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The Alabama abortion bill that just passed in the state Senate is heading to the desk of Governor Kay Ivey. Most are expecting the pro-life Republican to sign it. When she does, Alabama will have the strongest abortion laws in the country until it’s shot down in courts. It will eventually reach the Supreme Court where its fate – and the fate of Roe v. Wade itself – may be on the shoulders of the two right-leaning justices.
As expected, many on the left are already up in arms before the bill has even been signed. Some on the right are saying it goes too far, and I’ll explain in a future article why this is a ridiculous sentiment, but for now I want to focus on one particular unhinged, untruthful, and often unintelligible leftist: Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).
In response to the bill’s passage, AOC told a bald-faced lie and her swarm of followers ran with it. They’re still running with it even though many are calling it out for being patently false.
Alabama lawmakers are making all abortions a felony punishable w jailtime,incl women victimized by rape+incest.
Of course, no added punishments for rapists.
It’s going to @GovernorKayIvey‘s desk. She will decide the future of women’s rights in Alabama.https://t.co/IRR0EtsxHp
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 15, 2019
Tens of thousand of her supporters have liked and/or retweeted it, meaning it has been seen by millions of Twitter users. But it’s a lie. Multiple components of the Tweet are false, but the full-blown Pinocchio impersonation is in the middle when she says “felony punishable w jailtime,incl women victimized by rape+incest.”
This is not true. But reading the comments made by her avid, unquestioning supporters, there are now plenty of people who believe this is factual, adding to the hatred brewing on the left and likely confusing at least a few in the middle and on the right who would find such things to be unfair.
Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles pointed out the truth:
This is a lie.
"Section 5. No woman upon whom an abortion is performed or attempted to be performed shall be criminally or civilly liable. Furthermore, no physician confirming the serious health risk to the child's mother shall be criminally or civilly liable for those actions." https://t.co/b0ykPM2sGx
— Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) May 15, 2019
Others have called her out for it, including OAN’s Liz Wheeler who got into a discussion with AOC in the Twitter thread itself.
This is a lie. Under no circumstances would women be jailed for abortions. The abortionist would be penalized.
Tell the truth, @AOC. You're trying to scare women into supporting abortion. Why don't you tell the truth & see if women support your extreme abortion agenda then?
— Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) May 15, 2019
280 characters is plenty of room to tell truth. It’d never be a felony for women. Period.
It’s despicable to use victims of child rape as justification for 1M abortions every year… because you Dems aren’t seeking exemption for rape/incest, you want all abortion legal always.
— Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) May 15, 2019
Abortion is a death sentence for innocent unborn women, do you care? This is what leftstis do: when they’re trapped in their lies they claim “bad faith” as an excuse to run away. Instead, why don’t you answer this: when does life begin? And what right do we have to end that life?
— Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) May 15, 2019
Others joined in.
Very clever dodge by her to say the “women” she was referring to were the doctors. ?
— Allie Beth Stuckey (@conservmillen) May 15, 2019
She didn’t really MEAN women would be punished just like she didn’t really MEAN we have “12 years” to solve climate change or that her tax hikes would go after “like 10 people.” Come on guys it’s so obvious!
— Bradley Devlin (@bradleydevlin) May 15, 2019
For the record, in case AOC’s lies are too plentiful for some to see the truth, the Alabama abortion bill does NOT punish women who get an abortion regardless of the circumstances behind their pregnancy. This bill goes after those who perform abortion. The taking of a human life is murder and the murderers are to be punished.
Here are a couple more Tweets worth noting:
Everything about this tweet by @AOC is false.
Women who receive abortions in Alabama do NOT face jail time under the new Heartbeat bill.
It is doctors who face prison if they illegally perform abortions and are convicted of a felony, not the pregnant women. https://t.co/JjCAMGSHMB
— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) May 15, 2019
https://twitter.com/FrankelJeremy/status/1128741976373899265
It’s telling the left has to tell bald-faced lies in order to try to make their point about abortion. But the facts are there for everyone to read. No level of Democratic deception can prevent the truth from coming out.
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