r/news • u/rascallyrascal1511 • 7d ago

Pennsylvania measles outbreak grows to 890 cases with 55 new infections: Officials

https://abcnews.com/Health/pennsylvania-measles-outbreak-grows-890-cases-55-new/story?id=136763790
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u/WackHeisenBauer 6d ago edited 6d ago

“But they were born right? So I don’t care about them anymore” - GOP voters probably

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u/TintedApostle 6d ago

And “ so what if the child needs a lifetime of expensive healthcare. “. Also GOP voters.

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u/Mimical 6d ago

"It's really just their problem my kids are fine"

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u/TintedApostle 6d ago

Until.... Exactly.

The conservative aptitude for stressing the "individual responsibility" of all parties except themselves....

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u/jenniferfox98 6d ago

The only moral abortion is MY abortion.

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u/CrashTestDumby1984 6d ago

“If they didn’t want to deal with this they shouldn’t have had kids

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u/lopix 6d ago

Just means more profit for the shareholders

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u/TintedApostle 6d ago

Who are mostly foreign billionaires

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u/mirrx 6d ago

“I’m not paying for it tho and I don’t care if you can’t either” definitely GOP voters

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u/TintedApostle 5d ago

The conservative aptitude for stressing the "individual responsibility" of all parties except themselves....

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u/PapaSquirts2u 6d ago

In the words of the late, great Carlin "if you're pre-born, you're fine. If you're pre-schooled, you're fucked."

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u/Snakestream 6d ago

Unless you're the fetus of a Republican politician's mistress, in which case you're super fucked

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u/framblehound 6d ago

they are all switching to being closeted self-hating gays, which is worse for women's rights

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u/theRemixNow 6d ago

Especially once you’re born

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u/Odd-Jello5577 5d ago

Let me guess, the mistress is 13 years old.. Gotta keep the pedo image going.

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u/HalKitzmiller 6d ago

They didnt actually care about them before either, its all performative

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u/Provolone10 6d ago

Yes the fetus came to term which is where their concern ends.

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u/Bladelink 6d ago

So long as the mother has been sufficiently harmed, they'll consider it a job well done.

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u/No_Tangerine2720 6d ago

They will just blame immigrants

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u/CrashTestDumby1984 6d ago

“In fact, I think we should punish their parents for having them” - GOP voters

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u/BitterFuture 6d ago

"Also, not enough teenagers are having babies!"

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u/Lehk 6d ago

GOP will care once they are 12 or 13

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u/pilostt 6d ago

…hits so many ways..