It’s one matter for an 81-year-old president to shake his hands in the air, forget where he was, and say nonsense such as “I work for the government in the Senate.” It’s quite another when his left-wing staff releases a hilariously false ad.
The Biden campaign did just that on Sunday when it released “Forced,” which was the president’s very first abortion advertisement in 2024.
The ad shows a woman who says she was forced to leave Texas for an abortion because doctors had told her that the “fetus”, as she claims in the ad, had no chance of surviving. Why did this woman, an OBGYN, have to “flee’ her home state?
Donald Trump has overturned Roe v. Wade.
Yes, I am shocked too, as I’m sure are U.S. Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas. I also suspect that Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh.
I am an OBGYN and the mother of 3 wonderful children. It’s a joy to have this wonderful, beautiful, chaotic, and messy family. I never imagined that I would have to get an abortion because of a planned pregnancy. I had to have an abortion. I was pregnant two years ago with the baby I wanted. After a routine ultrasonography, I was told that the fetus had a fatal condition with no chance of survival.
In Texas, you’re forced to carry the pregnancy. This is due to Donald Trump’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. The choice was taken away. My life was at risk if I continued my pregnancy. This is every woman’s worst fear, and I found it unbearable. We need leaders who will protect our rights and not take away from them. Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Elizabeth Warren are the two candidates.
The thing is?
Because of Donald Trump, Dr. Austin Dennard was forced to flee Texas to get the heath care she needed to save her life. It’s simply outrageous. pic.twitter.com/CcNc6wgN5p
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) January 21, 2024
Joe Biden, January 21, 2024
The lie is: “Because Donald Trump was elected, Dr. Austin Dennard had to leave Texas to receive the health treatment she needed to save herself. It’s outrageous.” It’s insulting and laughable. What — did Trump blackmail the six conservative Supreme Court Justices? Was he so convincing that he convinced them to change their mind about Dobbs’s case?
The ad is utterly ridiculous and ends with two images, first of Biden and then Harris. The president says: “I am Joe Biden. I approve this message.” The caption of the ad was written by the campaign on X:
Donald Trump forced Dr. Austin Dennard to leave Texas to receive the health treatment she needed to save herself. “It’s just outrageous.”
Biden, of course, approved the message. In May 2022, 49 of the 50 Senate Democrats voted for legislation that included a right to abortion on demand up to the moment of delivery. The bill was defeated 51-49 with Virginia Democrat Senator Joe Manchin voting for the Republicans.
Here’s the latest news on abortion in Texas.
Texas is the most restrictive state in the country when it comes to abortions. This has been true for more than a full year since the Supreme Court of the United States overturned Roe v. Wade. Since then, some changes and questions have been raised about abortion and birth control access.
In most cases, it is illegal to perform an abortive procedure in Texas. This includes dispensing and mailing abortion-inducing drugs mifepristone or misoprostol. Texas laws only allow for narrow exceptions to prevent “substantial bodily impairment” or save a patient’s life.
State laws do NOT criminalize abortion. Some Texans can obtain abortions through traveling to Mexico or other states, or by self-managing at home. They can get medications from international nonprofits such as Aid Access or online stores.
According to Texas law, the Texas Medical Board is prohibited from taking disciplinary action against physicians who have provided such treatment. Pharmacies and pharmacists that provide medication prescribed by a doctor in this situation also have a legal defense.
Texas abortion laws do not make exceptions for lethal fetal anomalies, so some patients are forced to carry their pregnancies until term, even if the outcome is unlikely to be viable.
Conclusion:
There is a wide gap between the extremes of one side, which supports and even celebrates abortion on demand until the moment of birth, and the other, which opposes legalized abortion, regardless of lethal fetal anomalies. This suggests that while neither extreme can be satisfied, there are many less extreme positions.
Should the Republican Party campaign in November on abortion?
