There is no excuse for this, but apparently it works because the American people are generally as gullible as puppies, as lazy as Homer Simpson, and as irresponsible as eight-year olds with firecrackers. Democrats and their news media henchmen and henchwomen once again decided that it was prudent to gaslight the American people on the topic of abortion, where they have no logical or ethical legs to stand on, but never mind, it’s only about “choice,” after all.
During the first GOP candidates debate in Wisconsin, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Senator Tim Scott and former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson all agreed that, in DeSantis’s words,”the Democrats are trying to….allow abortion all the way up to the moment of birth.” That is unquestionably true, but most Americans don’t like the idea of killing viable babies in the womb—if that’s okay, why not wait until after a birth and decide then if you want to kill the little bugger?—so the troops were called out to deny reality. (This is the current Rationalization of the Century in Woke World: #64. Yoo’s Rationalization or “It isn’t what it is”)
Jen Psaki, the MSNBC host who was the former paid liar for President Joe Biden (Psaki is now looking like a consummate professional since her successor is so incompetent), tweeted during the debate, “No one supports abortion up until birth.” No one! That’s odd: In 2021, the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives passed a bill, backed by Biden, to allow abortion up to birth nationwide if “continuation of the pregnancy would pose a risk to the pregnant patient’s life or health.” Seven states and the District of Columbia currently have no limits on abortion at all, meaning that abortion up to birth is legal, and that Democrats voted for that lack of restrictions. Others states like New York and California guarantee abortion access throughout pregnancy if the mother’s health, so broadly defined that it could mean almost anything, is at risk. The majority of Democrats in Congress support the so-far un-passed Women’s Health Protection Act, which would allow abortion beyond fetal viability.
No question about it: “the mother or the child” ethics conflict is a legitimately difficult one, but it also creates a slippery slope if the solution is that the child’s life is a lesser one, less deserving of Constitutional protection, and considered collateral damage. And it is, contrary to Psaki, an abortion up until birth that many Democrats (and many Republicans too) believe is justifiable.
Meanwhile, The New York Times and FactCheck.org declared the Republicans’ remarks “misleading”; Reuters said the candidates were “missing context.” PolitiFact (of course, since it lies routinely to support progressive positions) and Rolling Stone (ditto) outright accused the candidates of lying. The Huffington Post called the assertion “misinformation.”
The Washington Post gets special points for ethics duncery for claiming that the “common Republican talking point” is untrue because such procedures are “rare.” Uh, you see, Posties, if unethical conduct is supported by a group or individual, the fact that the conduct may be “rare” doesn’t change its ethical character at all. What the Post is advocating is the flip side of “Everybody does it,” the biggest rationalization of them all, except in reverse: not many people do it so advocating it isn’t wrong. Also acceptable under this logic: having sex with kittens, cannibalism, and smashing peach pies into the faces of old ladies in Walmarts.
When Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said this month that he would support a federal ban on abortion after the first three months of pregnancy, saying, “Once a child is viable, outside the womb, I think then the state has an interest in protecting the child” he was immediately tackled by his party’s “abortion without limits” mob, and quickly reversed himself, authorizing his campaign to say that he did not mean to support any federal limits on abortion. His mouthpieces said, “Mr. Kennedy’s position on abortion is that it is always the woman’s right to choose.”
“Always,” last I checked, means always, as in all the way up to the moment of birth.”
The unavoidable conclusion is that Democrats, assisted by “journalists,” are lying about their own position on abortion. They can get away with it because 1) They are getting really good at the “it isn’t what its is” trick, since practice makes perfect; 2) abortion advocates believe the ends justify the means, even if the means is lying, misleading the public and, of course, snuffing out human lives; 3) most Americans don’t think critically about abortion frequently enough to realize the Left is lying and they don’t care that much anyway; and 4) the public has only rudimentary ethical analysis skills, thanks to the decline of religion and the absence of competent education.
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Source: Washington Free Beacon
Ethics Alarms 
Would a later term abortion of SloJo be acceptable? There’s no significant brain function detectable.
Several hosts on WMAL addressed this yesterday including a montage of speakers admitting that no limits should be imposed.
The “rare” 3rd trimester stat of 1% was trotted out but 1% of a million abortions is 10,000 babies, who, according to the Guttmacher Institute that does data collection for Planned Parenthood, were viable healthy babies gestated by healthy mothers.
Any journalist who fails to question the context of a quoted stat is guilty of malpractice. When someone says rare, pin them down to an actual real value. Don’t allow them to use percentages to hide large nominal values or at least demand to know what the base is.
“The Washington Post gets special points for ethics duncery for claiming that the “common Republican talking point”…
Here we have a perfect proof for the sweeping truth that “bias makes you stupid.”
I’m still in shock -psychologically, medically and politically- for what is now years after hearing the Virginia doKtor, a pediatrician no less, and one and the same Governor, Ralph Northam describing what to do when a full term abortion is botched, and (OMG, WTF) the baby is born alive: “.. and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother ..”
Can’t tell me it’s not what it seems.