The 3 biggest lies Republicans use to avoid admitting they plan to ban abortion

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The 3 biggest lies Republicans use to avoid admitting they plan to ban abortion
Republicans pretend they're "pro-choice" by giving the choice to Republican state legislators, not pregnant people

By AMANDA MARCOTTE
Senior Writer
PUBLISHED OCTOBER 27, 2022 5:45AM (EDT)


(Salon) For decades now, Republicans have been running on an anti-abortion platform. Much to the dismay of feminists, it seems to have done little to discourage voters from turning out for them. It's no wonder, then, that Republicans began to believe that voters either agreed with their anti-choice views or weren't really bothered by them. Then, in June, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, opening the door to a stampede of Republican-controlled state legislatures banning abortion. The result was a widespread backlash that made it quite clear that no, actually, the public does not support abortion bans. Instead, it seems that voters had spent years dismissing Republican anti-choice views as empty gestures to placate the religious right, not action plans. (The idea that right wing radicalism is "just talk" strikes again!)

Now the public understands Republicans are dead serious about banning abortion. Abortion has been totally banned in 13 states and banned at six weeks — which may as well be a total ban — in Georgia. Multiple other states have banned second trimester abortions, putting patients who don't discover fetal anomalies until that stage in crisis. Experts believe that soon abortion will be banned in half the states.

For their political prospects, however, Republican politicians would very much like to return to the before times, when voters believed all this "pro-life" talk was meaningless noise, not a concrete plan to dismantle reproductive rights. The rhetoric deployed to prop up this illusion has gone well beyond the typical verbal embroidery politicians employ. Instead, it can be characterized as outright dishonesty meant to trick voters into giving up their own rights. Here's the three biggest talking points Republican politicians are using to distract from their true views on abortion access, and why folks should not fall for them.

Dr. Mehmet Oz, the GOP candidate for Senate in Pennsylvania, falsely claimed Tuesday that his Democratic opponent, Lt. Gov. John Fetterman would "allow abortion at 38 weeks, on the delivery table." Monday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis accused his opponent, of supporting abortion "until the moment of birth." Donald Trump takes it to the next level, routinely claiming women go through the entire birth process just so the doctor can "execute" the baby in the delivery room. .............(more)

https://www.salon.com/2022/10/27/the-3-biggest-lies-use-to-avoid-admitting-they-plan-to-ban-abortion/

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