Virginia Governor Ralph Northam is caught up in a controversy in which it appears he dressed up in black face while in medical school, but it's not the only controversy he's involved in, although this one is a made up controversy conjured up by the right.
As noted by Crooks and Liars: "The right has been on high disinformation campaign as Virginia voted to reduce the number of doctors required to approve a late-term abortion (due to fetal death or severe abnormality) from three doctors to one. The right wing noise machine has ramped up the lies to say this is a pro-baby killing after birth bill. It's not."
The right is mislabeling a women's ability to get a late-term abortion if the fetus is dead or has severe abnormalities by calling it "infanticide" while some are actually calling it "genocide."
On Monday, Fox News host Pete Hegseth wondered, "Why no one on the left is concerned about the Virginia law."
While appearing on Fox, liberal radio host Richard Fowler responded by noting that, "No one on the Left is upset because they actually read the law and know that it doesn't allow that."
But the main point for the right's attack on abortion is really not about the fetus, but their dislike of women having rights. As comedian George Carlin once said in a bit, the pro-life movement "is anti-woman."
As we noted in a recent blog, one of the reasons Honest Nonsense is not going to watch Trump's State of the Union address is due to an article by Politico, which reported that Trump plans to make an anti-abortion case during his speech.
The idea that sexual assaulting, misogynist who has committed adultery, and is incapable of being married to someone who has fake breasts and face lift.
Unfortunately for Trump and the right, a state Representative from Texas has made comments that show the true nature of the pro-life movement being anti-woman.
Texas State Rep. Tony Tinderholt has proposed state legislation that from the “moment of fertilization on fusion of a human spermatozoon with a human ovum” a fetus would have the same rights as a child.
As Crooks and Liars points out, the State Rep. Tinderbolt has been married five times, and after participating in an interview with the Texas Observer, I think we know why.
Rep. Tinderbolt is exactly the kind of pro-lifer that George Carlin said were anti-woman per the Texas Observer:
“Right now, it’s real easy. Right now, they don’t make it important to be personally responsible because they know that they have a backup of ‘oh, I can just go get an abortion.’ Now, we both know that consenting adults don’t always think smartly sometimes. But consenting adults need to also consider the repercussions of the sexual relationship that they’re gonna have, which is a child,” Tinderbolt said.
As Crooks and Liars Karoli Kuns notes, the Texas Representative is only putting the blame of abortions on the women.
"Only one party has to have the abortion, and that's not the man," writes Kuns. "So it's a subtle, but pointed way of telling women to be 'more responsible' with having sex because Gawd knows the menfolk just cannot be."
"Outlawing abortion doesn't mean people won't have sex. It just means women won't have control over their own reproductive health," Kuns added, and ends by asking, "It's not really hard to understand why this guy has been married five times, is it?"
It's not hard to understand, and it's also why it's easy to understand that someone who is clearly as anti-woman as Tinderbolt would be a pro-lifer.
Furthermore, when you think about it. State Rep. Tinderbolt and Donald Trump make a good a good duo to represent a movement determined to take personal rights away from women.
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