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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhere did the "democrats support infanticide" talking point come from?
I've heard the GOP say a lot of stupid and evil shit about us over the years, but this might be one of the most insane, evil, and abusive things they've come up with yet. And the scary thing is? It's sticking! We don't want to murder babies the second after they're born. That is absolute fucking nonsense and it needs to stop.
elleng
(131,223 posts)TwilightZone
(25,499 posts)Igel
(35,374 posts)Pre-law.
jmowreader
(50,567 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)jmowreader
(50,567 posts)You know as well as anyone here the more outlandish something said against the Democrats is, the better Republicans like it.
I thoroughly expect that before the 2020 election, the GOP will claim the Democrats are trying to build "homegoing centers" where your innocent grandmother can go to be killed then processed into nutritious food for the poor.
"Soylent Green is not our campaign platform!" is where they want to push us.
TwilightZone
(25,499 posts)Another Snopes synopsis:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-northam-abortion-execute/
Initech
(100,108 posts)TwilightZone
(25,499 posts)Same as it ever was.
underpants
(182,951 posts)Local talk radio went hard with the "infanticide" from the get go.
MrGrieves
(315 posts)Mariana
(14,861 posts)There were a whole bunch of cartoons and bullshit stories circulating among the RWNJ's spreading that lie. This is nothing new.
Raine
(30,541 posts)and an outright falsehood ... I'm so sick to death of the deliberate distortion!
2naSalit
(86,848 posts)has NOT had an abortion or sought IVF or men who have NOT paid for such. Make 'em prove it.
2naSalit
(86,848 posts)We need to kill fauxnooz. And I mean kill it right of the planet.
RockRaven
(15,037 posts)They always seem to accuse Democrats/opponents of doing exactly what they are doing themselves despite the fact they know others consider it morally abhorrent, OR they take Democratic positions/values and claim they are the opposite. Probably 90% of right wing dumbasses' accusations and conspiracy-mongering fall into these two buckets.
Marcuse
(7,530 posts)Mariana
(14,861 posts)Lies don't have to "come from" anything. They can be completely made up.
bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)should be allowed to die. NOT subjected to painful expensive procedures that can't help them.
See recent YouTube videos from JimBakker show. He and his guests are calling on all Christian's to protect our babies and vote against the Satanic democRAT babykillers!!
Major push to get out vote for 'God's annointed' Donald Trump who will save the children!!
Hekate
(90,867 posts)Remember when the GOP Congress under Bush2 tried so hard to outlaw late-term abortions?
Women and doctors testified against it -- women with terrible heart wrenching stories, including women who had always been "pro-life" and were faced with awful choices about whether they themselves would die, among other things.
There's always ever been only a few every year, and they are truly medically necessary.
The GOP did not listen to a single word. They have hearts of stone.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)What Gov. Northam was talking about was a nonviable baby being born, and the heart-wrenching discussion that follows between the parents and their doctor. The baby's going to live for hours, or you can go to heroic lengths to keep the baby alive for a few days, but it will be in agony the whole time. And then die.
The GOP purposely leaves out all of that to say the Democrats are executing live babies for [insert conservawhacko trigger meme masquerading as a reason here].
samnsara
(17,650 posts)..one was a 15-16 yr old Spanish speaking only young woman who was carrying a baby that wasnt going to be born alive... her parents MADE..her carry that baby full term and go thru L&D. Seems to me that psychological damage can be made for both cases.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)That there are about a gazillion (#sciencefact) different possibilities out there, and trying to write restrictive legislation to prevent one specific imagined evil is a fool's errand. Just leave it alone, and let those directly involved make the decision for themselves without conservawhackos' "help."
Cass
(2,600 posts)They scream and holler about fake news and are spreading blatently false info all over like rodent droppings without letting any common sense neter into their thought process. They are so deluded at this point. People that seemed like rational people are pushing this kind of ridiculous stuff daily. Im so saddened and infuriated by all this. I shared a Snopes article with someone and they said you cant trust Snopes because they have an agenda.
I really fear for the state of this country. Remeber when Trump said he could shoot someone and not lose voters. Man, he NAILED that one.
demigoddess
(6,645 posts)program had on a woman who claimed to be 13 years old and said her mother tried to abort her and thus she had handicaps. she didn't look 13 she looked in her 20s. 25 years later in another state, I again see some woman claiming to be a 13 year old whose mother had tried to abort her and she had handicaps as a result. Again she did not look 13 but more like late 20s. Everything the same. Mostly the interviewers were saying things like 'you poor girl' and how sorry they were but not asking direct questions. Called the tv station and told them this and they just told me to shut up.
area51
(11,929 posts)actually cared about human life, they'd fight for comprehensive Medicare for All.
Initech
(100,108 posts)Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)samnsara
(17,650 posts)..its the same ol shit......
Vogon_Glory
(9,133 posts)They probably got it from the ant-abortion zealots. The zealots have been corrupting the landuage used around abortion for decades, so clinicians become baby-killers, pregnant women become sluts, and women who abort their fetus well before quickening allegedly practice infanticide.
According to such whack-job logic, ( ), we Democrats supposedly support infanticide.
liberal N proud
(60,347 posts)And using tiny fragments of what someone said or did and blowing it into giant misinformation and feeding it to the media and sheep.
marybourg
(12,642 posts)and I had to wait until the OP revealed this one which is new to me, but Im guessing from their anti abortion stance. The OP obviously couldnt figure this out for her/himself and had to post it here to solicit the opinions of the rest of us. Oh, and just by the way, spread another right wing talking point.