{"id":245566,"date":"2021-05-20T17:38:06","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T22:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=245566"},"modified":"2021-05-20T15:07:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T20:07:00","slug":"biden-abortion-us-more-extreme-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/biden-abortion-us-more-extreme-nations\/","title":{"rendered":"Writer wants Biden to ‘go big’ on abortion, but US already more extreme than most nations"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Tuesday, May 10<\/span>, <\/span>Washington Monthly<\/span> published an<\/span> opinion piece<\/span><\/a> by Emily Crockett entitled, \u201cWhy Biden Needs to Go Big on Abortion.\u201d It\u2019s little more than a jumble of factual inaccuracies, distortions, and pro-abortion propaganda.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Factual Inaccuracies<\/b><\/p>\n

Crockett claims the abortion pill “is safer than Tylenol\u201d (an assertion<\/a> made by other<\/a> abortion advocates) and claims Lipitor and Flonase are \u201cless safe.\u201d These are perhaps the most glaring outright falsehoods in her piece. Tylenol, Flonase, and Lipitor are medicines designed and intended to treat illness; the abortion pill, on the other hand, is designed and intended to kill. <\/span><\/p>\n

It does not treat illness, because pregnancy is not a disease. Indeed, the abortion pill regimen is <\/span>not medicine<\/span><\/i>. Crockett further bemoans the fact that the abortion pill is \u201cmore heavily regulated than fentanyl.\u201d One cannot help but wonder whether Crockett would analogously argue that other things people might use to harm or kill others (like certain weapons, for instance) should be de-regulated. After all, this would be the only logically and morally consistent stance for her to take.<\/span><\/p>\n