{"id":291885,"date":"2023-05-26T10:48:53","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T15:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=291885"},"modified":"2023-05-24T18:22:39","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T23:22:39","slug":"joy-reid-compares-pro-life-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/joy-reid-compares-pro-life-taliban\/","title":{"rendered":"MSNBC&#8217;s Joy Reid compares pro-life politicians to the Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>On a new episode of &#8220;The ReidOut&#8221; on MSNBC, host Joy Reid interviewed NARAL Pro-Choice America President Mini Timmaraju. During the discussion, the two women said pro-life politicians are akin to terrorists in the Taliban. This is not the first time, Reid has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9782363\/Joy-Reid-sparks-outrage-comparing-Texas-Republicans-Taliban.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">drawn<\/a> such a comparison.<\/p>\n<p>The comments came following a recent North Carolina legislature <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/north-carolina-12-week-abortion-veto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vote<\/a> to override the governor&#8217;s veto of a bill protecting preborn children from abortion after 12 weeks gestation. Pro-abortion activists stormed inside the State House screaming, while Speaker Tim Moore tried to restore order. According to Reid and Timmaraju, this made Moore similar to a terrorist.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That scene of women weeping and chanting &#8216;Shame&#8217; while a man bangs the gavel and basically tells them, if you can&#8217;t be quiet and let us strip you of your rights, you can get out, it felt very Taliban to me,&#8221; Reid said. &#8220;And I bring up the Taliban a lot with my poor beleaguered team. But the thing about Republicans now is that they are acting in a very Talibanesque way. They are a religious group of extremists who &#8212; they definitely don&#8217;t care about children. They want to control women.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NO fear of fact-checkers when you compare pro-life Americans to the Taliban, a &quot;religious group of extremists.&quot; NO fear of fact-checkers when you claim the people trying to save unborn babies &quot;definitely don&#39;t care about children.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>People who love Joy Reid love misinformation. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Wq7o5krcbW\">pic.twitter.com\/Wq7o5krcbW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimJGraham\/status\/1659288071030841344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 18, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;They want total control over women,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;And they are exercising that control &#8212; let&#8217;s put up the map &#8212; all across the former slave states and in states in the West that they control, while women have no power to stop them, or a few like Tricia Cotham join them. And then these women wake up in a country &#8212; in a state where they have no rights. What to do?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/walgreens-cvs-petition\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-283198\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--700x180.jpg\" alt=\"Walgreens CVS banner\" width=\"700\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--700x180.jpg 700w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--300x77.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--768x197.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--500x128.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pro-life Americans are not bound by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.secularprolife.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">religion<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democratsforlife.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">political affiliation<\/a>. Pro-life beliefs are rooted in science and the conviction that human life should be protected no matter what &#8212; from conception to natural death.<\/p>\n<p>Those beliefs &#8212; that every human life should be protected &#8212; could not be more different from the views espoused by the Taliban. Far from respecting all lives, terrorists freely and needlessly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/16\/malala-yousafzai-deeply-worried-taliban-take-control-afghanistan-girls-education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">take lives<\/a>. The Taliban works to restrict women&#8217;s rights &#8212; to vote, to work, to dress in clothing of their choice, to move freely, and even to live. That kind of <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/msnbc-attack-pro-lifers-oppress-taliban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">oppression<\/a> has nothing in common with pro-life laws, which restrict only one thing: the direct and intentional killing of innocent preborn human lives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/give.liveaction.org\/general-donation\/?utm_source=lan&amp;utm_medium=display&amp;utm_campaign=monthly&amp;utm_content=article\"><i><strong>Did you know that as little as $10 a month is enough to reach more than 3,000 people with the truth about abortion that no one else is telling them? Click here to start saving lives 365 days a year.<\/strong><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a new episode of &#8220;The ReidOut&#8221; on MSNBC, host Joy Reid interviewed NARAL Pro-Choice America President Mini Timmaraju. During the discussion, the two women said pro-life politicians are akin to terrorists in the Taliban. This is not the first time, Reid has drawn such a comparison. The comments came following a recent North Carolina [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":291895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[15,3473],"tags":[12032,1672],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>MSNBC&#039;s Joy Reid compares pro-life politicians to the Taliban<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"On a new episode of &quot;The ReidOut,&quot; MSNBC host Joy Reid said pro-life politicians were akin to terrorists in the Taliban.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/joy-reid-compares-pro-life-taliban\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta 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