NY Times, Daily Show 'Horrified' At 'Radicalized' GOP For Roe's Demise

mrc NewsBusters ^ | July 11, 2024 | Alex Christy

[Morgana]

New York Times national religion correspondent Elizabeth Dias and national politics correspondent Lisa Lerer joined The Daily Show temp hosts Desi Lydic and Jordan Klepper on Comedy Central on Wednesday to promote their new book, The Fall of Roe: The Rise of a New America. It was a mournful time for all as they mused about “radicalized” Republicans and how “horrified” they are about the book's subject.

Lydic claimed that, “we enjoyed your book very much and also were thoroughly horrified by all of it, obviously. But so many Americans felt, kind of, blindsided when Roe v. Wade was overturned, and yet you walk us through every step of the way. This was not an overnight, shocking decision. This was decades in the making.”

She then invited them to “walk us through some of that.”

Dias summarized that “for 50 years, the anti-abortion movement tried so hard, right? They made it their life's work, generational commitment, to try to overturn Roe. This was a moral commitment for them, for them, the greatest moral calling of their lives. And they were not successful until about ten years ago, something changed. And we've taken to calling it, this was the last decade, the final decade of the Roe era in American life.”

She also declared that pro-lifers “had new tactics, new strategies, and they really radicalized along with the Republican Party, and did what many Americans thought unimaginable, which was overturning Roe v. Wade.”

Who radicalized? Democrats used to say they were for “safe, legal, and rare” abortions, but now they are for them anytime, anyplace, anywhere. The fact-checkers like to say that late-term abortions are rare and almost exclusively done for medical reasons, but surveys show that isn’t true. One study, from a pro-abortion professor, claimed “data suggest that most women seeking later terminations are not doing so for reasons of fetal anomaly or life endangerment.”

Nevertheless, Lydic asked, “Where do we go from here? I mean, are women going to have to run for president and have presidential immunity in order to legally have an abortion? Is that where we are?”

Lerer was more neutral:

Well, I mean, it is worth pointing out that many of the most prominent figures in the anti-abortion movement are women… There's no magic wand. You know, President Biden talks about restoring Roe. There's no way to do that without a margin in the Senate that feels almost impossible unless they overturn the filibuster and then all agree on what that looks like, which, as we know about the Senate, that's an extremely high bar to clear. So, there is no easy answer here. There's not some, like, thing that can snap back in place and Roe returns. I think the country is in for many more decades of wrangling over this issue.”

Trying to end on an optimistic note, Lydic stated, “We so appreciate all of the work you are doing and you being on here tonight. We’re still hopeful that there will be, your next book, The Rerise of Roe.”

While Lydic mourns the demise of Robe and suggests women run for president, simply to have an abortion, it should be pointed out that Lydic struggles to even define what it is that makes someone a woman.

Here is a transcript for the July 10 show:

Comedy Central The Daily Show

7/10/2024

11:26 PM ET

DESI LYDIC: We enjoyed your book very much and also were thoroughly horrified by all of it, obviously. But so many Americans felt, kind of, blindsided when Roe v. Wade was overturned, and yet you walk us through every step of the way. This was not an overnight, shocking decision. This was decades in the making.

Walk us through some of that. This was decades in the making. Walk us through some of that.

ELIZABETH DIAS: You mean the secret plan to overturn Roe v. Wade?

LYDIC: Yes. Yes.

DIAS: There was one. For 50 years, the anti-abortion movement tried so hard, right? They made it their life's work, generational commitment, to try to overturn Roe. This was a moral commitment for them, for them, the greatest moral calling of their lives. And they were not successful until about ten years ago, something changed. And we've taken to calling it, this was the last decade, the final decade of the Roe era in American life. They had new tactics, new strategies, and they really radicalized along with the Republican Party, and did what many Americans thought unimaginable, which was overturning Roe v. Wade.

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LYDIC: Where do we go from here? I mean, are women going to have to run for president and have presidential immunity in order to legally have an abortion? Is that where we are?

LISA LERER: Well, I mean, it is worth pointing out that many of the most prominent figures in the anti-abortion movement are women. That there is a strategy to put women at the front of the movement. I think, you know, I've asked a lot of abortion rights activists, like, that very question. What happens now? It took 50 years for Roe to fall. How many years does it take for it to return and nobody knows.

There's no magic wand. You know, President Biden talks about restoring Roe. There's no way to do that without a margin in the Senate that feels almost impossible unless they overturn the filibuster and then all agree on what that looks like, which, as we know about the Senate, that's an extremely high bar to clear. So, there is no easy answer here. There's not some, like, thing that can snap back in place and Roe returns. I think the country is in for many more decades of wrangling over this issue.

LYDIC: Well, we so appreciate all of the work you are doing and you being on here tonight. We’re still hopeful that there will be, your next book, The Rerise of Roe.

[AndyJackson]

You mean revival of the Constitution.

[No name given]

It’s the demonrats who are radicalized, they’re just projecting onto their opponents as usual.

[Leep]

Did jo think Roe had something to with fish eggs?

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

If they wsnt to be horrified, they should consider the 65 million Americans whose lives were snuffed out in their mothers’ wombs. They should also be horrified that their own lifestyles make them consider that necessary.

[Bobbyvotes]

If you think Medicare and Social Security is in bad shape now, imagine the situation with 65 million more people retiring. And 65 million more competing for housing, which is already unaffordable to many young people.

[neverevergiveup]

Exactly!

[No name given]

Exactly.

[No name given]

Not to mention the illegal aliens 👽 invading our country.

[Antihero101607]

I really wish these people would STFU about abortion. I get nothing but Biden, Shri Thenadar, and campaign ads on YouTube done by that bint Zendeya talking about the extreme right is going to ban abortion. Sick of hearing that crap.

[No name given]

That just shows how hedonistic and evil they are.

[Dr. Thorne]

Opposing the murder of babies is radical to the demonized Left.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

That’s 65 million over fifty years, most of whom would have been working age now and, ideally, working. The age span would be between 2 years and 52 years. I have read that one of the reasons we have allowed massive immigration is to have people working to pay for Social Security, Medicare, etc. Schumer the other day justified fast tracking the “11 million, or whatever” for citizenship because “Americans aren’t reproducing as they once did”. Well, 65 million potential workers, not to mention they children they would have had, would have made a difference. They would at least take away one of the arguments that massive immigration is ‘mecessary.”

I do not understand the housing situation so I cannot comment on it.

[Persevero]

And 65 million more people working.

But the Malthusians like to skip that part n

[Gene Eric]

The GOP cannot pretend this messaging to young women isn’t happening.

The are plenty of positive counter-messages concerning Life and young families.

[shanover]

14th Amendment should protect babies but our society is deranged and evil.

[Liz]

Biden Reproductive Freedom Rally

Three People Show Up to ‘Biden For President-
Reproductive Freedom’ Rally at PA State Capitol

By Cristina Laila, July 11, 2024, gatewaypundit.com

A whopping three people showed up at a Biden for President at the Pennsylvania State Capitol with legislators on Thursday.“Biden for President–Reproductive Freedom: Members of the PA State Legislature will join Amanda Zurawski and Kaitlyn Joshua — two women denied life-saving abortions due Donald Trump’s abortion ban–for a reproductive freedom rally,” the announcement said.

Three people showed up. There were more news reporters than attendees at the Biden rally at Soldier’s Grove. Four reporters showed up to the Biden for President rally.

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[eyeamok]

Maybe we should be talking about repealing 19

[TexasFreeper2009]

If they want abortion as a constitutional right, they can pass an amendment to the constitution. But when you rely on the feelings of 5 unelected judges you get what you deserve.

[Bobbyvotes]

Working? Have you seen numbers of people actually working?
There are more free loaders & retired, than workers.