Sean Hannity’s Gaslighting Submit-Election Abortion Declare Does not Idiot Onlookers

Within the face of resounding victories for abortion rights in Tuesday’s elections, Sean Hannity rapidly began rewriting details for Fox Information viewers.

“Democrats try to scare girls into considering Republicans don’t need abortion authorized beneath any circumstances,” the host stated Tuesday evening.

As many commenters identified on social media, the principle motive for that notion might be as a result of it’s true in lots of instances.

Because the majority-conservative Supreme Court docket overturned Roe v. Wade final 12 months, ending federal protections for abortion, Republicans in practically two dozen states have moved to ban or closely prohibit entry to abortions.

Former President Donald Trump, the main contender for the Republican presidential nomination, had pledged in 2016 to nominate justices to the courtroom that may overturn the landmark abortion case. He did.

In Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia, abortion is now banned in nearly all circumstances.

In Georgia and South Carolina, abortion is banned after six weeks of being pregnant. Different states have bans after 12, 15 or 18 weeks.

Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.), who Republicans simply unanimously elected Home speaker, has a protracted anti-abortion file, and co-sponsored a invoice in 2021 that may have nationally prohibited abortion previous about six weeks of being pregnant, when many ladies don’t even know they’re pregnant but.

Hannity stated he considers himself “pro-life,” however acquiesced “that’s not the place the nation is,” and insisted that, based mostly on his current interview with Johnson, the difficulty could be left as much as the states.

Fox Information contributor Charlie Damage adopted up Hannity’s remarks with a deluge of misinformation, misleadingly claiming that Democrats assist abortion as much as the purpose of delivery and “probably past.” That is a frequent misrepresentation made by Republicans about abortions within the later phases of being pregnant, that are exceptionally uncommon and often happen attributable to medical causes or fetal anomalies.

Hannity’s comment bought a swift fact-check from commentators on-line, together with former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), who identified the legislation in her state:

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