Moscow [Idaho] Senator : punishment for abortion bill

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Moscow [Idaho] Senator : punishment for abortion bill

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Let's pray this Senator will run for US President in 2020 -- and win handily !


"When Moscow Sen. Dan Foreman ran for office last year, he insisted he wouldn’t play it safe in Boise, become best buddies with the lobbyists or turn into a full-time politician.

The 63-year-old retired Air Force officer and retired Moscow police officer said his only concern would be “doing the right thing.”

“I don’t care what people think of me,” he said Tuesday. “I’m here (in the Legislature) to do what I think is best for the people.”

Foreman’s views about what’s best will be on full display when he begins introducing legislation in the coming weeks. The freshman Republican....said he’ll carry four bills this session.

The “most controversial” measure, he said, would classify abortion as first-degree murder — for the mother, as well as the doctor who performs the operation — except in cases where the mother’s life is endangered.

“I don’t want to tell a woman what to do with her body, and neither should the government,” Foreman said. “But using that same logic, how can a woman tell her unborn child it has to die ? Who represents the child ?”

A Coeur d’Alene-based grassroots group, Abolish Abortion Idaho, is circulating a ballot initiative that would charge mothers and abortion doctors with murder, except in cases of rape, incest or when the mother’s health is in danger. However, Foreman said he isn’t carrying any of his bills at the behest of another organization.

I’m tired of babies dying,” he said. “It’s time to start the fight, and I’ll be the point man. I’ve been through two wars and have 11 years as a cop. I’m not thin-skinned.”

http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/poli ... 59554.html

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