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"This is your heartless/brainless Republican Party, folks. They’ll force a ten-year-old to give birth to her stepfather’s rape-baby, but they won’t do one single thing to keep children from getting shot to death in their schoolrooms."---------------------
In the grand tradition of piling on...
Josh Hawley is running an ad online for his re-election bid for US Senator in Missouri aimed at showing how he is out to protect the women of Missouri.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNzfSUzH2XoIt features Riley Gaines, a swimmer on the University of Kentucky's team who, at one point, competed against a trans-gender athlete who went on to win the larger meet and "take away" the medal from a woman who deserved to win it. Her ad itemizes all the horrible "gross" things the Democratic candidate is for (hint, he's not for those things) then she says "But Josh Hawley defends the rights of women."
Okay, stop right there.
Per the NCAA's own web site, as of March 2023, there were 226,212 women playing collegiate sports. It is probably impossible to get exact statistics at this point but I would imagine there are less than ten trans-gender, switching from male to female, athletes across the entire country in college sports. From a purely mathematical perspective, if one thinks that is some sort of injustice to the women competing in one of those matchups, that's a pretty low occurance rate of injustice. That's 10/226,212 or a 0.0000442 rate or 0.004 percent rate.
On the other hand, if Missouri women are typical of the entire country, 46.8 percent of them will opt to not have children, which means 53.2% of women will have at least one child in their lifetime. That means 53.2 percent of Missouri women currently face DRASTICALLY higher risks during pregnancy due to the draconian abortion ban that has instilled fear into ob/gyns for providing appropriate care even for wanted pregnacies that encounter complications. These are risks to their LIFE, not a mere frustration over not getting to nationals or getting a chance at being a pro swimmer after college. (
<---- subtle sarcasm there)
What is Josh Hawley doing for those women? Nothing. He supports Missouri's abortion ban. His wife Erin Hawley is one of the leading attorneys in the country not only fighting abortion but now fighting to ban abortion drugs like mifepristone nationwide.
"But Josh Hawley defends the rights of women."WTH
