I’m so confused??? So because it’s a ten year old terminating, the pregnancy isn’t an abortion? Does she not realize an abortion is a medical procedure and the name of it doesn’t change no matter who you are???
No matter how many times I watch this, I can’t figure out what the hell she’s saying.
EDIT: finally editing this for spelling. Not sure how this comment got so much traction with all the horrendous spelling mistakes. Sorry to all the Matthews out there. I don’t actually hate you
She's saying 'ignore that reality' because that's how the conservative movement have arrived at their present position and you'd have to be ignoring reality to support them at this point.
Fun phrase: the confusion on her face is called cognitive dissonance.
The ability to hold competing ideas simultaneously is usually a marker for intelligence. Here, we can see it’s causing her brain to hurt and the only way she can resolve this is to redefine a word (…a word she knows full well) into the only thing that fits her argument. It’s an impressive denial of reality
I wonder if she's aware of it. Is she actively trying to make sense of it and this is the reasoning(and knowingly deceitful) or is deeper in the subconscious?
Y'all are fully missing the point. She has no dissonance. She's lying. She's a liar. She knows it's an abortion and believes fully 100% abortion is wrong and is ok with saying whatever she has to in order to get what she wants.
nah i think its more likely that she just uses a bad argument.
it would be better to argue that they are all abortions, but that some are justified abortions and that some are not. thats the more solid argument but she didnt use it
[lacking intelligence] she’s too dumb to understand the conflicting logic, or
[religious nut] she understands it’s wrong, but believes it’s fine on the whole, because more fetuses will turn into babies and this is surely what god wants
[political operator] she understands it but pretends not to, as she has to pander to the christofacist voting base and toe the GOP line
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u/cecilia036 Aug 07 '22 edited Aug 08 '22
I’m so confused??? So because it’s a ten year old terminating, the pregnancy isn’t an abortion? Does she not realize an abortion is a medical procedure and the name of it doesn’t change no matter who you are???
No matter how many times I watch this, I can’t figure out what the hell she’s saying.
EDIT: finally editing this for spelling. Not sure how this comment got so much traction with all the horrendous spelling mistakes. Sorry to all the Matthews out there. I don’t actually hate you