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John McCormack
@McCormackJohn
Senior Editor @TheDispatch
Sep 19 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Georgia's abortion law only takes effect when there's a heartbeat, so the law was not even relevant here.

See the text of the law vs. ProPublica's elisions that try to make what would be a *totally unreasonable* fear of the law seem reasonable. 1/

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Image To be clear, it would be egregious malpractice for a hospital to delay treatment in a life-threatening circumstance even if there were a fetal heartbeat.

Contrary to ProPublica's dangerously false claim, no abortion law in the country requires waiting until a woman is on the "brink of death" to provide treatment in any life-threatening case.

When a life-threatening condition arises, abortion laws allow immediate treatment. 2/Image
Jun 13 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
The office of Colorado abortionist Warren Hern was recorded saying he would perform an abortion at 32 weeks—start of the 8th month—for a healthy mother with a healthy baby.

The earliest preemie to survive his stay in a NICU was born at 21 weeks, and the authors of a 2013 study on late abortions reported that “data suggest that most” abortions performed between weeks 20 and 28 of pregnancy are not performed for “reasons of fetal anomaly or life endangerment.”

nationalreview.com/2023/05/the-ke…Image
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Image Biden administration’s solicitor general: “There can be complications that
happen after viability, but there, the standard of care is to deliver the baby if you need the
pregnancy to end because it's causing these severe health consequences for the mom.”


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Dec 13, 2023 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
It is false and dangerous to claim that the Texas supreme court denied a "life-saving abortion."

Trisomy 18 threatens an unborn child’s life, but the Center for Reproductive Rights lawsuit did not identify any condition that threatened Kate Cox’s life.
thedispatch.com/article/a-clos…
Image It is also false to claim that trisomy 18 is *always* fatal for the baby. Bella Santorum was born with trisomy 18; she’s now 15 years old. Image
Apr 14, 2023 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
Kemp, after signing 6-week limit, won by 8 points in a state Trump lost.

Ohio gov DeWine signed a 6-week limit and won by 25 points in a state Trump carried by 8 points.

Same story with Iowa gov Kim Reynolds, who won by 19 in a state Trump won by 8.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court election has big implications for state law, but electoral implications are overstated by many:

nationalreview.com/2023/04/the-cr… 2/ Image
Apr 13, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
5th Circuit: “it appears that the statute of limitations bars plaintiffs’ challenges to the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone in 2000.”

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco… Image apnews.com/article/texas-… Image
Nov 15, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
🤔 ImageImage DCA “is experiencing gate hold and taxi delays lasting 15 minutes or less.” Image
Nov 14, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Vance’s article conveniently skips over the question of whether a Republican can run in a primary as a snarling Bannonite who praises MTG without alienating some voters in the general election. According to Vance, the main thing holding back GOP candidates was money.

But any normal Republican would have won in Georgia.

Only state where money might have made the difference was Nevada.
Nov 14, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Puzzles for election truthers: Explain how the vote was rigged for Tony Evers but not Mandela Barnes in Wisconsin.

Explain how the vote was rigged against Masters but not Schweikert in Arizona. Schweikert is a member of the Freedom Caucus.

(I know you’re being sarcastic)
Nov 13, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
If people (foolishly but) honestly believe Masters was an extra $10 million in campaign cash away from victory, wouldn’t they be just as angry with Thiel as they are with McConnell? But, again, the whole premise that more ad spending could have swung this race several points toward Masters is pretty absurd.

Argument would be reasonable if Kelly’s margin of victory were less than a point. We’ll see where it ends up.
Nov 12, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Notable that while Trump pushes baseless claims of a stolen election, Masters and Laxalt have issued responsible statements: It’s a real problem, and the politicians who refuse to reform laws in AZ/CA should be ashamed. These slow counts aren’t good for trust in democracy.

But that’s no reason to falsely claim the elections are being stolen.
Nov 12, 2022 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
“Debating weeks is not where we want to be,” said Celinda Lake, the longtime Democratic pollster. nytimes.com/2022/11/10/us/…

Governors Mike DeWine of Ohio, Brian Kemp of Georgia, & Kim Reynolds of Iowa signed 6-week heartbeat bills.

Election results:
Kemp+9
Reynolds+19
DeWine+26 ImageImage GOP Senate candidates Marco Rubio of Florida and Ted Budd of North Carolina were cosponsors of the federal 15-week limit.

Rubio won by 16 points; Budd won by 4 points.
Nov 11, 2022 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
Huh, I wonder why Tucker Carlson is downplaying how much the poor quality of GOP candidates mattered. Image
Nov 8, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Biden's election day job-approval rating: 41.4% projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-approval… When you look at Biden’s job-approval rating, it’s remarkable how quickly it flipped from positive to negative after the Afghanistan withdrawal, and how steady it has been since then.

nationalreview.com/2022/11/bidens…

Nov 7, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
"If passed, Proposal 3 would effectively enshrine a right to abortion on demand up to birth" and "remove parental-consent requirements for minors seeking ... abortion, contraception, and sterilization," @madeleinekearns reports

nationalreview.com/2022/10/michig…

"Under Prop 3, gender-confused minors could be subjected to puberty blockers, cross-sex drugs, and surgeries without parental consent or even notice." nationalreview.com/2022/10/michig… Image
Nov 1, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
It’s interesting that the very first thing Hassan tries to distance herself from is the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Doesn’t get much attention on Twitter anymore, but it left an indelible mark on Biden with voters. On August 15, 2021, the day that Kabul fell, Biden was polling at 50% approve/43.8% disapprove.

Those numbers quickly flipped and are now about where they were in the fall of 2021.
Oct 31, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The conspiracy theorists will continue to wonder why DePape, who believed an invisible fairy was out to get him, didn’t act rationally during the break-in: I understand there are many bad actors out there, but the false report of an unnamed third person who opened the door—something implied in the @politico article and explicitly reported on Meet the Press—did a lot to fuel the conspiracy theories:
Oct 29, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
This detail in the @politico write-up is getting attention, but the police did not indicate there was some third unknown person in the home. politico.com/news/2022/10/2…

1/ Image SFPD: “When the officers arrived & knocked on the front door of the residence this morning, the door was opened by someone inside. And the officers observed through the open door Mr. Pelosi and the suspect, Mr. Depape, inside the entryway of the home.” facebook.com/SFPD/videos/33… 2/
Sep 21, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Bipartisan group of senators worked for months and had an ECA reform bill ready since July 20, and Schumer hasn’t allowed a vote.

House ECA bill was introduced at noon on Monday and voted on today.

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nationalreview.com/corner/romney-… Mitt Romney calls the House bill a “messaging bill”—a “party-line vote in the House that makes it more difficult to actually do something on a bipartisan basis.”

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May 5, 2022 • 11 tweets • 6 min read
Four key parts of the abortion bill Schumer will bring up for a vote next week: nationalreview.com/2022/05/schume…

1. How it creates a right to abortion through 9 months of pregnancy in all 50 states: 2. It would strike down almost all state laws on abortion, including parental-consent laws supported by 70% of Americans:
Mar 12, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Tucker’s Russia expert is a high-school dropout from California who said in 2016 (at age 26): “I have multiple exes who are Russian and I came to Moscow in March [2015] to visit a girl.”

buzzfeednews.com/article/hayesb… “Ehrlich also lists himself as the founder of several companies on LinkedIn, including the Willpower Supplements Corporation, which claims to be a distributor of the ‘world’s first willpower pill.’” buzzfeednews.com/article/hayesb…
Feb 22, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The words “crazy” and “evil” are not synonyms, fyi.

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/… ImageImage When a mob boss kills for reasons of personal ego and/or family pride—not merely for a short-term financial gain—we don't say the mob boss was "not a rational actor."