Accountability
Swalwell releases controversial political ad showing a mom being arrested gunpoint for abortion
California Representative Eric Swalwell (D) released a new political ad this week ahead of next month’s midterms that depicts a woman being arrested at gunpoint in front of her crying children for having an abortion.
The ad shows a family having dinner when they are interrupted by red and blue police lights outside their window, and a knock on the door.
The police in the ad tell the woman she is under arrest for violating a state abortion law, and the shocked woman and her husband frantically attempt to argue with the officers, who say they are just doing their job to enforce the law. The couple’s small child and baby cry in the background.
A narrator then says, “Elections have consequences. Vote Democrat on November 8th. Stop Republicans from criminalizing abortion everywhere. Protect women’s rights and freedom.”
Swalwell argued that this may become the reality for many women in the United States if Republicans take over Congress in the midterm elections as access to abortion becomes increasingly restricted across the country.
“I wish this was an exaggeration, but this is going to be the new reality in MAGA America if we do not win the midterms in both the house and Senate,” Swalwell said to MSNBC’s Joy Reid this week.
There are currently no state laws on the books that would arrest a woman simply for having an abortion. The closest thing to it comes from Republican-led states who are pushing forward laws that would punish medical professionals who conduct abortion procedures.
Swalwell’s ad aims to remind voters the possibility of abortion arrests may become real if Democrats do not maintain control of both houses of Congress in the upcoming election.
Swalwell defended the ad, saying, “As a former prosecutor, when I looked at the Republicans’ abortion laws, criminalizing abortion, mandating pregnancy, I thought through what is this going to look like as it plays out across America. And it’s that scene right there.”
Terry A. Hurlbut has been a student of politics, philosophy, and science for more than 35 years. He is a graduate of Yale College and has served as a physician-level laboratory administrator in a 250-bed community hospital. He also is a serious student of the Bible, is conversant in its two primary original languages, and has followed the creation-science movement closely since 1993.
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Swalwell apparently has nothing else to run on so he is making up stuff to get an emotional reaction that interferes with people ability to make rational decisions. And consider, a federal law prohibiting abortion would be just as unconstitutional as the “Roe v Wade” was. Abortion, like most issues, are State issues.
The simple fact is that there are only two justifications for an abortion. The first is the baby has died. The second is an Ectopic pregnancy which will kill both the mother and father. The problem we have today is people don’t want to take responsibility for their behavior and attitudes.