The Herschel Walker Abortion Exceptions Policy

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The GOP has adopted a new stance on abortion. Call it "The Herschel Walker Abortion Exceptions Policy." Has nothing to do with life of the mother, rape, or incest. It's for convenience of the father, politics, and personal interest.

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The Herschel Walker Abortion Exceptions Policy
For today’s GOP, abortion is acceptable when it is for the convenience of the father, politics, and personal interest.
4:42 AM · Oct 11, 2022

https://www.thebulwark.com/the-herschel-walker-abortion-exceptions-policy/

GOP Georgia Senate nominee Herschel Walker makes a solemn promise to his audience as part of his stump speech: “All of you here are my family, and my father told me you take care of your family. You are my family, and I’m going to take care of you guys.” From another politician, such a line would come across as a slightly odd bit of campaign-trail pandering. But from Walker, this vow to perfect strangers rings especially hollow; after all, he certainly hasn’t shown that kind of devotion to his real family.

Publicly, Walker campaigns for a total ban on abortion with no exceptions, criticizes absentee dads, and portrays himself as a faithful father. In his personal life, there’s a long trail of evidence showing he has encouraged and paid for an abortion, committed spousal abuse, and is a deadbeat dad. Maybe the disparity could be attributed to his multiple personality disorder. But, Walker says he has been treated for mental illness and “by the grace of God, I’ve overcome it.” No one is supposed to notice that some of those actions took place post-treatment, a fact that reveals Walker’s words of recovery and redemption to be more a matter of message discipline than a feel-good story worth admiring. Walker habitually invokes God and love-bombs inquisitors—“Bless you, love you”—as means of shutting down questions rather than answering them.

Voters have to reconcile Walker’s Janus faces for themselves. His political backers don’t even feel it necessary to try to square his words and his deeds. All that matters to them in the short term is that Walker, should he win, will be a Republican vote in the Senate.

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But what about the long-term effect? Whether or not Walker wins, the GOP will have, by supporting him, implicitly endorsed abortion exceptions that have nothing to do with the life of the mother, rape, or incest. We might call it the Herschel Walker Abortion Exceptions Policy: Abortion is acceptable when it is for the convenience of the father, politics, and personal interest.

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[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[TheRealNorth]

2. Most Republicans are probably okay....

With African-Americans getting abortions. In fact, I bet a large percentage of MAGATS probably wish they could force them to get abortions.

It's the white woman getting abortions they are upset with. They don't want to pay child support for their bastards, but they want to force the women to have them nonetheless. This pretty much summarizes what I have learned from my Trump-loving friends and relatives. Pretty much White Nationalism in a nutshell.