{"id":4294,"date":"2013-06-28T16:10:17","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T21:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4294"},"modified":"2013-06-28T16:10:17","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T21:10:17","slug":"support-abortions-but-dont-have-them-you-must-be-a-hypocrite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4294","title":{"rendered":"Support abortions, but don&#8217;t have them? You must be a hypocrite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Perry tried the old <em>tu quoque<\/em> with the Texas state Senator and abortion rights defender Wendy Davis the other day.\u00c2\u00a0 (Reported here at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2013\/06\/27\/rick_perry_says_wendy_davis_hasn%E2%80%99t_learned_from_her_own_example\/\">SALON<\/a>.) Davis, as it turns out, hasn&#8217;t had an abortion.\u00c2\u00a0 Even when she, like, could have.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; she was a teenage mother herself. She managed to eventually graduate from Harvard Law School and serve in the Texas senate.<strong> It is just unfortunate that she hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t learned from her own example <\/strong>&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>First, one can support abortion rights and still not have one.\u00c2\u00a0 Second, if Perry is trying to make the point that having children isn&#8217;t <em>all that disruptive<\/em> of a life by pointing to one woman who made it through law school with a child&#8230; The answer is that at least she <em>chose<\/em> that option.\u00c2\u00a0 That makes a big difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Perry tried the old tu quoque with the Texas state Senator and abortion rights defender Wendy Davis the other day.\u00c2\u00a0 (Reported here at SALON.) Davis, as it turns out, hasn&#8217;t had an abortion.\u00c2\u00a0 Even when she, like, could have. &#8230; she was a teenage mother herself. She managed to eventually graduate from Harvard Law &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4294\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Support abortions, but don&#8217;t have them? You must be a hypocrite<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tu-quoque"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4294"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4297,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4294\/revisions\/4297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}