Soulless Joy, Sidekick Mystal Become Unglued Over SCOTUS Abortion Case

Wednesday’s ReidOut was a episode to behold as MSNBC host Joy Reid was beside herself over the Supreme Court’s oral arguments about Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban, calling it a warning for all “166 million women living in America” The Court might “reduce you to a secondary constitutional citizen”You can force them to “leave the babies on the doorstep of the firehouse” by refusing to treat pregnancy as seemingly just shy of a nuisance on society.

Things got worse when The NationElie Mystal is a frequent MSNBC guest and correspondent. He ghoulishly claims to be the author. “a fetus is not deserving of full personhood rights” because doing so “diminish[es] the rights of women”Yet, they hilariously and inadvertently made precise summaries of pro-life arguments. They also painted them in terms that are completely normal.

Reid wasn’t glued to the ground from the beginning:

[I]If you’re one of America’s 166,000,000 women, then it seems that the majority conservatives on the Supreme Court are willing to lower you to secondary citizen status by declaring that you have no control over your own person or your bodily functions. 

Reid’s devotion to race and abortion is also shown in her refusal to acknowledge human life in the simplest form. This applies regardless of whether or not it concerns unborn children, as well as Americans who had been denied all of America’s blessings.

The argument by the Mississippi solicitor-general that the court should not be reformed was far more troubling and offensive. Roe v. WadeBecause the court has previously overturned it, a law was passed that protects women’s rights. Plessy v. FergusonThis law, which prohibited African-Americans from participating in regular civic life and was not subject to segregation until 1954, when it was repealed by the landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education.

Mystal soon cropped up and, again, while arguing unborn children don’t deserve rights because it would mean women would be deprived of them, he suffered an incredible self-own (click “expand”):

Conservatives want you to think that a fetus — a fetus who is pre-viability, it means it cannot exist outside of its mother, it cannot live outside of — of the womb, has the same — should have the same legal rights as full-grown Black people in this country and that the fact that it doesn’t is some kind of miscarriage of justice — no pun intended — and that the people who shouldn’t have the full rights are the women who are carrying the fetus. Because I have shown that a foetus does not deserve full personhood rights, it is possible to prove this. They would argue that the fetus ought to be granted citizenship and that they should also be entitled to other rights such as education or health care. They would be arguing that I should be able to claim fetuses as dependents on my taxes, which you will note they’re not. 

The rights of the fetus are what they care about, but that can also be used to reduce the rights of women. This is exactly why the Supreme Court conservatives were so passionate about…[T]Susan Collins looks as idiotic as any other person in the Senate today. Susan stood there and assured us that Brett Kavanaugh was going respect precedent. Roe v. WadeIt was established law. 

Mystal saw giving unborn baby rights as something bad, but many others see it that way. pointed out in reacting toThis segment shows that pro-lifers are not content with the absurd claims of right to babies at the expense women.

What was less amusing was Mystal’s second bender as he tried to argue babies can’t be given “rights” because a women’s right to an abortion is an “inalienable” right (click “expand”):

Brett Kavanaugh is bringing the weakest arguments to this debate as per usual. His argument for neutrality seems absurd on the surface. You can’t be neutral about rights, either women have rights to their own bodies or you don’t. There’s not a neutral position in there. It is up to you to determine if they have rights. We have already talked about how the whole system involves giving a right of birth to a foetus. I am able to prove this legally. But then you point out the other — the other important point, that — that — that the whole point of a right — I’m sure I heard it somewhere called inalienable, right? It is impossible to take away a state legislature’s right on an ad-hoc basis. 

Mississippi should not decide whether I can vote, walk, breathe, marry or control my body. That’s not — that’s against the definition of a right. But there’s a third thing that Kavanaugh is doing and it’s very important, I think, cause it also goes to his whole personality from where I sit. Kavanaugh is trying to transfer responsibility from the Supreme Court toward the states.

Turning to Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Reid said she had to tell her “as a fellow black women, as a sister” that “it made me feel some kind of way”You can hear “two men, Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh, who were credibly accused of violating the sanctity of woman, you know, both got away with it….stand up and sort of soberly argue whether or not women are owned by the state.”

It’s amazing how false that is (in). 1991Or 2018However, she was able to craft a compelling narrative.

Reid began her B-block filled with even more hyperventilation: 

Mississippi’s defense of their 15-week abortion law makes a case that’s truly bizarre, arguing that things are different than they were back in the ‘70s, that: “Today, adoption is acceptable and on a wide scale women attain both professional success and a rich family life.” So, why can’t we just force poor women and rape victims to bring fetuses to term? Can they not leave the babies at the firehouse so that they can return to their office?

We could go on and on about this. “pregnancy can actually be dangerous to a woman’s health, especially when you live in a country like the United States,”Again, she envisioned a future when new moms would flock to firehouses for a chance to abandon their baby.

To say it’s fine, make them carry the baby to term, they can leave it at the firehouse when they’re done is so dismissive of everything that pregnancy is about, that it was shocking to me.

Reid added a cartoonish note to the resume. “this movement shouldn’t be called pro-life” As “[i]t should be called get them born and then it’s your problem.”

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You can view the MSNBC transcript of December 1 here.