It’s harder to answer when it’s not a hypothetical… watch him reflexively retreat to the party’s official talking points.
It’s thoughtful questions like this that might actually stand a chance of getting traction with the deeply-indoctrinated. Because they touch on the big questions about human worth in a way that isn’t abstract and hypothetical.
He asked about his OWN life and his OWN value… one day before he was born.
And Robert ‘Beto’ O’Rourke struggled to answer it because he was looking directly at the person whose life he was about to write off as ‘abortable’ one day before birth… as per Democrat policy.
He tried to have it both ways, but it just didn’t work.
Pro-life question from young man @BetoORourke at @CofC tonight: I was born Sep. 8, did my life have no value Sep. 7? Beto: “That’s a decision that neither you, nor I, nor the US government should be making. That’s a decision for the woman to make.” Massive cheers. pic.twitter.com/IShgwMhBpC
— Joel Pollak (@joelpollak) August 27, 2019
Man: I was born Sep. 8, did my life have no value Sep. 7?
Beto O'Rourke: “Of course I don't think that … but … this a decision that neither you, nor I, nor the United States government should be making. That’s a decision for the woman to make” pic.twitter.com/DhmvzcqfRN
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) August 27, 2019
His Roe v. Wade rant may have convinced the die-hard abortion zealots, but the in-betweens who are looking for something more than talking points may not have been so very convinced by his boilerplate answer.
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