Networks are eager to promote the notion that support for abortion rights is driving a Democratic return in the midterms. What they aren’t telling you about is just how radical many of the Democratic Senate candidates are. Tim Ryan, for example in Ohio, supports abortion right up until the day it is born. And yet this hasn’t been a story on the network newscasts. Only twice has his name been mentioned in August.
But, paradoxically, CNN and its anchor Dana Bash were responsible for journalism. They interviewed the Democrat Sunday. Interviewing the candidate State of the Union, she demanded, “You’re criticizing your Republican opponent for not supporting abortion exceptions. Your position? Which restrictions do you think should be placed on abortion, if any?”
Ryan dodged and said that it was the doctors who should make this decision, rather than his GOP opponent J.D. Vance, Bash actually followed up, noting, “Well, but, as a legislator, you have to have some idea of what you want to do when you’re not a doctor. So should there be some restrictions when it comes to the law of the land?”
Again, Ryan refused to name a single restriction he’d support up to birth: “We can’t account for every single scenario.” And again, Bash amazingly demanded an answer: “So, that means — it sounds like you’re saying no restrictions.” Ryan responded by staring into the camera for several seconds before responding.” Clearly, he wasn’t used to being pressed by journalists from the right.
The networks ignore the radical views of Tim Ryan, however. And this position isn’t new for the Democrat. Back in May, Fox’s Bret Baier seemed shocked that the Democrat supported no limits: “My question was about any limits to abortion at any point. Do you think it is late term? Anything?”
Journalists are responsible for covering both sides of the abortion debate. Republicans who support most restrictions or none are extreme. They also oppose all restrictions.
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State of the Union
8/28/2022
9:21DANA BASH: I want to ask about an issue that has become central in this year’s midterm races, and that is abortion. You’re criticizing your Republican opponent for not supporting abortion exceptions. Your position? Which restrictions do you think should be placed on abortion, if any?
RYAN. Ultimately, it should be a choice between the woman’s doctor and herself. And, of course, we don’t support abortion at the end of term, unless, of course, there is an extraordinary circumstance, where you’re eight months into a pregnancy and something very tragic is happening in that pregnancy, where you have a room, you have bought toys, you have clothing for the baby, everyone’s excited, and then something tragic happens.
BASH: Right.
RYAN – That should be done by the doctor, and not the J.D. Ted Cruz, Vance and anyone else. That’s a very serious situation.
BASH: Well, but, as a legislator, you have to have some idea of what you want to do when you’re not a doctor. There should be limitations on what the law says about the land.
RYAN: Well, you ultimately — I think the decider has to be the woman and her doctor. We can’t account for every single scenario. And, really, the extreme —
BASH: So, that means — it sounds like you’re saying no restrictions.
RYAN: Well, I think they’re — no one’s supporting abortion towards the end, absolutely. No one’s for that. It rarely happens. But what we’re saying is, are we going to preserve the woman’s right to choose at the end to save her own life? You’re kidding me. You mean like, is the government allowed to be there? This sounds anti-American. This is the exact same situation as where J.D. Vance, where, if you’re raped, you are forced to have the rapist’s baby, where there’s no exceptions at all.
People who are younger than 18 years old have to leave their home to visit other countries where they’ve been raped. That’s insanity. That’s the extremism we’re talking about right now. This is 50 years of the same established law. That’s what I’m for that seemed to work pretty well for the last 50 years. The extremists are again trying to reverse that.
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