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According to MSNBC’s The Cross Connection Saturday guest host Katie Phang called GOP Rep. Mike Johnson an idiot for his opposition to near birth abortion. Not providing any evidence for allegations of idiocy, Phang could only argue that such abortions are non-existent.
During a segment with Planned Parenthood’s Dr. Colleen McNicholas, Phang introduced a clip from Wednesday’s congressional hearing, “Well, getting onboard doctor would require people having a basic understanding. Republicans are showing their lack of understanding of the reality when abortions are performed during Wednesday’s hearing. Let’s take a quick listen to what GOP Representative Mike Johnson asked a doctor on the witness stand.”
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The clip showed Johnson engaged in a back-and-forth with Dr. Yashica Robinson with Johnson asking a simple question, “Do you support the right of a woman who is just seconds away from birthing a healthy child to have an abortion?”
Robinson avoided the question, “I think that the question that you’re asking—asking– does not realistically reflect abortion care in the United States.”
After Johnson persisted, Robinson still refused to answer the question, “I am a medical doctor and that has never happened.”
Back live, Phang called Johnson, and by extension everyone else repulsed by such abortions, an idiot, “Good for this doctor, right doctor? For standing her ground and saying you’re an idiot.”
She then told McNicholas, “You know, GOP lawmakers are making the spread misinformation and disinformation into a congressional art form” and wondered “what can health care providers do to combat this disinformation?”After heaping more praise on Robinson, McNicholas tried to tie pro-lifers to the COVID-19 pandemic, “So, for a long time anti-abortion extremists have used the legislature to actually perfect their disinformation campaign. To prime the public for […]
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