In an April interview with the Associated Press , Paul focused on reproductive rights, outlining his litmus test for an abortion law that he would vote for. "I think the most important thing is the general concept of: Do you support the sanctity of life? Do you think there's something special about life? So you think when we're born that a human baby is different than an animal, that there's something special that is imbued into human life? And I think there is," he said. Paul a former practicing ophthalmologist , bristled when asked if he would allow for exceptions within abortion bans — allowing the procedures to occur in the wake of sexual assault, for instance. "The thing is about abortion — and about a lot of things — is that I think people get tied up in all these details of, sort of, you're this or this or that, or you're hard and fast (on) one thing or the other," Paul told the AP. While his hand-waving dismissal comes in part from unwillingness to toe the far right's hardline "no exceptions, no way" stance, it also seems odd when coming from someone who's touting himself as 2016's Bitcoin candidate . Paul is hardly alone in his "for me and not for thee" stance when it comes to the idea of privacy extending to a woman's biological functions. When GOP hopeful and Texas Senator Ted Cruz spoke at Liberty University to kick off his presidential campaign in March, he told the assembled audience , “Imagine a federal government that protected the privacy rights of every American.” Imagine! Yet shortly before that lofty announcement, Cruz moved to upend the District of Columbia's Reproductive Health Non-Discrimination Act , which prevents employers from discriminating against employees based on whether or not they have used contraception or sought abortions. Which is kind of private. This week, the House of Representatives voted to strike down the law — the first time the House voted to upend a D.C. law in 25 years — although it took effect Saturday after going stale in the Senate. (President Barack Obama said that he would veto the initiative should it have crossed his desk.)