Republicans have spent decades taking increasingly extreme positions on abortion while also fighting back family support plans like the child tax credit, paid parental leave, prenatal care, and government-subsidized child care. But now that it's clear that their extreme forced pronatalism is slightly less popular than the vegan raw tapas booth at CPAC, they're trying to pretend they're not Republicans.
Now the Republican Party's standout sleeper has found an example in U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake. Lake, a major proponent of her Big Lie in her Arizona gubernatorial run who denied the results of her own election, said she believed she would be a voter when it came to forcing her to give birth to her baby and that she was not in the clear of her true heart. You want to believe that you have gone through a change. I do not want.
In a new interview with NBC News, Lake sought to distance herself from past forced birth stances, such as Quint's hasty flight from the shark at the end of “Jaws.” Maybe the interview wasn't as terrible as that scene, but 'Jaws' wasn't filmed through this scene. 6 layers of gauze and plenty of Vaseline Squeezing your Clydesdale through the cat door.
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Kari Lake, an Arizona Republican running for Senate, declared abortion the “ultimate sin” and said abortion pills should be illegal. Praise Legislation restricting reproductive rights in other conservative-led states. Last August, Lake was in Ohio campaigning for a ballot measure that would make it more difficult to pass a constitutional amendment specifying abortion rights.
So does that mean she still takes a principled stance on abortion? For decades, right-wing Republicans have held the belief that human life begins at conception and that the destruction of even a single human embryo is so displeasing to God that He is constantly creating new, deadly natural disasters to punish us.
Of course, some of these people are thoughtful, compassionate, and will obviously kill a lot of human Americans. But, as they say, you can't save an embryo without breaking a few intellectuals.
Now, in an exclusive interview with NBC News, Lake is talking about Roe v. 1973, which recognized abortion rights nationally. He is trying to soften his position by acknowledging the difficult position Republicans face after the Supreme Court overturned the Wade decision.
Lake believes Arizona will enact rules allowing abortions up to 15 to 24 weeks. She called the state's current 15-week limit “good law” and told NBC News she does not support Arizona's controversial territorial rule that would ban abortions almost entirely, which has been disputed in court. Recently, in November 2023, Lake answered the question “I haven’t changed,” he said of his previous support for the territorial ban.
Oh no, you haven't changed one bit, Kari. Once a liar, always a liar.
Of course, it's easy to read between the li when it comes to Lake's latest announcement.Nyes.
For example, Lake now says federal lawmakers must maintain a hands-off stance on abortion. This is very convenient considering she is currently running for federal office and wants to avoid answering questions about her abortion.
Lake now argues that “states must decide” on abortion restrictions. But when pressed by NBC News, she said, “She declined to weigh in on whether she would vote for protection. [in vitro fertilization] “Across the country if she gets elected.” If she's like any other lying Republican currently trying to distance herself from the Alabama Supreme Court's recent wacky IVF decision, she almost certainly won't, so let's take a wild guess at that.
But if there's a drummer in the Lake, wealthy Republicans can still have access to all the reproductive health care they need in the blue state of their choice!
“If one state bans abortion, other states will allow it,” she told NBC News. Then women will also be able to access abortion,” she said.
Meanwhile, Lake is trying to pretend he cares about supporting the children and their families who have now fallen into a new fascist valley of tears. In fact, some of her NBC interviews almost made her sound like a Democrat!
According to NBC News, she is now “focused on finding solutions to ease the burden on mothers and expectant mothers… and is committed to helping pass baby bonuses, a larger child tax credit, and paid family leave.” “I promised myself I would do it.”
“What we need to do is actually support women and give them real choices,” she said. “We have to prioritize. We talk about being a pro-family and it’s time to put our money where our mouth is.”
“Congress has spent nearly $200 billion on Ukraine and recently wanted to send another $75 billion,” she said. Instead, we can invest that money into American families through baby bonuses, prenatal care, parent resources and classes, and child care.”
Well, we've already seen a major expansion of the child tax credit thanks to President Joe Biden and Democratic lawmakers. This has lifted millions of vulnerable children and families out of poverty. Of course, the Republicans got rid of it. Because they are Republicans.
So it's a little infuriating that they're making these empty promises to get elected and continue to lower taxes for the rich.
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Of course, Lake's Potemkin policy prescriptions are just the tip of the iceberg that Republicans are trying to address in November. They have yet to successfully thread the needle on abortion rights.DobbsAnd it is our sacred task to keep slapping them away when they try.
After all, they're trying to get Donald Trump to run for president. He has stripped the reproductive rights of tens of millions of Americans, boasted of doing so, and is now contemplating a national abortion ban.
But liars will lie, and it is up to us to tell the plain truth. Electing Republicans to federal office will only further threaten reproductive rights and access to contraception. As Daily Kos' Joan McCarter reported in November, a nationwide abortion ban is firmly on the ballot this year, and a vote for Trump would not only grease the skids of an even more extreme SCOTUS, but also undermine Americans' access to abortion. will threaten immediately. A widely used contraceptive.
The Heritage Foundation has developed the following plans: ambitious totalitarian agenda For the next Republican president, whoever it may be. Don't think that women's bodies are exempt from their plans. they I was making plans It would allow the incoming Republican administration to ban most abortions, using a 19th-century law written to prevent women from using birth control pills.
that much Comstock Act of 1873 It prohibits the mailing of contraceptives, “obscene” writings, and any “instruments, substances, drugs, medicines or objects” that could be used in abortion. It was dormant after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling, but Griswold v. Connecticut Even after the 1965 ruling, the law remains in effect. It is like experiencing a resurgence in the 21st century Republican Party. Wing-nut U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk quoted it When he issued a ruling last spring preventing the Food and Drug Administration from allowing mifepristone; more than half US abortion documents are sent via US mail. That's still being litigated.
Now that 1873 is back in style, the Heritage Foundation assert The next president could act unilaterally as ordered by Kacsmaryk. Comstock “explicitly bans the mailing of abortion medications” and the Republican president must “We enforce federal laws against our suppliers and distributors. [abortion] doctor.”
Of course, Republican attempts to pander to independent and suburban women's access to abortion can be a double-edged sword. At what point do all their concessions to common sense and political expediency begin to demoralize their fierce right-wing base? If Trump no longer takes the debate stage promising to nominate anti-abortion judges, will truly believing dairy advocates still flock to the polls on his behalf?
If so, it's just because Republicans know they're lying about these issues. So how pathetic would that be? them Did he see through the ruse and not see us? We cannot allow that to happen. Now more than ever we need to be vigilant and make our (authentic) voices heard.
The campaign of Lake's Democratic opponent, Rep. Ruben Gallego, notes that neither Lake nor any Republican can be trusted to make public statements on the issue.
“Kari Lake will say anything to get elected, but her actions are clear. “She supports banning abortions without exceptions for rape or incest and will ban medication abortions,” Gallego’s campaign spokeswoman Hannah Goss told NBC News. “Arizonans will not be fooled by her attempts to clear her record.”
Republican strategist Barrett Marson seems to agree. “She can read the polls and see that she needs to step down,” he said in an interview with NBC News, before acknowledging that her previous stance on abortion will not be forgotten.
“Lake Kari in 2022 is the biggest enemy of Lake Kari in 2024.”
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