“If we continually restrict the freedom of marriage as a legitimate social option, when we do this to people who are a ripe, fertile age and may have a pregnancy and a baby involved, are we not in fact making abortion a much more desirable alternative, when marriage might be the right solution for some freedom-loving couple?” Edwards said.
Well done. These kinds of spins happen a lot where the Republican is still in the wrong, often by a lot, but leftists will discredit, or at least dilute, legit arguments against them with responses to the worst version that is pushed of whatever story. You’ve done a good job of breaking down a different approach
Alright, but also let’s not pull a muscle bending over backwards to find the peanuts in this pile of shit. Too often, conservatives are the worst possible version of whatever they are half-pretending they aren’t. There’s a very good chance that an anti-abortion lawmaker is exactly as misogynistic as this quote makes him seem. When people reveal themselves, believe them.
I don’t think they did that.
And as we said, they’re still in the wrong. And I’m sure they’re misogynistic… they’re republican. But that also doesn’t mean the worst interpretation of what they say is always most accurate.
I think that’s what we often do, and I do think the worst interpretation in this instance is entirely accurate.
But you’re right, I don’t think that’s what they did in this case.
Agreed, there’s also a lot of noise coming from anonymous accounts on social media designed to get politically extremes riled up against each other.