(Update: Click here for video of Marshall making his remarks.)
A Virginia legislator, while protesting funding for Planned Parenthood, said disabled children are punishment for aborting firstborns.
Virginia Delegate Robert G. Marshall (R) said, “The number of children who are born subsequent to a first abortion with handicaps has increased dramatically. Why? Because when you abort the first born of any, nature takes its vengeance on the subsequent children.”
“In the Old Testament, the first born of every being, animal and man, was dedicated to the Lord. There’s a special punishment Christians would suggest.”
You can hear the remarks here.
Marshall has since apologized, saying his comments were “misconstrued.” From his website:
“A story by Capital News Service regarding my remarks at a recent press conference opposing taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood conveyed the impression that I believe disabled children are a punishment for prior abortions. No one who knows me or my record would imagine that I believe or intended to communicate such an offensive notion. I have devoted a generation of work to defending disabled and unwanted children, and have always maintained that they are special blessings to their parents. Nevertheless, I regret any misimpression my poorly chosen words may have created as to my deep commitment to fighting for these vulnerable children and their families.”
I don’t think I misinterpreted what he said about people with disabilities being “vengeance” and “punishment’. And his reasoning about first borns was absurd. How ignorant.
But then again, this is the same man who supposedly opposed abortion in the case of rape and incest because “sometimes incest is voluntary”. And he is the same man that compared a budget bill to slavery.
I have a disabled child. I never had an abortion. What, sir, is my child being ounished for? And frankly, I’d rather he be physically disabled than a mental miniature like yourself. Go eat dung and choke on it.
who is running against this guy and how can I donate?
Wow, this is so disturbing. Why are we worried about elected officials who have affairs when we should be weeding out the real crazies like this guy?