On Wednesday, Alabama Republicans signed into law their bill to ban all abortions and jail doctors who perform them for 99 years. The bill is so extreme that even fundamentalist talk show host Pat Robertson thinks it will set back the anti-abortion cause — and it has gathered particular attention and outrage because it includes no exceptions whatsoever for rape and incest.

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But to Matt Walsh, a far-right Christian blogger who has written for Glenn Beck’s The Blaze and Ben Shapiro’s The Daily Wire, it’s a good thing that a 12-year-old incest victim would be denied an abortion — because otherwise, her rapist father could just drag her to Planned Parenthood and destroy the evidence:

If a 12 year old is raped by her father and the father takes her to get an abortion, the evidence of the crime will be destroyed and he will go on molesting his victim for years. If however the child is born, his crime will be discovered and she will be rescued from the abuse. https://t.co/emV8tJifWE — Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) May 15, 2019

And this exact kind of scenario happens all the time with the help of the fine folks at @PPFA, who are more than happy to assist an abuser in covering up abuse — Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) May 15, 2019

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Walsh, who has previously claimed that men are “supposed to be leaders” on abortion law, was immediately scorched by Twitter users pointing out how insane his argument is:

This is the worst take I have ever read on Twitter. — Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) May 15, 2019

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Dude, there are easier ways to get attention for your grift than telling 12 year old incestual rape victims to carry the baby to term. — Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants) May 15, 2019

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since the age of consent is 16+ everywhere in the United States, a pregnant 12-year-old is evidence of a crime, galaxy brain — keithlaw (@keithlaw) May 15, 2019

You absolute moron. The doctors would report it to police and preserve the evidence. — Candice Aiston (@CandiceAiston) May 16, 2019

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Also, man, you are embarrassingly dumb https://t.co/Zs7JEGEtEV — Brooke Binkowski (@brooklynmarie) May 16, 2019

Do you think the rapist will be helping her get good prenatal care? Do you think he'll make sure the pregnancy isn't medically sensitive? Do you think he'll take her to a hospital to deliver? How incredibly stupid and callous are you? — Billy Normalis Ipsum (@Your_Pal_Billy) May 15, 2019

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Instead of taking the child to a healthcare professional who would safely treat her and report the abuse, the rapist will beat her, starve her, and poison her until she miscarries. Don't pretend you're doing something good for rape victims. You know you're not. — Max Kennerly (@MaxKennerly) May 16, 2019

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your brain is just two parakeets screeching at each other — hype (@TheHyyyype) May 15, 2019

Even for a partisan stooge who's always wrong, this is surprisingly wrong. You found a deeper level of wrongness, beyond anything scientists had previously discovered. — Snider D. Eric (@EricDSnider) May 15, 2019

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