Jessica Valenti: Abortion, Every Day (10.7.22) Daily round-up of abortion issues

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Debates leading up to the midterms have Republican men saying the most ridiculous shit about abortion rights. Enjoy.

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Abortion, Every Day (10.7.22)
Why are Republican men so bad at talking about abortion?
12:41 PM · Oct 7, 2022

https://jessica.substack.com/p/abortion-every-day-10722#details

In the states…

Despite the almost-laughable level of hypocrisy from Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker—who is running an anti-abortion campaign, but paid for an ex-girlfriend’s abortion—Republicans have continued to rally around him. The chair of the Republican National Committee called the report a “character assassination”; Florida Senator Rick Scott said it was a “smear”; and former president Donald Trump said Walker was being “slandered and maligned.” Lovely.

And because there is no lack of ridiculous anti-abortion men to choose from, check out this moment in the debate for Utah’s 3rd congressional district where Republican Rep. John Curtis said he understands that it “stinks” for women that it’s mostly male legislators creating laws about abortion: “I wish, as a man, I didn’t have to make this decision. I wish women could make this decision.” DO YOU NOW???

Seriously, why are men so bad at this? New Jersey Republican Tom Kean keeps stumbling over questions about whether or not he supports abortion rights—saying he “supports a woman’s right to choose,” except in cases of rape and incest?? After many asks for clarifications later, Kean finally said, “Up to about 20 weeks, a person, a woman, can…have an abortion for any reason. Post that time, those exceptions would include rape, incest, life, health of the mother or the baby.” So the answer is no, he doesn’t support abortion rights. See, that wasn’t so hard!

An Ohio judge is hearing arguments today about whether a block on the state’s abortion ban should stand (the current block expires on Oct. 12). Pro-choicers in the state are feeling optimistic because in his first order, the judge ruled that there is a “fundamental right to abortion under Ohio’s Constitution.”

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