HOW YOU DO LIE

Greetings. I am a voting constituent in rural west Texas. I’m writing to thank our governor for once again showing the country and the world what a regressive Republican leadership can do to a great state. And its citizens. On Wednesday our Gov. Abbott was interviewed by Jake Tapper on CNN. Where he proceeded to again spread the heinous lie that Democrats are happily killing babies once they are born, or as his ilk like to call it, ‘late term abortions.’ Which anyone with even half a brain knows is not remotely true. This is a repulsive lie. And the people who insist on repeating such vile remarks are beneath contempt. Then, to add insult to injury, Tapper, elsewhere in his interview with Abbott, pressed the governor about a recent study that found infant deaths in Texas surged 12.9% between 2021 and 2022, when the state’s strict abortion ban first went into effect, while infant mortality rates rose 8.3% in the state in that time period. The study found that the rest of the U.S. saw a 1.8% increase in infant deaths and a 2.2% increase in infant mortality rates during that time. Abbott, when asked if he was concerned about his state’s abortion ban and “these disastrous increases,” said he was unfamiliar with the study. What??? He then segued into the claim that Kamala Harris supports abortion to the “very last second before a fully developed child” is born. “Where? Where are these abortions being carried out up until the moment of birth?” Tapper asked. “I keep hearing Republican politicians talking about that. And, I mean, that’s infanticide. I don’t know where this is going on.” I’m with Jake. You are a disgrace to Texas.