[lbo-talk] Still Missing the Big Picture About This Election

[Seth Ackerman]

From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>

> Someone told me that a couple of our new Rep senators believe
> abortion should me made a capital crime (i.e., kill the mother, not
> the fetus). Anyone know about this?

Tom Coburn, the new Senator in OK, said if abortion is made illegal, doctors
who break the law should be executed. That was apparnetly considered a gaffe
in Oklahoma, which narrowed his margin of victory. Along with the "gaffe"
about lesbians in high school bathrooms.

Seth