Who will Harris pick as VP? It’s Walz!!

But you swung and missed, which was pointed out to you.

 

How does it traumatize them?

 

@l_boy is referring to therapeutic abortions. Do you have any non-anecdotal data on the frequency of 8+ month elective abortions?

 

So you agree it's not a big deal. Welcome to the club!

 

When it comes to biting rhetoric, KH & MW have a ton of catching up to do.

 

Someone seems to be conflating elective abortions with medically necessary abortions and no abortions are performed in the eighth or ninth month if the fetus is viable. There is a procedure for removing a viable fetus from a woman's uterus in the eighth or ninth month of pregnancy. It's called a c-section.

 

I do agree that he plays this card too much. There's quite a few things I don't like about him and his early campaigning, but these programs are doing wonders and are not wasting money.

Maine was (I believe) the first state to implement free school lunches (and breakfasts!). With a large rural population, something like 40% or some crazy high number of kids were eligible for free or reduced lunch. There are two issues that free lunches solve here: 1. They eliminate the significant costs associated with operating, managing, and tracking the free and reduced lunch programs, thus mitigating a large portion of the costs born of full free lunches 2. The stigma of recieving free / reduced lunch is gone - so kids that need the food are actually fed. And there is incredibly high correlation between educational outcomes and hunger.

 

It doesn’t. This is literally a nothing burger by the right wing per usual. Oh no, tampons in the bathrooms, the horror. Where are the policy’s that will improve mine and everyone else’s lives from the right? You know, things like free lunches for all school kids? Like who gives a shit?

 

That wasnt the point of my question at all. I'm asking this poster if they think zero limits should exist.

And you have zero proof that that is the only way it happens.

A severely undeveloped baby, where viability questions exist, would be known well before the moment of delivery in most cases.

I agree it is extremely rare and most women simply would not want to carry to term if their plan was to abort.

But there has to be some limit. Good lord

 

I asked chatgpt about this and in 2021, there were ZERO recorded abortions performed in Minnesota after 32 weeks. None. Late term abortions are a GOP boogeyman.

 

Well, it's obviously disgusting. They don't even have guns!

 

My wife just told me that when she first saw Walz was announced that she thought, OK this is gonna be a good guy. Then she heard him on TV this morning and thought, oh my goodness, more the same.

 

I’d say a stand-up double.

 

There are millions of retirees who don't need Medicare or Social Security. Yet, it is a good thing they have them. And it's good that children don't have to worry about whether they'll be able to afford lunch at school. Feeding kids is good. But hey, I welcome y'all campaigning on the "wastefulness" of feeding children.

 

Weird. All of them.

 

Which is why she'll vote for the felon rapist instead.

 

Might wanna cover up. Your class is showing.

 

The only reason a child goes hungry is if the parents aren’t worth a crap. In addition to SNAP benefits, free or reduced school meals have always been available for low income families. There are also many other options (food pantries, soup kitchens, etc) that often aren’t utilized enough.

Again, free breakfast and lunch to kids from low income families has been provided for years and should always continue to be made available. But providing year-round meal to all kids, regardless of financial need, is a major waste of billions of dollars a year.

 

If that wasn't the point of your question, then you didn't think through your question.

The limits to abortion should be determined by the pregnant mothers in consult with their medical doctor. Full stop. Extending the timeframe for legality is not so that a women can just yeet a healthy full-term fetus. I would all but guarantee it's to help ensure some level of medical coverage for the procedures. A woman having to make that gut-wrenching decision shouldn't also have to deal with the hell of our healthcare and insurance system and wind up paying 10s of thousands of dollars in medical bills after dealing with such a tragedy.

Good lord indeed, if you actually think women will be out there aborting healthy, viable, full term babies simply because they can. Or that doctors would just say, "well your 38-weeker is perfectly healthy, but abortion at this stage is now legal, so I'll just go ahead and kill it right before you go through either a caesarian or a full labor and birthing experience for your now dead baby." That's just absolutely, patently absurd.

 

As a MN resident, I've heard Walz speak a good bit. This was a convention speech, where the rhetoric is ramped up. It's also a matter of going into campaign attack mode. Beside, I think the couch quip was about the only controversial thing he said.