Babe, wake up: New Republican comment on abortion so stupid it’s actually funny just dropped. Bernie Moreno, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Ohio, suggested at a rally this week that instead of abortion rights,At a campaign event, Moreno recounted his daughter flying home to visit him. “Mom carrying what looks like an F1 team-worth of equipment—people helped her on that plane.
Pro-family policies are things like affordable childcare, paid family leave and accessible healthcare, not helping a mother with her stroller during air travel.I’m glad for Moreno’s daughter, truly, but I also have to laugh. Forced pregnancy, birth, and parenthood are all apparently swell so long as there’s a kind, burly stranger around to pick up a fragile little lady’s stroller for her. In any case, I repeat: Can’t a gal have both? The.
That said, Moreno’s comments and anti-abortion politics are in pretty stark contrast with the will of Ohio voters, whoin the state Constitution and overcame significant hurdles and voter suppression tactics to do so. The race for the Democrat Sherrod Brown’s Senate seat this cycle could be pivotal to stopping a potential national abortion ban, should Republicans keep the House and Donald Trump win back the White House.
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