Jill Stanek - What's wrong with Beaubien's logic?

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July 21, 2005
What's wrong with Beaubien's logic?

Jeff Berkowitz, host of Public Affairs tv show and blog host, conducted a refreshing interview with IL Republican state Rep. Mark Beaubien (pictured, right), a potential candidate for Congress. I call it refreshing because Berkowitz didn't allow Beaubien to get away with typical pro-abortion soundbites. For example:

Berkowitz: Does that mean you'd be opposed to parental notice?

Beaubien: I supported parental notification, and would support it, if you could provide for the 30 percent of the people that aren't covered by that. If you talked to state's attorneys, and you talked to prosecutors, there's an amazing number of street children, there's an amazing number of people who are impregnated by their fathers, their uncles, their father's friends, their brothers, uh-

Berkowitz: There's an amazing number of people who don't have parents, guardians or who are impregnated by their--

Beaubien: Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't-- It's hard to go to your father, and say, "I need permission to have an abortion."

Berkowitz: It's hard to go to your-

Beaubien: It happens. It happens--

Berkowitz: I'm sorry. Go ahead. I didn't mean [to interrupt]--

Beaubien: How do you go to your father, when it's your uncle who's the one who got you pregnant? These things do, in fact, happen. Far more frequently than people realize....

Go to Berkowitz's blog to read more on how a proper interview on abortion should be conducted.

In the meantime, what was wrong with Beaubien's logic, above?

Hat tip: Reader Cal.

posted on July 21, 2005 8:11 PM

Comments:

I'm not sure which thing you're referring to, but I saw a couple of problems. For one thing, parental notification laws don't require the teen getting her parents' permission. The parents have to be NOTIFIED, which is why it's called a NOTIFICATION law.

Secondly, if your uncle is molesting you and got you pregnant, aren't you MORE in need of parental help than if you got pregnant through consentual sex?

Posted by: Michelle Potter at July 22, 2005 5:26 PM

Michelle, You got what I was looking for in your point #2. Beaubien's logic was absolutely insane.

Posted by: Jill Stanek at July 22, 2005 5:29 PM