"Trying to scare women": Fox News struggles to cope after brutal election night for GOP

[Dulcinea]

Abortion rights on Tuesday helped fuel a series of Democratic election victories in key states after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year.

Democrats placed abortion rights at the center of their campaigns and spent tens of millions highlighting Republican support for abortion bans in the off-year election and picked up major wins in those elections.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, who criticized his Trump-endorsed Republican opponent Daniel Cameron’s anti-abortion views, won re-election. Democrats won control of both chambers of the Virginia state legislature after Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin and GOP candidates pushed for new abortion limits. Democrat Dan McCaffery won a seat on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, preserving the Democrats’ 5-2 majority, in a race that also focused heavily on abortion rights.

Voters in Ohio also overwhelmingly approved a Democratic-backed ballot measure establishing a right to abortion in the State Constitution.

https://news.yahoo.com/trying-scare-women-fox-news-140108849.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=0_00

[hildegaard28]

1. We're not

Scared. We're angry.

[cilla4progress]

2. Riiiiiight...

because we are all just scared vulnerable little women who don't really know our own minds...

[Aristus]

6. Yew wimmin-folk gots ta have a man ta perteckt ya!

[Mike Nelson]

3. Hey, FOX hosts...

... you should shouldn't be deciding if women should have a baby or an abortion - and you shouldn't be deciding the week, either.

[Vogon_Glory]

4. The Republicans owed their political success to social reactionaries

like the ones in the anti-abortion movement. Would-be and incumbent Republican politicians HAVE to get those social reactionaries’ support if they expect to get to the general election. But if they attempt to implement those social reactionaries’ agenda, they anger the majority of voters.

A pretty picked—but I don’t sympathize with them.

[Lonestarblue]

5. Republicans may well push the 15-week limit to sound "reasonable."

Here’s the problem with a 15-week limit. In 2020, 92% of abortions were performed within the first trimester or up to 14 weeks. Only 8% of abortions were performed after 14 weeks. While some of these may be elective abortions, most of them were most likely for women who wanted their pregnancies but found out in the tests performed at 20 or so weeks that their fetuses had major abnormalities or endangered their own lives, and they needed an abortion for health reasons or it was just too painful emotionally to carry an unviable fetus to term. These are the women who would be hurt by a ban after 15 weeks because the reddest states want no exceptions for fetal abnormalities or life of the woman. A 15-week ban is not a compromise. It is an attack on the women who are most vulnerable to pregnancy complications.