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Questions for Kamala
If any journalist ever gets the opportunity to ask questions of our current Vice President and Democratic Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris, I offer the following suggestions:
- Since you and your party strongly favor easy access to abortion as a fundamental healthcare right, have you ever had an abortion?
- If so, would you say that you credit your professional success to your ability to have an abortion?
- If you were so fortunate not to find yourself in need of an abortion as an unmarried career woman—until you married at age 49—would you please share your secret to avoiding an unwanted pregnancy with American voters, particularly younger women (or “people with child-bearing capacity,” if we want to be inclusive)?
- If you are offended by these questions, why should a prominent female politician be uncomfortable when asked how a significant policy preference (easy abortion access) has influenced her own life?
- Is it because the actual act of abortion is inherently gruesome and disreputable when it’s personalized, and not merely an abstract idea euphemistically described as “reproductive rights”?
Given the popularity of free abortions and vasectomies at the Democratic National Convention, these questions should be right at the top of voters’ and journalists’ minds. Or maybe it’s just me. Either way, some people are wondering whether abortion has been an integral part of Kamala Harris’ story of political success.
Feel free to add your own questions for Kamala in the comments.
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I fear the answer to this one would violate the Code of Conduct.
I’d pay to have someone ask those questions. Anyone f0r passing the hat to bribe someone to do so? Or maybe we start a Go Fund Me.
If you consider abortion to be important to women’s professional success, do you distinguish that from child sacrifice practiced by Aztecs, various ancient tribes in the Middle East and various other groups in ancient history? If so, how?
There were eight cases in Minnesota during your running mate’s administration where babies who survived an abortion and were delivered alive were left to die on the table. Is there a time limit of some kind for this? Would you support a doctor killing an inconvenient one year old child if the mother wished it? If not, why not? What is the difference?
Wow. Great question. Democrats these days seem to be, or at least aspire to be, the death party.
Why is it important to abort babies?
Abortion aside, are we sure we should be discouraging leftist men from getting vasectomies?
Maybe the question for Kamala is whether the DNC and its partners are trying to save her future administration from the costs of her proposed $6000 tax credit for infants. Fewer infants, fewer tax credits?
So now they’re “Deficit Hawks!” (Again?)
Also, why are the pro-Democrat, pro-Kamala, pro-“choice” online ads and posts always highlighting the plight of married blonde women who really wanted another child, but who sadly face serious health complications for themselves from carrying a doomed baby to full-term? Alternately, these ads and posts pretend that most abortion procedures are related to ectopic pregnancies. What percentage of abortions actually result from these circumstances?
How many women who get abortions would have preferred to continue their pregnancies to full-term, but felt pressured to kill their own babies by the father of the child, by friends, or by their own families because the conventional wisdom is that unplanned babies need not be born? How do feminists reconcile this brutal treatment of women and their natural creative capacity with the so-called “fight for women’s rights”?
People need to see more movies. Such as 1970’s “Airport.”
Couldn’t find a video clip…
I’m not sure what you mean by “journalist”. If it’s the self identifying kind, they will take that opportunity to ask things like; What’s your favorite color?
She’d probably say “blue” and then cackle uncontrollably.
This is a pretty brilliant post! The questions are honest and go right to the core.
I would ask her the cost of a college education has exceeded the rate of inflation for decades. What do you think the driver of this cost is? Are the Universities “price-gouging”?
It’s pronounced “gauging”…sheesh.
And why do they suppose letting men completely off the hook for any responsibility for women and the children they conceive is a good thing for women, children, or for that matter, men themselves?
If it’s all about the women for them, then they don’t care about men getting off the hook TOO.
Maybe this is the right time to add questions for the “Second Gentleman” Doug Emhoff? Did he get the nanny pregnant, and if so, what happened to the baby? Again, if all their answers are “no,” then they should have no trouble answering.
Except feminism isn’t really about women and our female nature. It’s a denial of female nature in attempt to make women. . . more like men.
There’s a spectrum of female nature (I have more masculine traits than many women, which was what made engineering appealing to me), but generally women want to be cherished and protected by men and to nurture a family. Feminists deny this in favor of the aggressive, competitive, career-orientated nature of men. Which is why lefty women are generally the most miserable, unsatisfied women you’ll meet.
Of course I know that, but it’s not the point I was making. If those women don’t want to be “burdened” by having a baby, it doesn’t matter to them if they’re un-burdening the men too. Even if she was able to get court-ordered child support etc, she would still be more “burdened” than him. And even if she was going to give up the baby to the man, and not deal with support etc, she would still be more “burdened,” in her own eyes anyway, by having to carry it and give birth. “Against her will.”
Yes. You get it. I was hoping you’d chime into this post. In my quick review, I think you might be the only woman to comment. I am really giving some thought to why women aren’t weighing in. Is it just that the Ricochet audience is mostly men, or have I annoyed the ladies? I know this post is a bit too confrontational, which is not my nature, but I am so tired of the way that we discuss and debate abortion in this country.