Alabama Democrat says Donald Trump Jr.’s mother ‘should’ve aborted him’

This set off a firestorm, with the president’s son tweeting, “This is stomach curling and makes Ralph Northam look like a moderate on abortion.”

Northam, the governor of Virginia and a medical doctor, drew criticism earlier this year for his defense of late-term abortions.

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Rogers fired back Thursday, defending his remarks on abortion and personally attacking Trump saying, “That’s an honor. Thank God. Right on … Him being born is the very good defense that I have for abortion. His mother should’ve aborted him when he was born, and then he wouldn’t have made that stupid statement.”

“He’s retarded or crazy, Donald Trump’s son. I knew he was crazy. The best defense I’ve got for abortion right there, looking at him,” Rogers said.

Yesterday, Rogers explained his opposition to the pro-life bill in a rambling speech, where he said he believed that “some kids are unwanted.” Rogers continued, “You bring them in the world unwanted, unloved, you send them to the electric chair. So, you kill them now or you kill them later.”

Rogers also said he opposed the bill because some children “will be retarded and half-deformed.”

“All I’m saying to you is it ought to be a woman’s choice. I’m not about to be the male telling a woman what to do with her body. She has a right to make that decision herself,” Rogers said.

A spokesman for Trump Jr. responded to Rogers’ remarks.

“Sadly, vile comments like this have become par for the course for the Democrat Party,” Andy Surabian told the Washington Examiner. “They’ve become so deranged by President Trump’s victory that celebrating late-term abortion, support for eugenics and even calling for the death of political opponents is becoming their standard operating procedure. I hope every elected Democrat in the country has the common decency and moral courage to disavow these types of grotesque statements from members of their party.”

The bill in question passed the Alabama House of Representatives by a vote of 74-3.

This morning, Rogers doubled down, saying, “You’re killing them anyway. You’re putting them in jail, and that’s the worst thing in the world … You’re killing them anyway, bringing all these unwanted children into the world.”

“Then you’ve got to realize that sometimes when a child is born they tell you up front that if you want to have this child, the child won’t be able to function. This child is already or will become malformed. It won’t have a brain. It might have one eye or something like that.” Rogers said. “And that’s the parent’s decision about whether they want to bring the child into the world like that.”

Both Wednesday and Thursday, Rogers also engaged in some conspiracy theorizing, saying, “Most black folks have their kids. You know who have abortions? White folks. The majority of who have abortions now are white. It’s not about abortion, it’s about keeping a racial balance.”

“Blacks are having their babies, this is done by a lot of whites feeling they have to balance the scale … So there’s a move afoot to put more whites on this earth,” Rogers said.

The abortion rate is significantly higher among African Americans than it is among whites.

Some national Democrats began to distance themselves from Rogers on Thursday. Sen. Doug Jones, D-Ala., who had actually been an attorney for Rogers for years, representing him as early as 1989 and as recently as 2010, called for Rogers to apologize.

In a statement provided to the Washington Examiner, Jones said, “I thought it was outrageous. I was absolutely appalled … I have known Representative Rogers for a long, long time. I think he owes an apology to the people of the state.”

“It is very, very unfortunate and I condemn it in the strongest possible terms,” Jones said.

A spokesperson for Jones said that he had called Rogers personally to express his outrage and to ask for an apology.