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Wendy Davis
"The Cleveland Plain-Dealer's Jeff Darcy did some mansplaining via a cartoon in Saturday's edition, not only completely misrepresenting Wendy Davis and her position on abortion in general, but also stating in an accompanying editorial that her shoes are "blood-red pink" and claiming that she's an "advocate" of late-term abortions, stated in a way that would insinuate that she is actually pro-abortion."
It's hard to know which is more pathetic -- that the cartoon so misrepresents the motives and words of Texas Senator Wendy Davis, or that Darcy himself appears to be woefully unaware that there are still health risks to the mother and the child that can be discovered after 20 weeks. The frustratingly ignorant crux of his argument completely belies the reality that the majority of abortions after 20 weeks are ending wanted pregnancies and are performed specifically because of concerns for the safety of the mother, or because the child has been determined to have what will be a terminal condition, if it even survives to term. No, as far as Darcy is concerned, Wendy Davis is some late-term abortion fetishist that wants to make Texas a haven for baby killers. His language gives no room for even the suggestion of an understanding that there might actually be medically viable reasons for an abortion after 20 weeks."
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/07/1221772/-Shameless-Editorial-Cartoon-Attacks-and-Misrepresents-Wendy-Davis
"The Cleveland Plain-Dealer's Jeff Darcy did some mansplaining via a cartoon in Saturday's edition, not only completely misrepresenting Wendy Davis and her position on abortion in general, but also stating in an accompanying editorial that her shoes are "blood-red pink" and claiming that she's an "advocate" of late-term abortions, stated in a way that would insinuate that she is actually pro-abortion."
It's hard to know which is more pathetic -- that the cartoon so misrepresents the motives and words of Texas Senator Wendy Davis, or that Darcy himself appears to be woefully unaware that there are still health risks to the mother and the child that can be discovered after 20 weeks. The frustratingly ignorant crux of his argument completely belies the reality that the majority of abortions after 20 weeks are ending wanted pregnancies and are performed specifically because of concerns for the safety of the mother, or because the child has been determined to have what will be a terminal condition, if it even survives to term. No, as far as Darcy is concerned, Wendy Davis is some late-term abortion fetishist that wants to make Texas a haven for baby killers. His language gives no room for even the suggestion of an understanding that there might actually be medically viable reasons for an abortion after 20 weeks."
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/07/1221772/-Shameless-Editorial-Cartoon-Attacks-and-Misrepresents-Wendy-Davis
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