Posted on 12/03/2021 4:05:00 AM PST by Kaslin
Rachel Maddow is one of America's most popular proponents of socialism. Government is never big enough for Maddow. Bernie Sanders has a friend in Maddow. But when the subject is abortion, you will not find a more enthusiastic libertarian.
After the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Nov. 30 on Mississippi's law banning the termination of unborn children after 15 weeks, Maddow championed lawyer Julie Rikelman for the Center for Reproductive Rights for arguing this is "about American women being forced by the government to give birth against their will." She added: "This is what the supposed small-government conservative movement has brought us, right?"
Maddow complained about "this very big government idea, the idea that the government will decide whether or not you get an abortion. The government will decide whether or not you stay pregnant. The government will decide whether or not you give birth. It's not your choice. The government gets to decide it."
This MSNBC host has one central issue when overweening government can be demonized. She has one issue where, suddenly, precedents must never be overturned, where she claims judges are acting like legislators and that Brett Kavanaugh now represents "a little mini-Congress with robes on."
The left very eagerly finds a "liberty interest" in the Constitution for the premature death of the unwanted "fetus," for their lust to "terminate a pregnancy." In general, they find "liberty" arguments in American courts or legislatures to be incredibly cynical capitalist excuses. But not when it comes to enjoying sex without consequences. Any woman who can't get an abortion after 15 weeks is now victimized and "devastated."
Maddow touted the headline on a Washington Post staff editorial: "Gutting Roe would devastate millions of Americans and the court itself." Using the word "gutting" to describe the people procuring the literal evisceration of the most vulnerable human beings is pretty sick stuff.
But the Post couldn't stop ignoring the fetus in their editorializing. They concluded any "gutting" of the Roe v. Wade precedent would result in "deep and immediate harm to millions."
Nowhere in the Maddow/Post moral calculus of immediate harm are the tens of millions of unborn children who have been gutted and devastated and poured into dumpsters and sewers since the court decided Roe in 1973. There is only a right to choose, and never a life to lose. They celebrate something called "International Safe Abortion Day." They've poked their own eyes out and called themselves the visionaries.
The legitimacy of the court is now endangered, they argue, as if legitimacy and libertinism are linked. Maddow touted the liberal justices saying, "Hey, if you do this, this will be the end of the court as we know it."
Maddow spoke next to a graphic of capitalized letters quoting Justice Stephen Breyer about the court looking like politicians: "THAT'S WHAT KILLS US AS AN AMERICAN INSTITUTION." Right above those words on screen is a poster claiming "Abortion Is Essential."
The headline on MSNBC's video page is "Supreme Court faces credibility crisis as anti-abortion justices set to fulfill purpose." We're told, "Rachel Maddow explains why the anti-abortion justices on the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade would confirm what many people already think about the court being compromised by politics."
But saying that "many people think" overturning Roe ruins the public standing of the Supreme Court is ... politics. Nobody should pretend that "The Rachel Maddow Show" isn't a soapbox for politics. The "credibility crisis" should be assigned to the liberal media, which only speaks of credibility and legitimacy and landmark decisions when they win.
This may sound harsh but Madcow should’ve been aborted. Hey,it’s not too late.
Snort......my body my choice on abortion........stops when it comes to vaccines.
Declaring Abortion to be a Constitutional right did a great deal to damage respect for the Supreme Court.
Society is not forcing women to do anything. It is trying to protect the lives of the unborn. Women are free to use contraceptives or abstain from sex if they don’t want to get pregnant. People have to forgo many things in this life if they don’t want to deal with the consequences that come with them.
You know that’s the thing that kills me. I got into it with a proabort the other day and they say the Shillong be forced to give birth. When I pointed out that having sex was actually a choice the visceral reaction I got was shocking. Suggesting that she was nothing but a humping rabbit unable to control her libido really didn’t help the conversation I suppose.
Here we are with another issue that brings into clear relief the difference between rational and common sense and politicization. In fact the incidence of rape (true forcible intercourse) and incest is vanishingly small. Where we have lost the language is the notion of rape being any intercourse (yes some feminists say all sex is rape) and that one can cry rape the next morning and wear it as some bizarre badge of Honor.
I think more and more that those who say he who controls the language controls the narrative. We have lost a lot of ground by assuming the definitions are the same for everyone while the left has happily absconded the language. As an example see the stupidity over pronouns.
Madcow can still help save the planet by taking her carbon footprint to zero—time for these folks to stop talking the talk and start walking the walk (or drinking the KoolAid...).
I’m with ya.
All of this makes sense when you realize that Homo Sapiens does what they want to do and then uses language to justify it after the fact.
The left is just more blatant about it.
Nobody should be forced to support a blob of tissue that has little better to do than sit around and smoke pot all day.
If only there was a pill women could take to avoid pregnancy but the Patriarchy won’t allow that
I bet she’s also libertarian when it comes to Israel.
Support other counties, be involved, help, hurt, except Israel.
Just call it a Late, Late, Late Term abortion. After all anything goes in ?”Progressive” world.
Real libertarians believe that you do not have the right to interfere with the rights of others.Rights are the ability to pursue without injury to others.
Liberals did this to themselves. A few years ago there were Dems running around saying abortion was OK up to the point where the baby was crowning. Some were willing to go a bit past that! They have been strangely silent recently…
I have recently wondered why bc pills are not, now, otc meds. Oh, gosh, that would really cut the $$$ off from PP....and end that part of the abortion industry.
Libertarians are not fighters.
Is this like forcing me to get vaxxed?
I’m afraid it is TOO late.. I loved the arguments that woman from the abortion organization - forgot the name - made. Women in MS don’t have insurance and they can’t afford to have babies nor can they afford contraception products!!! That should insult every woman in MS. Besides, I thought AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE aka obamacare was available to anyone and everyone who wanted it..
Babies must be sacrificed because of the burden of having a child puts on a woman; employment, social standing etc.
Do they ever answer the question of would they prefer their own mothers had abortions? We sure wish that was the case in MANY cases. Such imbeciles.
“Real libertarians believe that you do not have the right to interfere with the rights of others. Rights are the ability to pursue without injury to others.”
Fetuses being identified as others? Right?
“Do they ever answer the question of would they prefer their own mothers had abortions?”
I never really understood that question. That’s trying to bend an argument that is based on pretzel logic back into a straight line.
And the reason I say this is to a leftist mind wouldn’t you think that their argument to that question would be “well if I was never born how would I ever know what I would feel about that scenario.”
Societies exist because people have to be civil to other people for that Society to even function.
People go to jail because they are uncivilized towards others. Crime is uncivilized behavior. Bastiate waxes eloquently on civil and societal mores.
Civil society’s remove people from that society who cannot function within that civil society.
You know the more discussions I have along subjects such as these the more I think that only tax-paying owners of Real Estate should be allowed to vote. They got more skin in the game and it probably took a bit of Civility to get where they’re at... then again absolute power and all that...
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