• Metaright@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I wonder if he was misinformed and decided to speak on an issue he knows not much about, or if he was maliciously lying.

    Either way, he ought to be held accountable.

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      1 year ago

      He isnt misinformed, and is lying. This “post-birth abortion” talking point has been making the rounds off and on for a few years now.

      What they are talking about is when a baby is born that has no chance of surviving, rather than forcing the hospital/parents to take life saving measures, it allows for the choice for pallative care for the baby. Its the kindest thing one could do but idiots want to associate it with abortion to make people mad. Every time i hear the phrase post birth abortion i just get sad.

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      1 year ago

      You think that there’s a chance that a sitting governor, who graduated magna cum laude from Yale, and then got his JD from Harvard (cum laude), may be ignorant of the basic meaning of his words?

      Anything is possible, I guess, but the saying, “Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity,” only holds assuming everything else is equal. This is a very smart, accomplished man, who has just chosen to push the worst possible narratives available, all of which just so happen to help his cause. He doesn’t get the benefit of the doubt.