP Virginia State Senator: A Pregnant Woman’s Body Is Just a ‘Host’
A Valentine’s Day card sent by the Virginia Pro-Choice coalition asked him to protect women’s reproductive rights, “including preventing unwanted pregnancies, raising healthy children and choosing safe, legal abortion.”
Martin took to Facebook and opined about his anti-abortion stance and women’s bodies. “You can count on me to never get in the way of you “preventing” an unintentional pregnancy.”
“I’m not actually sure what that means, because if it’s ‘unintentional’ you must have been trying to prevent it. And, I don’t expect to be in the room or will I do anything to prevent you from obtaining a contraceptive. However, once a child does exist in your womb, I’m not going to assume a right to kill it just because the bearer of the child (some refer to them as mothers) doesn’t want it to remain alive.”
Martin voted in favor of Virginia’s mandatory transvaginal ultrasound bill, and he supported a fetal personhood bill that would ban all abortions as well as have a negative impact on some forms of contraception.
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