MSNBC’s Joy Reid is back with another asinine comparison. On her show “The Reid Out,” Reid claimed that the state now owns pregnant women’s bodies, linking it to slavery.
She began her show by speaking about the Kansas election, saying that the state voted to keep abortion rights as an “F-U” to the pro-life movement. She stated:
“But on Tuesday, Kansas had its own message to send, delivering a stunning FU to the right’s shock and awe campaign against bodily autonomy. It was testament to desire for abortion rights in this country in one of America’s reddest states with even rubier red pockets, rural, conservative, MAGA, where voters resoundingly rejected a ballot measure that would have allowed lawmakers to ban abortion in the state.”
Elle continued:
“In much clearer terms the right to an abortion will remain in the Kansas constitution, a state constitution, by the way, that in its original form was built on opposition to slavery.”
Reid doubled back as she continued to analyze overturning Roe V. Wade to slaveryclaiminged that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said the state owns a pregnant woman’s body.
“I think it’s actually poetic that it happened in Kansas. It is the state that has wrestled over who owns its citizens. The state also wrestled over slavery. This question was about who is your owner, or who has control of your body. Alito said that the state is responsible for your health. When you are pregnant, your body becomes the property of your state. Your state has all rights to decide what you do with your body. Sorry, no luck. You don’t own yourself.”
Reid did explore religion, though she also tried to make a comparison between Christianity and Christians.
“The arrogance of him and the arrogance of basically thinking it’s funny and also trying to put forth this idea that this country is a land of religious persecution against Christians, that Christians are being persecuted simply because women have the right to decide what to do with our own bodies.”
Reid isn’t the only one to make a statement about Christianity.
Joy Reid said that conservative evangelical Christianity should be called “Talibanism”, because it was “scareful” to hear the American right believe “this sect is your sect. You will live according to our sect regardless of whether you choose or not.” pic.twitter.com/Kw9kTIbi85
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) September 4, 2021
The Catholics for Choice President, Jaime Manson, was a guest on her show, and agreed with Reid’s point of view of when she claimed Republicans want a “White Christian autocracy.” Manson claimed:
“They want abortion to remain legal but, you know, the struggle for a lot of religious is that abortion is not only supported, abortion access, but it’s required, especially particularly by Jews and Muslims, so it is an infringement on their religious freedom and what we see is an incredible overreach by a White Christian nationalist movement trying to take away basic rights claiming that they are the ones under siege, and that’s really where it’s painful. This is how they build power.”
As MSNBC continues its attack on Christianity and Christians, particularly on Joy Reid’s show, they don’t want their viewpoints to be challenged or questioned. This just shows that mainstream media won’t stop trying to display their religious bigotry and continue to make outrageous comparisons such as the Roe V. WadeSlavery comparisons, but not wanting to see anyone challenge their claims. Joy Reid is not alone in this.
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