Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., has come out with some shocking (and bad) advice for Republicans: If you want to win elections, quit burying your “heads in the sand” and compromise with Democrats on the slaughter of unborn babies.
Mace’s comments yesterday on “Fox News Sunday” come after a week of anti-life rhetoric in the wake of the recent rulings regarding the abortion pill mifepristone. Here are five of the dumbest things she’s said so far in reaction to restrictions being placed on a drug responsible for more than half of the nation’s abortions.
1. Parroting the ‘Pro-Birth’ Smear
“If we’re going to ban abortion,” Mace said during the Fox interview, “what are we doing about” issues such as promoting access to birth control (which is a toxic group 1 carcinogen), improving the foster care system and adoption services, promoting women’s health care in rural areas, and restricting Americans’ Second Amendment rights. “There are a lot of things that we can do to protect life and not alienate the independent voter,” she added.
Here, Mace is repeating the textbook “pro-birth” talking point the left uses to accuse pro-lifers of only caring about people up until birth, just because conservatives don’t support leftist policies like expanding the welfare state.
In parroting the “pro-birth” attack, both Democrats and Mace ignore the fundamental issue. While adoption and the foster care system are important, they are separate from abortion. Mace’s dislike of her colleagues’ stances on gun control does not invalidate the fact that abortion ends the lives of unborn children. It does
