As Twitchy told you yesterday, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez flat-out lied about the Alabama anti-abortion bill, falsely claiming that rape or incest victims who get abortions would face jail time.
Alabama lawmakers are making all abortions a felony punishable w jailtime,incl women victimized by rape+incest.
Of course, no added punishments for rapists.
It’s going to @GovernorKayIvey‘s desk. She will decide the future of women’s rights in Alabama.https://t.co/IRR0EtsxHp
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 15, 2019
In fact, the bill explicitly states that women who get abortions will not be held civilly or criminally liable. And when AOC was called out on her lie, she attempted to spin her way out of it:
It’s a felony punishable by jail, incl cases of women pregnant by rape or incest. Twitter is 280 chars – read the context clues in grammar of the tweet.
But good to know you’re here to promote criminalizing medical providers aiding victims of rape and incest! ?? good job
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 15, 2019
Actually it *would* be a felony for women – if those women are medical providers. See? According to your own semantic standard, you “lied.”
We can fact-check obvious semantics all day and make absurd bad faith claims if that’s how you want be. But I have better uses for my time.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 15, 2019
Apparently those “better uses” including doubling down on her dishonesty to score more blood money for Planned Parenthood (and, in turn, for herself):
AOC lies again about the Alabama abortion bill in a fundraising email
AOC falsely claims that women who seek abortions will be criminally punished
The law states: "No woman upon whom an abortion is performed or attempted to be performed shall be criminally or civilly liable" pic.twitter.com/pOrh4gDPGu
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) May 16, 2019
We’d say shame on AOC, but can you really shame the shameless?
Hey @AOC are we still missing the context?
— Steve (@Stevefor16) May 16, 2019
Absolutely ridiculous. Outright lie.
— apoliticalguy (@apoliticalguy1) May 16, 2019
Fake news cortez strikes again…. maybe she will tell us later she was kidding
— The Real American Truth (@TheReal02624470) May 16, 2019
It says a lot that these pro-abortion extremists feel like they have to lie this blatantly in order to not lose the debate. https://t.co/0RA4jV08cg
— Matt Wolking (@MattWolking) May 16, 2019
It really does.
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