Posted on 12/26/2021 8:38:46 AM PST by Kaslin
The political atmosphere is heating up regarding next year’s election and is beginning to indicate a red wave tsunami. At the same time, the Supreme Court appears to be ready to issue a major decision regarding abortion and curtailing (or even overturning) Roe v. Wade.
Enter Dr. Mehmet Oz, Professor of Surgery, Columbia University, the leading Republican candidate for the very crucial Senate seat in Pennsylvania. As a well-known celebrity, Dr. Oz brings serious credentials to the job. However, on the crucial issue of abortion, he is a typical politician speaking out of both sides of his mouth. If Oz continues his egregious double-speak, he may seduce pro-life voters into thinking they have a friend. In fact, such advocacy remains in question.
Dr. Oz claims he is “pro-life” but then avoids the critical issue of when human life begins. Likewise, he makes it clear that he supports a very broad exception for the health of the mother.
In a recent interview on Fox News, Oz was asked when human life begins. His response was, “in the womb.” However, it was then pointed out that life in the womb continues for nine months and thus, was asked at what point in the womb does life begin. He refused to answer. Such a position gives a lot of wiggle room when it comes to legislation that attempts to protect the unborn from abortion.
Does he believe that life begins at viability, the point in time in the womb when an unborn baby can live outside the womb, albeit with artificial means? This is essentially the view of the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade which is now under serious challenge in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Center. Such a view allows for late-term abortions.
What about the point in which a baby’s heartbeat can be detected, which is approximately 21 days after conception? Or, how about when brain waves can be detected at 41 days? How about the scientific fact that all human life begins in the womb at the time of conception? As a physician, Oz knows this full well.
These questions must be answered to enable the millions of pro-life voters in Pennsylvania to determine if his candidacy is worth their support. However, it is his position on a “health of the mother exception” that should raise serious questions as to his claim that he is pro-life.
In Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court said that states could not restrict or ban abortion even in the third trimester of pregnancy if the abortion is necessary to preserve the “health” of the mother. In Doe v. Bolton, the companion case to Roe, the high court defined such an exception by saying that health concerns justifying abortion — even late-term abortions — are “physical, emotional, psychological, familial, and the women’s age.” In other words, any stressor upon a pregnant mother, such as pressure from the father of the child to abort, relates to her health and justifies abortion.
It appears that Dr. Oz, while calling himself pro-life, endorses the policy from Roe that gives us one of the most permissive abortion laws in the world. When it comes to abortion legislation, the United States is one of the most permissive nations in the world. It is one of seven nations — including China, North Korea, Vietnam, Canada, Singapore and the Netherlands – that permits late-term abortions after 20 weeks. This is understandable considering that the health exception in Roe makes abortion restrictions illusory.
Nope, no moslems in the senate. Especially friends of Oprah.
Dr. Oz should piss off.
Pennsyltucky has no love for Oprah, or her Muslim Turk.
He already has. He’s pro abortion. Forget it.
Dr. Oz is just a bizarre GOP candidate. He makes Trump look like a mainline GOP establishment candidate.
THAT alone (okra connection) should be a DQ.
I’m certainly NOT voting for that scumbag.
Neither will I.
The only big deception he is putting forth is that he is a Republican.
You said it first and better than I would
Aren’t we all way past listening to commentators discussing “positions” as if they were costumes?
I would be hard-pressed to put much faith in a PhD named “Oz”. The movie made that quite clear.
he is also pro trans athletes !
this guy is a far left liberal!
Dr. Oz is someone that PA voters like me will have to evaluate ahead of the primary.
Meanwhile abortion cases have reached folks like Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch, along with John Roberts how do they see human life and its origins?
We will be finding out the answer to that question as well in the coming year.
He’s a RINO Fraud.
Says who?
Speaking of talking out both sides,,,
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the leading Republican
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Says who ?
Leading rino maybe.
He’s a fraud and a hack and just another GOPe/UNIPARTY/RINO.
Gun control is health care issue…. Gender insanity.. etc all of it
This guy is a carpetbagging hack.. his claims to get votes about being a conservative are crap…
No need to put another fraud into the senate with an R by its name….
Destroyed Parrel to put this boob up…
Nothing this idiot and fraud can say or do will get my vote…
Sadly though since he’s famous and popular with the housewives and women who watch him on TV.. will sadly likely win and have another unreliable R to betray America in the Senate if he does
He is a far left liberal. Yes. Look at his history. Why would a far left liberal even hesitate to run as a Republican in this climate. Lookbat Romney, Graham, murkowski, Cheney. What do they care?
“he is also pro trans athletes !”
He said trans athletes on female teams is unfair to women.
He was a Trump supporter before many here were.
Trump Oz to his Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition. During the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, he became a regular on Fox News, where he blended well-supported claims about testing and social distancing with unproven treatments like hydroxychloroquine, a favorite alternative treatment among Trump administration officials and Fox News personalities.
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