As we documentedrepeatedly in the days and weeks after the Alabama Supreme Court found that embryos created as part of in-vitro fertility treatment are considered “children” and protected as such in wrongful death suits, Republicans stepped upon rake after rake, stumbling their way into a full faceplant on the issue. And for good reason: It’s cartoonishly hard to support the kind of fetal personhood ideology underlying the Alabama ruling while also supporting the procedure for what it is — a safe and widely supported way for couples experiencing fertility issues to conceive.
I am not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
I have been around the block a few times.
I even stayed out after dark a time or two.
Since I have never believed anything Trump has said, I wonder how fucking stupid his followers are?
I would guess that even the Alabama judge that made the ruling “supports IVF”…that really is NOT the question. If embryos are children, it shouldn’t matter from whence the embryo came. And that should be the follow up question every time:
“Mr. Trump, you are probably right that the vast majority of Americans support IVF, however a large majority also reject the idea that an embryo is a person – Do you believe embryos are persons?”
An embryo cannot survive without a womb, so, in one sense, it’s a parasite. It has no way to live on it’s own. That’s not life. You might as well call the rhinovirus a person.
Another, perhaps even greater, reason is to use the IDEA of controlling women in order to motivate their base. It’s a subtle distinction perhaps and perhaps one without practical differences.
Just making up numbers out of whole cloth I’d argue that 45% want to ban abortion to control women, and 45% want to ban abortion to bring out the votes, and 10% what to ban abortion because they really and truly care about ‘unborn babies’. And I may be over-estimating the 10%.
To be fair (ha) to the Alabama Judicial Christofascists, their ruling against IVF was completely logical given their purported belief that life begins at conception.
It’s the dishonest pretzeling trying to un-ban IVF that is blatantly trying to get them out of the same logical corner that is really hypocritical.
And no one cares what TMFWWNBN says - he doesn’t mean anything that comes out of his unfortunately shaped orifice, apart from “give me all your money”. Consistency is a completely alien concept and the GQP policy will just be an arrow point at the Dotard going “whatever the fat guy wants”
The GOP is so “pro life” that they supported providing vectors to ensure the spread of COVID (though it is technically debatable whether a virus is “life”).
