Stewart left out that Richard Mourdock is the only Senate candidate that Romney has done a commercial for. Romney may say he's for rape and incest exceptions to an abortion ban, but he doesn't act like it. And Stewart did a good job at explaining that a total ban in all circumstances is a fairly mainstream GOP position and that people tend to use really ridiculous justifications for the position. His final line is good "If a woman wants to have a baby, in vitro fertilization she cannot, rape, she has to" even if it overstates the IVF issue. I really don't think that the GOP is against IVF, that this is just bad wording in the bills, but it does point out how much of a fine line this is and I do remember all the objections to test tube babies (does anyone still object to them?). As usual, The Onion did a good job on this too, God Distances Self From Christian Right.
Friday, October 26, 2012
Daily Show Does It Again
I really liked The Daily Show yesterday. Jon Stewart not only does fact checking, but he puts the facts in context. Didn't newspapers used to do this?
Stewart left out that Richard Mourdock is the only Senate candidate that Romney has done a commercial for. Romney may say he's for rape and incest exceptions to an abortion ban, but he doesn't act like it. And Stewart did a good job at explaining that a total ban in all circumstances is a fairly mainstream GOP position and that people tend to use really ridiculous justifications for the position. His final line is good "If a woman wants to have a baby, in vitro fertilization she cannot, rape, she has to" even if it overstates the IVF issue. I really don't think that the GOP is against IVF, that this is just bad wording in the bills, but it does point out how much of a fine line this is and I do remember all the objections to test tube babies (does anyone still object to them?). As usual, The Onion did a good job on this too, God Distances Self From Christian Right.
Stewart left out that Richard Mourdock is the only Senate candidate that Romney has done a commercial for. Romney may say he's for rape and incest exceptions to an abortion ban, but he doesn't act like it. And Stewart did a good job at explaining that a total ban in all circumstances is a fairly mainstream GOP position and that people tend to use really ridiculous justifications for the position. His final line is good "If a woman wants to have a baby, in vitro fertilization she cannot, rape, she has to" even if it overstates the IVF issue. I really don't think that the GOP is against IVF, that this is just bad wording in the bills, but it does point out how much of a fine line this is and I do remember all the objections to test tube babies (does anyone still object to them?). As usual, The Onion did a good job on this too, God Distances Self From Christian Right.
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