Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s makes an attempt to curtail abortion rights in his state has made him the goal of a scathing new political advert.
The advert, launched Monday by Moms Towards Greg Abbott PAC, exhibits a physician explaining to an expectant couple that their new baby can be born with a “catastrophic mind abnormality” and can solely be capable to survive just a few hours after delivery.
“If she is to outlive, she is going to reside solely a matter of hours after delivery. Throughout that point, she is going to expertise a large number of seizures and in the end aspirate on her personal bodily fluids. She is going to endure,” the physician explains. “A choice will should be made on termination. I want I might let you know what to do.”
The crying mom then begins to contemplate the obtainable choices solely to have the physician inform her that “right here is just one one that could make this selection, and that individual is Greg.”
The daddy wonders, understandably, “who the f**ok is Greg?”
The physician then opens a locker with the face of the Republican governor and grabs a purple telephone and locations a name.
After a short dialog, the physician hangs up the telephone and tells the mother and father, “Yeah, that’s gonna be a no. Better of luck to you.”
You'll be able to see the advert under.
The group’s web site explains that it opposes Abbott as a result of he and the Texas Republican Get together “have neighbors turning in opposition to neighbors by placing a bounty on those that search well being care selections that they don’t agree with. They're taking our private freedom over our personal our bodies!”
In Could 2021, Abbott signed a bit of anti-abortion laws that banned the process at six weeks, which is earlier than many sufferers even know they’re pregnant.
Final September, he dismissed issues that the regulation doesn’t permit exceptions for pregnancies ensuing from rape or incest, and he claimed it didn’t matter as a result of he promised he would get all rapists off the streets of Texas.
The regulation features a mechanism that skirts authorized challenges by having personal residents and never the state implement the ban by means of civil fits. It additionally presents a $10,000 incentive to people who efficiently sue an individual for aiding and abetting somebody looking for an abortion.
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