{"id":40910,"date":"2020-01-24T15:43:16","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T15:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40910"},"modified":"2020-01-24T15:45:53","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T15:45:53","slug":"pro-choice-does-not-equal-pro-slavery-mme-education-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40910","title":{"rendered":"‘Pro-choice’ does not equal ‘pro-slavery,’ Mme. Education Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Get an ever-lovin’ grip, U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos!<\/p>\n

The education boss who was confirmed by a tie-breaking vote in the U.S. Senate in 2017, has equated being “pro-choice” on abortion to being in favor of owning slaves.<\/p>\n

To which I say \u2026 What the f***?<\/em><\/p>\n

She spoke at a Washington, D.C. event for Colorado Christian University and made the absurd comparison, that a woman’s decision to terminate a pregnancy is akin to decide to put human beings in bondage.<\/p>\n

This is one of the more apples-and-oranges comparisons I’ve seen in a good while.<\/p>\n

You see, slave owners’ health was not an issue when they decided to purchase human beings and enslave them. A woman who decides she can no longer carry an unborn baby to full term quite often faces potentially mortal health issues. Yes, I get that some women make that decision for many more cavalier reasons than that. However, to equate these two matters — slave ownership and abortion — is irresponsible in the extreme.<\/p>\n

The Hill reported:<\/a> “(Lincoln) too contended with the pro-choice arguments of his day. They suggested that a state’s choice to be slave or to be free had no moral question in it,” DeVos said, the outlet reported. “Well, President Lincoln reminded those pro-choices (there) is a vast portion of the American people that do not look upon that matter as being this very little thing. They look upon it as a vast moral evil.”<\/em><\/p>\n

I’m trying to wrap my head around her alleged logic. I can’t quite get there.<\/p>\n

I’ll just have to conclude that she is equating one issue with another utterly unrelated one. I think Secretary DeVos is reaching way beyond her grasp.<\/p>\n\n

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Get an ever-lovin’ grip, U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos! The education boss who was confirmed by a tie-breaking vote in the U.S. Senate in 2017, has equated being “pro-choice” on abortion to being in favor of owning slaves. To which I say \u2026 What the f***? She spoke at a Washington, D.C. event for Colorado … Continue reading ‘Pro-choice’ does not equal ‘pro-slavery,’ Mme. Education Secretary<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6251],"tags":[122,6864,9185,4286],"class_list":["post-40910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-news","tag-abortion","tag-betsy-devos","tag-education-secretary","tag-slavery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40910"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40914,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40910\/revisions\/40914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}