Incendiary
President Donald Trump made an incendiary remark at a rally Saturday night, veering from criticism of Wisconsin’s Democratic governor to a false claim that mothers and doctors have the option to “execute” babies.Speaking at a rally he hosted in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on Saturday, Trump pointed to former Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker, who was in attendance, and said Walker’s successor, Democratic Gov. Tony Evers “shockingly stated that he will veto legislation that protects Wisconsin babies born alive.”
According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Evers planned to veto a GOP-backed state bill that could have meant life sentences in prison for doctors who intentionally did not provide medical care to babies born alive after a failed abortion.
Trump continued on the theme after his initial comment to claim that mothers and doctors are given the choice to “execute” a baby.
Which is a crock of shit.
Asked why abortions would happen at a later stage of pregnancy, Dr. Jennifer Conti, a fellow with the advocacy group Physicians for Reproductive Health and co-host of The V Word podcast, said, “Those exceptionally rare cases that happen after 24 weeks are often because a fetus has a condition that cannot be treated and will never be able to survive — regardless of the gestational age or trimester.”
“It’s this exact reason that it’s nonsensical to legislate these cases: Nobody arrives at the decision to have an abortion after 24 weeks carelessly,” Conti said. “Rather, it’s the rare case of rapidly decompensating maternal heart disease or a delayed diagnosis of anencephaly, where the fetus forms without a complete brain or skull, that bring people to these decisions.”
It’s not a matter of “Oh I want to go to a party that weekend.”
Holy…. There aren’t enough swears. I’d really prefer it if Trump stayed at the “silly and stupid” end of his behavioral repertoire and stayed the fuck out of the evil and malicious end. (Yes, I know many of his actions blend all these characteristics together, but I’d take inane over vicious any day).There will be those who will believe this “because the President said it.,” making it, for them, an established fact. I wonder how much of an overlap there is between this group and these idiots:
Bernie Bros are part of the “Basket of Deplorables?” Who knew? /s
Make that a Dumpster of Deplorables and you’ve got it just about right.
YNNB, I think some of our worst enemies are those that are “on our side”. They demand perfection (though not from themselves) and are often critical of people in ways that are horrifying.
An example: I am part of a theatre group, and we recently had some plays read by a group of readers. One of the plays had two women and a man who were talking about the dating and hook up scene. Some of the readers referred to the women in this play as “dumb whores”.
The members of this group are almost all Bernie voters.
Slightly OT, iknklast, but this worth a read if you haven’t already seen it.
https://www.amazon.com/Damned-Whores-Gods-Police-Summers/dp/1742234909
Also this.
https://theconversation.com/damned-whores-and-gods-police-is-still-relevant-to-australia-40-years-on-mores-the-pity-47753
Thanks for that, Roj. I just ordered that through Interlibrary loan.
Funny you should mention interlibrary loan, as I soon won’t be able to do that as easily, or at all:
http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/2019/miscellany-room-2/#comment-2731503
Ya, interlibrary loan was made fee-based here several years ago. Bad move.
Funny, because it was always fee based at our public library until their remodel; now it’s free. They’re going the opposite way. But it never mattered for me. As faculty, I get free ILL. (Students do, too; it’s not just for faculty and staff).