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The BIG Lie: Feinstein on 'Deaths From Illegal Abortions'
By: BJ Date: September 7, 2018, 11:03 am
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The BIG Lie: Feinstein on 'Deaths From Illegal Abortions'
Jordan Candler
As corroborated by their incessant political theater, the
dueling top interests of Democrat thespians are gun control and
abortion, both of which they consider sacrosanct — to the point
that these issues compete with each other as the litmus test for
judicial nominees.
Therefore, no off-the-rocker rhetoric is off limits if it means
Democrats succeed in ratcheting up tension and obstruction.
The most outlandish bout of political theater on abortion this
week occurred while Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) was lecturing
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh — an originalist whose
jurisprudence doesn't bode well for judicial despotism like Roe
v. Wade. On Wednesday, Feinstein ridiculously asserted, "In the
1950s and '60s, the two decades before Roe, deaths from illegal
abortions in this country ran between 200,000 and 1.2 million.
So, a lot of women died."
These numbers were supposedly obtained from the Guttmacher
Institute, but as the Washington Examiner's Becket Adams
reveals, Feinstein was spewing fake news: "The Guttmacher
Institute has reported no such thing.
What Sen. Feinstein claimed during Wednesday's hearing is either
her own ignorant misreading of the institute's reporting or it's
an intentional, outright lie."
Instead, Guttmacher reports, "Estimates of the number of illegal
abortions in the 1950s and 1960s ranged from 200,000 to 1.2
million per year.
One analysis, extrapolating from data from North Carolina,
concluded that an estimated 829,000 illegal or self-induced
abortions occurred in 1967."
Feinstein is conflating two very distinct things — the estimated
number of unlawful abortions every year before they became
legal, and maternal deaths.
So her assertion this week that up to 1.2 million mothers died
because abortion wasn't yet legal — and therefore hazardous to
the mother — is a fabrication.
Yet she does unintentionally make a very important point.
A huge number of people did die every year during that period.
In fact, a life is taken every time an abortion occurs,
regardless of whether or not abortion is legal.
Legality makes no difference.
Remember, 60 million babies have been terminated since abortion
was legalized.
Feinstein told Kavanaugh, "How you make a judgment on these
issues is really important to our vote as to whether to support
you or not.
Because I don't want to go back to those death tolls in this
country." The truth is, even if abortion procedures went from
hazardous to "safe," those death tolls never actually went away.
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Re: The BIG Lie: Feinstein on 'Deaths From Illegal Abortions'
By: RedTest Date: September 7, 2018, 1:56 pm
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Maternal deaths from illegal abortions cause terrible suffering.
Safe, legal abortion alleviates suffering.
Ask yourself who is suffering and then you can find out who
needs help. Crying on behalf of those who never suffered is
only you suffering.
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Re: The BIG Lie: Feinstein on 'Deaths From Illegal Abortions'
By: Highpockets Date: September 8, 2018, 5:09 pm
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Abortion is safer than childbirth.
Abortion has existed since humans have and it will never go
away. You want to reduce the rate of abortion, do it by
reducing the rate of unwanted pregnancy through education and
contraception, and by supporting young women with unexpected
pregnancies.
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Re: The BIG Lie: Feinstein on 'Deaths From Illegal Abortions'
By: Myahny Date: September 8, 2018, 6:13 pm
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If you don't want an abortion, then don't have one. But keep
your fucking religion & laws away from MY body and MY rights.
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Re: The BIG Lie: Feinstein on 'Deaths From Illegal Abortions'
By: Highpockets Date: September 9, 2018, 8:17 am
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Pro-lifers don't really care about reducing the rate of
abortion, they care about posturing and pretending to be super
moral. If they cared about reducing abortion, they would stop
trying to make contraception less available. They would support
sex ed. They would support public programs that help young
women get affordable food, housing and job training.
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Re: The BIG Lie: Feinstein on 'Deaths From Illegal Abortions'
By: ILive4This Date: September 9, 2018, 8:50 am
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Fucking Patriot Post, nothing ever changes.
So much nonsense in the first couple paragraphs, I couldn't even
make it to the numbers. But really, does it matter what the
actual number is? You/them are splitting hairs.
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