The piece where Landrigan decided to unevenly apply the derogative is here: Abortion ban after 24 weeks advances. The bias starts right from the first sentence.
The prospects for the first restriction on abortion in nearly a decade substantially improved with a state Senate committee embracing a ban on the procedure after 24 weeks unless it’s done to save the life of the mother.
Restriction on Abortion? What would have been wrong in stating “protecting an innocent life,” Kevin? Why is it that when someone is in favor of abortion, it is always nuanced FOR the side of killing a baby instead of preserving it? And look at the next two sentences:
The 3-2 vote of the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday on the bill (HB 625) sets up a divisive debate before the full Senate. The bill moved forward because voters turned control of the Legislature over to Republicans in the 2020 elections.
“Forty-three of the states have (bans on) late-term abortions at or before 24 weeks,” Gannon said. “We will be very much more like the rest of the country and how they view late-term abortions.”
Frankly, even if the intent was good, I hate this argument that Gannon uses. New Hampshire is a sovereign State – what other States are doing should be of little consequence to what is good for us. NH is OUR “laboratory of Democracy” – and we should tailor things as to what is best for US and not California, New York, Florida or even South Dakota. In this case, deterring more murders is good NH public policy and not just because almost all the other states do so.
But this is FAR stupider of a reason:
Sen. Becky Whitley, D-Hopkinton, called the bill “extreme” because it did not have any exemptions for rape or incest. “This would force someone to carry a pregnancy to term where there is little or no opportunity for survival of the fetus,” Whitley said. “As a mother, I could never support a one-size-fits-all bill like this when we know that each pregnancy is unique.”
Is she REALLY trying to make the argument that any child conceived as a result of rape or incest is not viable just because of the type of conception? That’s about as stupid as it gets. This bill doesn’t outlaw earlier abortions, just late-term ones. She’s throwing out a word salad hoping it would stick on the wall.
Worse, she undercuts much of what the Left has been doing for decades – creating such law. Watch when just one word gets changed when the topic is shifted e.g., a child wasn’t killed for the purposes of “pro-choice”:
a one-size-fits-all bill like this when we know that each student is unique.”
But onward to the nub of my ire
The only break in lawmakers’ pro-choice support followed the Tea Party election of 2010, after which arch-conservative Bill O’Brien became speaker of the House with a 3-1 GOP supermajority. In 2012, the GOP-dominated Legislature passed and overcame a gubernatorial veto of a law banning a partial-birth abortion procedure in which a fetus is aborted just before its full delivery.
First off, it isn’t a beverage, it was an acronym for the movement: Taxed Enough Already (TEA). As “a long-term political journalist” here in NH, Landrigan knows better but chose not to be better.
Second, when have you, (Arch Media Hack) Kevin Landrigan, ever used “Far Left Looney,” “Nutroots,” “Uber-Progressive,” “Full-blown Socialist,” “Gun Grabber,” “Anti-First Amendment,” or any other “adjective or phrase” to describe anyone Left of Center? Ever? I didn’t think so.
If you are throwing the modifier “Arch” around, trust me, I make Bill look like a piker. And I am much, MUCH louder than he is.
But thanks for playing.
