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Old Steve should be better at defending his usually indefensible statements than this...

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2019/08/16/steve-king-rape-incest-abortion-exception-iowa-4th-district-controversy-jd-scholten-randy-feenstra/2029113001/

Quote:U.S. Rep. Steve King takes to Twitter to respond to Republican, Democratic criticism over his rape, incest comments



U.S. Rep. Steve King posted a series of tweets Thursday night condemning critics and news organizations after he asked whether humanity would exist if not for rape and incest while defending not allowing any exemptions in a proposed abortion ban.


The Kiron Republican replied on Twitter to a number of presidential candidates who criticized his stance on abortion, as well as to challengers for the 4th District seat, Republican state Sen. Randy Feenstra and Democrat J.D. Scholten. 


Feenstra had previously said he was "100% pro-life," but called King's comments "bizarre" and damaging to the anti-abortion movement. King replied that Feenstra, from Hull, "favors exceptions for rape and incest," which means he is not fully committed to anti-abortion legislation.

Feenstra did not say in his Twitter reply whether he supported exemptions for abortion bans. But said that Iowa conservatives as well as President Donald Trump "agree that your comments hurt our cause."

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@RandyFeenstra




Congressman, with all due respect, I am proud of my long record of actually passing pro-life legislation that has saved lives. Talk is cheap. Conservatives in Iowa and across America including @realdonaldtrump agree that your comments hurt our cause. #IA04 https://twitter.com/SteveKingIA/status/1162195238884139010 …
Steve King

@SteveKingIA

.@RandyFeenstra you claim to be 100% Pro-life yet attack the leading Pro-Life Member of the US House of Representatives for MY support of ALL innocents from the moment of conception. You are, in your words, “bizarre.” You favor exceptions for rape and incest. That’s not 100%.


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President Donald Trump said he did not know about King's comments, but that it "wasn't a very good statement." 


"I don't know the situation with Steve King," Trump said Thursday, according to a CNN reporter. "It looked like — I read a statement that supposedly he made. I haven't been briefed on it. But certainly it wasn't a very good statement."

Scholten, a Democrat who’s making a second bid to win King’s seat, said in a statement that King is again putting “his selfish, hateful ideology above” the Iowans in the district.

“Excusing violence — in any way — is entirely unacceptable,” Scholten said in the statement. King responded that Scholten's pro-abortion stance is more hateful than anti-abortion legislation, calling the Democrat "the part of infanticide." 


King did not respond to requests for a comment by the Des Moines Register.

More: Steve King stunned by constituent's story about rape and incest, says it requires consideration
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He also wrote tweets about four Democratic presidential candidates: former Vice President Joe Biden, U.S. Sens. Cory Booker and Kirsten Gililbrand, and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro, all of whom called for King to resign. 

King criticized Castro, asking, "you declare that men can get pregnant and then you promote federal funding to abort men's babies?" on Twitter.

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Steve King

@SteveKingIA




Hey @JulianCastro You think it’s NOT embarrassing when you declare that men can get pregnant and then you promote federal funding to abort men’s babies? Genius! A Democrat proposal that will have a CBO score of ZERO! And a bizarre score of 100!!

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In the June, Democratic presidential debates hosted by MSNBC, Castro had said "let's also not forget someone in the trans community," referring to men and gender non-conforming people who are still biologically capable of becoming pregnant, when talking about his commitment to preserving access to abortions.

He also said the Des Moines Register and Associated Press for misquoted him, saying "#FakeNews strikes again."

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Steve King

@SteveKingIA




#FakeNews strikes again. The Des Moines Register misquoted me. Their misquote was picked up by the AP & others. The DMR & AP did correct the misquote. Here’s the clip that proves my point. The New York Times did the same thing to me but there was no tape. https://pgj.cc/BKzZQO 
 YouTube ‎@YouTube




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The correction addressed language in the quote on his time trying to pass an abortion ban in the U.S. House of Representatives without exceptions for rape and incest. King's quote asking  "Would there be any population of the world left if we did that?" if people who were products of rape and incest were not born remained unchanged.