So much for John McCain, Maverick

John McCain doesn't believe that women should have sovereignty over their own bodies in states where the government is run by Christofascist Zombies. He basically said so to George Snuffleupagus this morning.

So if you think that women don't cease to be human beings with rights to their own bodily integrity just because they're pregnant, you'd better think again before supporting John McCain for president in 2008:

In 1999, the “moderate” version of John McCain said that overturning Roe v. Wade would be dangerous for women and he would not support it, even in “the long term.” Here’s McCain in the San Francisco Chronicle:

I’d love to see a point where it is irrelevant, and could be repealed because abortion is no longer necessary. But certainly in the short term, or even the long term, I would not support repeal of Roe v. Wade, which would then force X number of women in America to [undergo] illegal and dangerous operations.

This morning on ABC, McCain — now aggressively courting the likes of Jerry Falwell — expressed his unequivocal support for overturning Roe v. Wade.

Transcript:

STEPHANOPOULOS: Let me ask one question about abortion. Then I want to turn to Iraq. You’re for a constitutional amendment banning abortion, with some exceptions for life and rape and incest.

MCCAIN: Rape, incest and the life of the mother. Yes.

STEPHANOPOULOS: So is President Bush, yet that hasn’t advanced in the six years he’s been in office. What are you going to do to advance a constitutional amendment that President Bush hasn’t done?

MCCAIN: I don’t think a constitutional amendment is probably going to take place, but I do believe that it’s very likely or possible that the Supreme Court should — could overturn Roe v. Wade, which would then return these decisions to the states, which I support.

STEPHANOPOULOS: And you’d be for that?

MCCAIN: Yes, because I’m a federalist. Just as I believe that the issue of gay marriage should be decided by the states, so do I believe that we would be better off by having Roe v. Wade return to the states. And I don’t believe the Supreme Court should be legislating in the way that they did on Roe v. Wade.

So if you're a woman, and you live in the south, and your state government thinks that just because you've been raped, or carrying an unwanted pregnancy to term might kill you, or because you're homeless and can't possibly support a child, you are shit out of luck, as far as St. John McCain is concerned. John McCain thinks that simply by virtue of geography, you may not qualify as a human being if you're female and pregnant.

Some fucking maverick he is. Can we please put that meme to bed now?