{"id":1464622,"date":"2022-05-05T08:00:37","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T12:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1464622"},"modified":"2022-05-05T08:00:41","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T12:00:41","slug":"watch-i-was-not-just-a-lump-of-cells-pa-senate-candidate-conceived-in-rape-accuses-dr-oz-of-flip-flopping-on-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-i-was-not-just-a-lump-of-cells-pa-senate-candidate-conceived-in-rape-accuses-dr-oz-of-flip-flopping-on-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: \u2018I Was Not Just A Lump Of Cells\u2019: PA Senate Candidate Conceived In Rape Accuses Dr. Oz Of Flip-Flopping On Abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">44<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-i-was-not-just-a-lump-of-cells-pa-senate-candidate-conceived-in-rape-accuses-dr-oz-of-flip-flopping-on-abortion%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1464622&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/pjimage.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Kathy Barnette, one of the three leading GOP candidates for the U.S Senate seat, targeted Dr. Mehmet Oz during Wednesday night\u2019s GOP Senate debate as she accused him of flip-flopping on abortion while she spoke of the fact that she was conceived by a rape.<\/p>\n<p>Moderator Greta Van Susteren prompted Barnette\u2019s response by asking about the leaked Supreme Court draft of an opinion that would overturn <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether this was a leak or whether it was a tactical operation, we will soon figure out, but one thing is clear: I am so very grateful that our nation is now having a very important conversation and that is one of the most important conversations: that is about life,\u201d Barnette began, then segued, \u201cI am the byproduct of a rape. My mother was 11 years old when I was conceived; my father was twenty-one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was not just a lump of cells. As you can see I\u2019m still not just a lump of cells, my life has value,\u201d she declared.<\/p>\n<p>Then she slammed Oz, claiming, \u201cAnd that is one of the reasons why it was so very disturbing when I saw Mehmet Oz running for this particular race when I\u2019ve seen him on numerous occasions \u2014 and specifically at the Breakfast Club \u2014 saying that my life was nothing more than an acorn with electrical currents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am wondering if the good doctor has now since changed his position on that,\u201d she fired. \u201cMy life is valuable and so are the many lives that find themselves in the womb of their mother, whether in the womb or towards the end of that life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Given thirty seconds to respond, Oz cited his mother-in-law. \u201cYou know one of the toughest endorsements you can ever get is from your mother-in-law,\u201d he replied. \u201cAnd my mother-in-law is an ordained minister. She wrote a lot of the pro-life literature in Montgomery County where we live and she certainly understands that I\u2019m pro-life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was a heart surgeon,\u201d he stated. \u201cI\u2019ve operated on small children, a few days old, and witnessed the majesty of their hearts pounding blood even though its ill cause I\u2019m operating on those bodies. I would never think of harming that child, or even nine months earlier because life starts at conception.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pennsylvania Senate GOP primary debate. Kathy Barnette: \u201cI am the product of rape and I am here to tell people like Dr Oz that I am not a clump of cells, my life matters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wVQAC49Dpe\">pic.twitter.com\/wVQAC49Dpe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Liz_Wheeler\/status\/1522035461857890305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/polling-institute\/reports\/monmouthpoll_pa_042722\/\">Monmouth University poll<\/a> released April 27 found a close three-way race among Barnette, Oz, and David McCormick, the former Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs during the George W. Bush administration.<\/p>\n<p>Asked which candidate they were \u201cvery likely\u201d to support, 22% of respondents named Oz, 19% chose McCormick, and 18% chose Barnette.<\/p>\n<p>Oz\u2019s ambiguous statements vis-a-vis abortion in the past are delineated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/dr-oz-campaign-insists-he-has-always-been-pro-life-his-past-comments-indicate-otherwise\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathy Barnette, one of the three leading GOP candidates for the U.S Senate seat, targeted Dr. Mehmet Oz during Wednesday night\u2019s GOP Senate debate as she accused him of flip-flopping<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1481678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1464622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1464622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1481678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1464622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1464622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1464622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}