Education Secretary Betsy Devos claimed Wednesday that the fight against abortion is like Abraham Lincoln’s fight against slavery
and, as the American Psychiatric Association might put it, batshit insane. On Wednesday, she apparently decided it was the latter that needed amplifying.that the battle against abortion waged by pro-lifers like herself has a lot of similarities to…the fight by Abraham Lincoln to abolish slavery?
“[Former President Abraham Lincoln] too contended with the pro-choice arguments of his day,” DeVos explained to the crowd at the Museum of the Bible. “They suggested that a state’s choice to be slave or to be free had no moral question in it. Well, President Lincoln reminded those pro-choicers that 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.
Keeping up with the bad abortion analogies, DeVos went on to call out the “irony” of people supporting a woman’s right to choose but not supporting mothers who want to enroll their children in, for example, for-profit colleges like the ones from which her family . “There are many in the pro-life movement who heroically work to make abortion unconstitutional,” DeVos said. “Tonight, let’s talk about making it unthinkable.”
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