Believing Donald Trump Supports Reproductive Rights
Elon Musk Was Behind Effort To Gaslight Americans Into Believing Donald Trump Supports Reproductive Rights,
In the waning days of the 2024 presidential election, a curious political action committee, named after the late Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, ran ads in support of Donald Trump. It, bizarrely, claimed RBG and Trump were of “one mind” on abortion rights.
Of course, that’s far from accurate. The PAC misconstrued Trump’s position on reproductive freedom, twisting the Trump assertion that he didn’t support a “federal abortion ban,” and willfully ignoring the other words his campaign used to amount to the same thing. To say nothing of the Project 2025 plan to use the Comstock Act of 1973 to severely limit access to abortion care in this country.
The effort to conflate RBG and Trump’s records on reproductive rights was derided as “nothing short of appalling” by RBG’s granddaughter, Clara Spera. A sentiment shared by pretty much everyone horrified by the Supreme Court’s overturning the right to reproductive freedom, ushering in a new American era of increased infant deaths and a spike in maternal mortality rates.
The RBG PAC was created right at the FEC deadline for the election cycle, with $20 million in secret donations. But now we know who has the deep pockets behind the misleading message.
It’s Elon Musk, because of course it is.
The sum he spent on the RBG PAC was just a drop in the bucket of the total amount Musk spent to back Trump. All in, Musk threw down $250 million in support of Trump. No wonder he’s got a fancy new title in the Trump administration.
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Musk and RBG I’ll leave to people who know more about it. But the link to the increase in infant mortality is interesting. The message pretty much is that the data suggests that some children who otherwise would have been aborted died at an age that includes them in the infant mortality data. Unsaid seems to be that a good fraction of children not aborted don’t die early deaths. So the reality seems to be that none of the “extra” dead children would be alive under prior laws but that some living children likely would be dead. If you are born and then die, that counts; but if you are simply aborted, well you don’t count. Abortion is a mortality event. That’s the purpose of the procedure. Start counting them in the data.
@Eric,
All abortions, including those induced by mifepristone? How about spontaneous abortions? In humans, most conceptions don’t make it to term. Many women don’t even know that fertilization occurred. Do we only count the zygotes that implant? Who collects the data?
“Abortion is a mortality event.” In the sense that an appendectomy, gall bladder surgery or amputation is a “mortality event.” Should we count those, too?