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LEBANON, Ohio (WCMH) — Ohio’s Republican candidate for U.S. Senate questioned why a certain group of women would be concerned about abortion during an event in the state.

NBC4 obtained a video recording from a Warren County town hall on Friday, where GOP Senate hopeful Bernie Moreno accused suburban women of being focused solely on their ability to get an abortion. 

“You know, the left has a lot of single issue voters,” Moreno said. “Sadly, by the way, there’s a lot of suburban women, a lot of suburban women that are like, ‘Listen, abortion is it. If I can’t have an abortion in this country whenever I want, I will vote for anybody else.’ … OK. It’s a little crazy by the way, but — especially for women that are like past 50 — I’m thinking to myself, ‘I don’t think that’s an issue for you.'”

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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

which is a natural bodily function that happens sometimes

Its much more common for women trying to have children than most understand it to be.

"Among 53,479 different women admitted to labor and delivery ward, 43% of women reported having had 1 or more first trimester spontaneous miscarriages" source

So 43%, nearly half of women, that eventually bring a pregnancy to term have experienced at least one just in the first trimester.

Notice that this risk of being jailed only applies to women.

[–] OccamsRazer@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How big is the risk of being jailed? Of all the women having miscarriages every single day, how many are being jailed? And for how many of those is there other circumstances? Do you think the end goal is to jail half of women? Seriously...

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do you think the end goal is to jail half of women? Seriously…

Of course not. The goal appears to be to subjugate women and remove their autonomy. Because only women can be charged with crimes on how they use their reproductive organs in choosing to carry a fetus to term or not, it presents a perfect way to insulate men from any responsibility or consequences of sex.

I don't believe Conservatives want to punish women legitimately trying to give birth to children, but instead to discourage any woman from attempting to end a pregnancy, they have to have the option to punish any end of pregnancy that doesn't include delivering a live child. That means that miscarriages (of which they are shockingly common just because of biology) will be used for selective enforcement if they suspect the mother tried to end the pregnancy.

[–] OccamsRazer@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Yeah I suppose it opens the door for investigations in case of miscarriage since some of the methods for abortion can be hard to tell apart from natural miscarriage. And yeah it could be abused or selectively enforced, and that's the danger of any laws. We are always walking that line.