Chris Christie Tries the ‘New’ Republican Technique on Abortion and It Would not Go Effectively

Simply hours after Republicans had been sharing a memo warning them to lie extra about abortion and clarify abortion extra to girls – as a result of the issue is that ladies simply don’t perceive, you see? and they need to do that by saying citing 9 month abortions and claiming that Democrats assist this and have legal guidelines to power taxpayers to fund abortions – Republican former Governor Chris Christie tried these speaking factors out on Morning Joe and it didn’t go effectively.

Mika Brzezinski calls out Chris Christie’s abortion lies on #MorningJoe “there usually are not girls within the state of New Jersey trouncing into physician’s places of work asking for abortions within the ninth month. It doesn’t occur.” pic.twitter.com/mUtaM0Y3tz

— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) November 9, 2023

Mika: Now the problem that you just talked about final evening was abortion. You and I disagree on this situation, however the one factor you retain saying is you retain speaking about abortion within the ninth month, which is allowed in your state. And final time I requested you to love convey me the case the place a girl walked into a physician’s workplace within the ninth month and stated, I’ve determined that don’t wish to have a child.

Please take this out. It doesn’t occur lower than 1 p.c of abortions are carried out after 21 weeks and if there’s a scenario like that, it’s as a result of there’s a huge emergency. So I simply consider all of the candidates, you’ve been essentially the most trustworthy about Trump and election integrity. However on this one respect, I’ve to name you out since you’re not being trustworthy on the problem.

We are able to debate abortion, however there isn’t abortion within the ninth month.

Christie: Mika, you’re the one who’s not. being trustworthy. I didn’t say there was abortion within the ninth month. What I stated was that the legislation in New Jersey and New York and Illinois and California permits it. And you’ll’t deny that that’s the reality as a result of it’s.

And so, and so look,

Mika: it doesn’t, occur Chris.

Christie: Don’t name, anyone a liar. Don’t trigger.

Mika: I’m not calling you a liar.

Christie: By the way in which. Nor, no, no, no, Mika, nor did I say that it did. Let’s have an trustworthy dialogue in regards to the situation. Effectively, effectively, let’s have an trustworthy dialogue about what the legislation permits it in these states? Effectively, that’s all I stated, so I don’t perceive what your drawback is with that. Ultimately, if that’s what the legislation permits, that’s what the individuals who handed these legal guidelines stated is okay, is legally permissible.

Mika: As a result of, Chris, you’re portray an image in regards to the situation of abortion that’s not trustworthy. And this can be a well being situation for ladies. And there are girls who’re in excessive conditions who want healthcare and they need to get it. We are able to debate that. However there usually are not girls within the state of New Jersey trouncing into physician’s places of work asking for abortions within the ninth month. It doesn’t occur.

Christie received indignant at being questioned over a place that may be a lie. He’s claiming that he can’t be known as out for misrepresenting abortions as a result of he’s simply declaring a legislation on the books. He took the tone of explaining to Mika how abortion works.

It’s attention-grabbing to observe how offended a person attempting to regulate girls’s private medical points turns into when he’s questioned, and the way outraged he’s to the purpose of accusing the lady host of calling him a liar when he accused her of being dishonest as effectively.

What precisely do these males assume they’re saying about girls? Do girls not have emotions? Do they not deserve the identical respect Christie is demanding? Why is it simply accepted that males can smear girls as an entirety on nationwide TV utilizing the power of their positions and energy in addition, however when a girl pushes again with the details she’s the issue for daring to name him out.

Christie is demanding that he not be questioned. So, why is he questioning girls?

The underside line is it’s not a great search for a person to be yell-explaining abortion to a girl on TV. It’s additionally not a great search for a person to be suggesting that ladies would possibly simply need an abortion at 9 months for no medical cause in any respect and it takes males like him to regulate girls from these impulses.

In actuality, there usually are not “9 month abortions.” And sure, that’s precisely what he’s suggesting, though he refused to be accountable for it (and possibly we should always focus on a scarcity of accountability on males’s elements and the way that’s 100% of the time accountable for undesirable pregnancies).

You received’t be shocked to study that Republicans already tried this actual propaganda throughout Challenge One, and misplaced in a pink state. They received fact-checked for it then, too:

“Late-term abortions” don’t exist within the medical discipline, in accordance with the American Faculty of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.”

It’s additionally none of Chris Christie’s enterprise why or if a physician would possibly assume a girl or woman requires a medical intervention at any level throughout a being pregnant. “Merely being pregnant poses important short-term and long-term dangers to well being, notably within the US,” Harvard Well being wrote. “We’ve got the best price of significant pregnancy-related problems amongst developed nations, leading to about 700 deaths a 12 months nationally… Black girls are 3 times as more likely to die as white girls from pregnancy-related problems.”

Why aren’t Republicans exerting even a minute of legislative vitality on the truth that 700 girls and ladies die a 12 months within the US giving beginning? I assume these lives don’t matter. Possibly they need to be specializing in how you can make being pregnant safer right here.

Oh, however wait. They’re truly making it extra harmful by ensuring abusers can have weapons. Being pregnant is essentially the most harmful time for a lady in an abusive relationship. Need to guess what the main reason behind loss of life is for ladies who’re pregnant within the U.S.?

It’s murder.

And crickets from these “very involved about life” males.

Moreover, the Hyde Modification already exists, and it dictates that taxpayer cash can’t fund abortion, which is definitely actually problematic. Since Republicans maintain mendacity suggesting that it doesn’t exist, it’s time to have a dialog about how girls who can’t afford abortions shouldn’t be put into that place. An abortion is a medical process and it needs to be lined.

Whereas operating for president in 2020, President Joe Biden made the argument that the Hyde Modification ought to finish. After all, that is as much as Congress and Speaker Johnson, who requires his son to be his porn accountability associate and has pushed abortion bans, will not be more likely to ever contemplate serving to girls.

We’ve already had a “dialog” about abortion. It resulted within the Nice Compromise of Roe. Republicans overturned the compromise, and so they didn’t try this as a result of they wish to be affordable.