Rick Perry has just pledged not to have an abortion, no matter what. More pertinently to real people, he pledged to prevent pregnant women from getting them safely, and promised to hunt them down and put them in jail or chain gangs or whatever they do to misbehaving women in Texas.
Last night, Perry signed a pledge calling for sweeping federal action to stop abortion and appoint anti-abortion advocates to top federal positions, including judgeships. The pledge, written and sponsored by the Susan B. Anthony Fund, has been signed by seven other presidential candidates with the exception of Mitt Romney, Jon Huntsman and Herman Cain.
By the way, if there were a hell, there should be a special place there for the cynical political manipulators who named their anti-abortion PAC after the tireless pro-woman activist Susan B. Anthony. She deserves better than this, and frankly, so do the rest of us.
(Cross posted at Possible Experience)