April 28, 2019: Trump Offers Up Lies at His Wisconsin Rally, and Fans Love It

 

4/28/19: Trump attends a rally in Wisconsin. We all know what that means. Lies and plenty of them, and loud cheering by fans who never check the veracity of what their orange idol says. 

According to Trump, now that the Democratic governor is going to veto a Republican bill requiring healthcare professionals to provide treatment for babies born alive after failed abortions, in Wisconsin the following will be allowed. “The baby is born,” he insists. “The mother meets with the doctor. They take care of the baby. They wrap the baby beautifully, and then the doctor and the mother determine whether or not they will execute the baby. I don’t think so.” 

Trump loves attending rallies more than he likes studying policy.

 

Catastrophic birth defects: children born without brains. 

Governor Tony Evers doesn’t think so, either. Neither does anyone else who isn’t totally uniformed. 

As the Milwaukee Sentinel-Journal reports, 

Evers said he will not sign the bill because of existing protections and criminal penalties in state law.

 

“I think those protections already exist,” Evers said in an interview Monday. “We have all sorts of issues to deal with in the state of Wisconsin and to pass a bill that is redundant seems to be not a productive use of time. And clearly I ran on the belief — and I still believe — that women should be able to make choices about their health care. But this deals with a specific issue that’s already been resolved.”

 

You might say this is GOP grandstanding, because it is. Late-term abortions are extremely rare (roughly 1 in every 100 abortions occurs after 21 weeks). Even more rarely do late-term abortions fail. Such procedures almost always involve efforts to save the mother’s life or catastrophic birth defects, like anencephaly. That is, children born without brains. According to the National Institute of Health, 60 percent of children so born do not survive for 24 hours. 

Only 2 in every hundred, if I read the NIH statement correctly (5% of the “40%” who live past one day) survive a week. 

It would seem, then, that Republicans might have better ways to use their time than to interfere in medical and family decisions of the most complex, emotional kinds.

 

They could be going after the crooks who jack up drug costs to obscene levels. That might be nice.