{"id":81973,"date":"2015-12-09T13:52:42","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T18:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=81973"},"modified":"2015-12-09T12:22:59","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T17:22:59","slug":"bernie-sanders-smears-men-belittles-women-abortion-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/bernie-sanders-smears-men-belittles-women-abortion-tweet\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders smears men, belittles women in abortion tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Bernie Sanders, the socialist Vermont senator running in the Democrat presidential primary, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BernieSandersTruth\/?fref=ts\">is a walking caricature in many ways<\/a>, and recently he added abortion clich\u00e9s to that reputation. On Saturday, he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2015\/12\/07\/bernie-sanders-if-men-could-get-pregnant-there-would-be-little-debate-about-abortion\/\">said<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If men were giving birth to babies, there would not be a lot of discussion regarding the right to choose.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BernieSanders\/status\/673337321098371072\">December 6, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s a <a href=\"\/news\/why-men-getting-pregnant-wouldnt-change-the-pro-life-movement-or-the-abortion-debate\/\">popular<\/a> <a href=\"\/news\/thinking-through-popular-quotes-on-abortion\/\">slur<\/a> among abortion supporters\u00a0because it plays to <a href=\"\/news\/fauxminism-radical-feminism-failed-women-children\/\">modern radical feminism&#8217;s<\/a> paranoia that misogynistic agents of the patriarchy lurk around every corner, waiting to chain America\u2019s women to their kitchens, and because it reinforces the abortion lobby\u2019s fantasy that abortion entails no serious moral dilemma they have to confront. But as a meaningful argument, it completely fails.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->First, it ignores the real facts about abortion and why it\u2019s controversial. If every single pro-lifer on the planet really was a sexist pig, it still wouldn\u2019t change the objective fact that abortion kills <a href=\"\/news\/the-science-of-abortion-when-does-life-begin\/\">living human beings<\/a>, nor would it erase the <a href=\"\/news\/rhrcs-lies-show-which-side-of-abortion-debate-has-the-high-ground\/\">laundry list of its related controversies<\/a>, from abortion\u2019s effects on women to Planned Parenthood\u2019s various crimes and misdeeds. Facts are what they are, regardless of the messenger. It\u2019s possible for good people to be mistaken and for bad people to be correct.<\/p>\n<p>So congrats, Bernie! All you\u2019ve proven is that you don\u2019t like us. We\u2019re still waiting for you to make the case that you\u2019re correct to be pro-choice.<\/p>\n<p>Second, rather than a chivalrous defense of women against an army of cads that want to take away their freedoms, it\u2019s actually an astounding act of condescension to women. The fact remains that <a href=\"\/news\/pro-aborts-love-women-so-much-they-pretend-not-to-see-them-when-theyre-pro-life\/\">millions upon millions of women are passionately pro-life<\/a>. Polling shows no consistent gender gap among pro-lifers and pro-choicers; in fact, some polls show that women are more pro-life than men on a number of aspects to the issue. And women hold so many leadership positions in pro-life organizations that opposition to abortion is arguably <em>a movement driven and dominated by women<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders&#8217; comment doesn&#8217;t\u00a0show respect for women as independent individuals who think for themselves and come to their own conclusions. It stereotypes them as having to conform to a hive mind. For Sanders to simply ignore pro-life women\u00a0and pretend this is a battle of one sex against the other\u2014to presume that he, a man, speaks for female America\u2014is more sexist than anything mainstream pro-lifers have ever done. Indeed, it bears more than a passing resemblance to one of feminists\u2019 own grievances: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mansplaining\">mansplaining<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Third, last time I checked, the whole point of gender equality was to affirm the equal dignity and rights of <em>both<\/em> men and women. But stuff like this shows that blatant sexism against men\u2014which can range from arguing <a href=\"\/news\/men-deserve-the-chance-to-speak-out-on-abortion-too\/\">we don&#8217;t deserve a voice because we can&#8217;t get pregnant<\/a> to <a href=\"\/news\/amanda-marcottes-new-low-demonizing-grieving-fathers-of-aborted-children\/\">grotesquely maligning the agony fathers feel when their sons and daughters are killed<\/a>\u2014is perfectly acceptable in the pro-abortion community.<\/p>\n<p>As would be unnecessary to explain to more honorable, fair-minded opponents, \u201cmen would support abortion if they could get pregnant\u201d is wildly unfair for two reasons. The first is that it\u2019s a mass generalization painting men, without evidence, as ultimately selfish beings who cannot possibly be acting out of sincere compassion for the preborn. The second is that because men can\u2019t get pregnant, there\u2019s no way we can possibly disprove it\u2014and therefore no objective means of determining its validity.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, however, we do have the next best thing: <a href=\"\/news\/remembering-men-who-lost-children-to-abortion-on-fathers-day\/\">many men do, in fact<\/a>, offer to support the babies their partners want to abort. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silentnomoreawareness.org\/testimonies\/index.aspx?tcat=2\">Countless<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ppl.org\/index.php\/publications\/abortion-and-christian-faith\/63-ministry\/89-fathers-regret-abortion-too\">testimonies<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theunchoice.com\/men.htm\">from<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeissues.net\/writers\/air\/air_vol7no3_1994.html\">fathers<\/a> grieving over their children they were powerless to save make clear they <em>would<\/em> step up and personally assume whatever burden was necessary to care for these children if they could.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders\u2019s willingness to pander to the lowest common denominator like this is a big part of his appeal\u2014the fantasy promise that rabid, pro-abortion internet trolls would get a president just like them!\u2014but it\u2019s also why a majority of the people who share most of his principles are instead going with the more politically-astute, strategically-minded Hillary Clinton. In the case of abortion, however, both candidates are equally likely to <a href=\"\/news\/pro-life-terrorists-hillary-clintons-unbelievable-smear-gops-believable-response\/\">toss out shameless smears against pro-lifers<\/a>. It\u2019s another reminder of <a href=\"\/news\/house-vote-born-alive-protection-marks-new-low-party-abortion\/\">how completely the abortion lobby holds the Democrat Party in its grip<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Sanders, the socialist Vermont senator running in the Democrat presidential primary, is a walking caricature in many ways, and recently he added abortion clich\u00e9s to that reputation. On Saturday, he said: If men were giving birth to babies, there would not be a lot of discussion regarding the right to choose. &mdash; Bernie Sanders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":82065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[3581,19,4288,611,70,952,1400,74,369,2694,6547,158,991,6546,349],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bernie Sanders smears men, belittles women in abortion tweet - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sanders&#039; comments show that stereotyping women and blatant sexism against men - not gender equality - is acceptable in the pro-abortion community.\" \/>\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\/bernie-sanders-smears-men-belittles-women-abortion-tweet\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bernie Sanders smears men, belittles women in abortion tweet - Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sanders&#039; 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