{"id":1915931,"date":"2023-04-17T22:57:21","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T02:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-nancy-maces-5-dumbest-abortion-takes-from-the-past-week\/"},"modified":"2023-04-17T23:03:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T03:03:04","slug":"rep-nancy-maces-5-dumbest-abortion-takes-from-the-past-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-nancy-maces-5-dumbest-abortion-takes-from-the-past-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Nancy Mace\u2019s 5 Dumbest Abortion Takes From The Past Week"},"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\">22<\/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%2Frep-nancy-maces-5-dumbest-abortion-takes-from-the-past-week%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=1915931&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 class=\"article-content\">\n<p>Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., has come out with some shocking (and bad) advice for Republicans: If you want to win elections, quit burying your \u201cheads in the sand\u201d and compromise with Democrats on the slaughter of unborn babies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mace\u2019s comments yesterday on \u201cFox News Sunday\u201d come after a week of <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/04\/11\/biden-administration-more-careful-about-abortion-pill-ruling-than-nancy-mace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">anti-life rhetoric<\/a> in the wake of the recent rulings regarding the abortion pill mifepristone. Here are five of the dumbest things she\u2019s said so far in reaction to restrictions being placed on a drug responsible for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.guttmacher.org\/article\/2022\/02\/medication-abortion-now-accounts-more-half-all-us-abortions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more than half<\/a>\u00a0of the nation\u2019s abortions.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1394584440\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div  class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-ec316881cc91580cf6b9a5bc73ba2bbe fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-ec316881cc91580cf6b9a5bc73ba2bbe\"><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. Parroting the \u2018Pro-Birth\u2019 Smear<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cIf we\u2019re going to ban abortion,\u201d Mace <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/nancy-mace-says-gop-tone-deaf-abortion-we-have-not-learned-lesson-midterms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>\u00a0during the Fox interview, \u201cwhat are we doing about\u201d issues such as promoting access to birth control (which is a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/09\/21\/hormonal-birth-control-is-killing-women-why-wont-the-fda-talk-about-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">toxic<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC5173458\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">group 1 carcinogen<\/a>), improving the foster care system and adoption services, promoting women\u2019s health care in rural areas, and restricting Americans\u2019\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/gop-rep-nancy-mace-blasts-182347036.html?guccounter=1&#038;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrZHVja2dvLmNvbS8&#038;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJIFfr00Nfg2NXyFNvlfHIVjzfabQuUqnAeamWyyA2ulYCaZ-2VhVX-ePhaIe1spmK0xqDWjKyYags0Kq_yN8V-aD7KitmqHYJ8-GquWq9QAFEwXbiT70D0ZCiYX7J1VOJklIIqT7M3Lxp49T4lEG1KO8oLoTWSbTiPj829LQ0c8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Second Amendment<\/a>\u00a0rights.\u00a0\u201cThere are a lot of things that we can do to protect life and not alienate the independent voter,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Here, Mace is repeating the textbook \u201cpro-birth\u201d talking point the left uses to accuse pro-lifers of only caring about people up until birth, just because conservatives don\u2019t support leftist policies like expanding the welfare state.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In parroting the \u201cpro-birth\u201d attack, both Democrats and Mace ignore the fundamental issue. While adoption and the foster care system are important, they are separate from abortion. Mace\u2019s dislike of her colleagues\u2019 stances on gun control does not invalidate the fact that abortion ends the lives of unborn children. It does not dismiss the reality that abortion relies heavily on evil dehumanization tactics used against, for example, black people during American slavery.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Possible room for improvement on some of the issues Mace mentioned doesn\u2019t change the fact that unborn children at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/baby\/interactive-pregnancy-tool-fetal-development\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">20 weeks<\/a>\u00a0of gestation have a heartbeat, brain waves, pain receptors, and functioning organs. Nor does it negate the need for change in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abortion_law_in_the_United_States_by_state#cite_note-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dozens<\/a> of states that allow for abortion up to or even after 22 weeks (despite the youngest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guinnessworldrecords.com\/news\/2021\/6\/worlds-most-premature-baby-given-0-odds-of-survival-celebrates-first-birthday-663394\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">surviving<\/a> preemie being born at 21 weeks) and the six states and the District of Columbia that allow a child to be aborted up until birth.<\/p>\n<div  class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-227e3e774553626b6e4b793fc1bc8021 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-227e3e774553626b6e4b793fc1bc8021\"><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. Suggesting\u00a0<em>Dobbs <\/em>Wasn\u2019t a Win\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cWe have not learned our lesson from the midterm election. We went [from] mildly pro-choice to being a vast majority of voters being pro-choice after Roe v. Wade. It changed the entire electoral environment in \u201822,\u201d said Mace, insinuating that the Supreme Court\u2019s\u00a0<em>Dobbs v. Jackson<\/em>\u00a0decision hurt Republicans. To be clear, the\u00a0<em>Dobbs v. Jackson\u00a0<\/em>decision is the biggest and most consequential victory conservatives have arguably ever had. Since the <em>Dobbs<\/em> decision, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2023\/04\/13\/5377-babies-are-saved-every-month-from-abortion-thanks-to-dobbs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">5,377<\/a> unborn babies have been saved every month.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, there is no concrete evidence that abortion was the main factor for Republicans\u2019 underwhelming midterms performance. As The Federalist\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/11\/10\/the-big-midterm-lesson-defensive-victories-on-the-right-arent-going-to-save-the-country\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">John Davidson<\/a>\u00a0reported, \u201cRepublicans who didn\u2019t shy away from talking about abortion after\u00a0<em>Dobbs<\/em>, and who signed into law abortion legislation earlier this year without flinching or apologizing, did\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sbaprolife\/status\/1590385802210869250?s=20&#038;t=ai495H13BQEiBDFXDbGOZA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">really well<\/a>\u2026\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3. Making Exceptions to Life<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cWe need to find a middle ground on this issue,\u201d said Mace during her \u201cFox News Sunday\u201d interview, \u201cand I have a great pro-life voting record, but some of the stances we take and especially when it comes to rape and incest, protecting the life of the mother, it\u2019s so extreme that middle, independent voters, right of center, left of center, they cannot support us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pro-lifers have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/02\/21\/the-pro-abortion-life-of-the-mother-argument-is-a-false-flag-operation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">proven<\/a>\u00a0time and time again that intentionally killing an unborn baby is\u00a0<em>never<\/em>\u00a0necessary when the life of the mother is threatened. And victims of rape and incest are only\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/26\/pushing-abortion-on-rape-victims-only-adds-to-their-trauma\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">further<\/a>\u00a0victimized and traumatized by abortion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div  class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-693248d067a7d46f1a487ef08afde12b fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-693248d067a7d46f1a487ef08afde12b\"><\/div>\n<p>Abortion is responding to violence with violence, and instead of punishing the perpetrator, it punishes an innocent child. If Mace truly believed in the humanity of unborn children, she wouldn\u2019t suggest that the circumstances of their conception invalidate their value and personhood.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4. Trusting the FDA and Suggesting the Agency Ignore a Judge\u2019s Ruling<\/h2>\n<p>Mace joined Republican presidential candidate\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/haley-weighs-in-on-abortion-pill-ruling-i-dont-want-unelected-judges-deciding\/ar-AA19N12P\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nikki Haley<\/a>\u00a0in criticizing Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk\u2019s ruling that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wrongfully approved the abortion pill. Mace\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/04\/11\/biden-administration-more-careful-about-abortion-pill-ruling-than-nancy-mace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">encouraged<\/a>\u00a0the federal agency to ignore Kacsmaryk and she dismissed his decision because he\u2019s an \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0-eHqnDMFTQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">unelected judge<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear if Mace is aware that the FDA is made up of entirely unelected bureaucrats. It\u2019s also puzzling why Mace is so confident in the FDA. Mace has publicly stated she was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?c5056338\/user-clip-gop-rep-nancy-mace-admits-long-term-injuries-covid-vaccine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">injured<\/a>\u00a0by the Covid vaccine, a drug which \u2014 like the abortion pill \u2014 had its approval expedited by the FDA.<\/p>\n<p>As Kacsmaryk pointed out in his opinion, the FDA would only have been able to approve the abortion pill by falsely characterizing pregnancy as an \u201cillness.\u201d And for the last two decades, the FDA has been lifting restrictions on the lethal drug, which is responsible for a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1177\/23333928211053965\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">500 percent increase<\/a>\u00a0in abortion-related emergency room visits.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">5. Feeling \u2018Attacked\u2019 Because Pro-Lifers Are Holding Her Accountable\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>Mace has not been very good at taking criticism. After the Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America nonprofit called out Mace for her anti-life rhetoric and gave her a mediocre pro-life rating, she falsely accused the organization of criticizing her for her stance on birth control.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI find it ironic that Susan B. Anthony would attack me,\u201d said Mace. \u201cI\u2019m a victim of rape, I advocate for women who have been raped, and that organization will no longer talk to my office about pro-life legislation because I\u2019m talking about birth control. I mean, some of these groups have gotten so over the top and extreme.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mace\u2019s public statements and mixed voting record, not her stance on birth control, are directly responsible for her\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sbaprolife.org\/representative\/nancy-mace\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">B rating<\/a>.\u00a0SBA Pro-Life America\u00a0provided details on how Mace voted against a handful of pro-life bills and the organization also <a href=\"https:\/\/sbaprolife.org\/newsroom\/press-releases\/susan-b-anthony-pro-life-america-responds-to-u-s-rep-nancy-mace-r-sc-on-cnn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">condemned<\/a> her anti-life abortion pill rhetoric. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cRep. Mace\u2019s recent comments in favor of the FDA and their mailing of abortion pills directly to girls, without in-person doctor visits, are wildly out of step with the American people,\u201d wrote E.V. Osment, vice president of communications for SBA Pro-Life America. \u201cAmericans do not believe the FDA\u2019s claims that mail-order abortion drugs are safe.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kofc.org\/en\/news-room\/polls\/americans-support-legal-limits-on-abortion.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">63% of Americans<\/a>\u00a0oppose mail-order abortion pills, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sbaprolife.org\/newsroom\/press-releases\/new-poll-americans-distrust-fda-reject-mail-order-abortion-pills\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">by a double-digit margin<\/a>, Americans disagree that the abortion pill has been vetted carefully enough to protect women\u2019s health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is time for the FDA to be held accountable for fast-tracking a dangerous drug that harms women and girls as well as ending the lives of countless unborn children,\u201d added\u00a0Osment. \u201cBut they will never be held accountable if leaders like Mace encourage them to ignore the law and the science.\u201d<\/p>\n<div  class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-4c635cd2d630c0955a11df38cccd5d50 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-4c635cd2d630c0955a11df38cccd5d50\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">   Evita Duffy-Alfonso is a staff writer to The Federalist and the co-founder of the Chicago Thinker. She loves the Midwest, lumberjack sports, writing, and her family. Follow her on Twitter at @evitaduffy_1 or contact her at evita@thefederalist.com.<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-tags bdr-top-black mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-15 pt-md-45\">\n<ul class=\"list-unstyled d-flex flex-wrap align-items-center mb-0 mx-n10 p-0\">\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/abortion-pill\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">abortion pill<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/dobbs-v-jackson-womens-health-organization\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Dobbs v. 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Nancy Mace, R-S.C., has come out with some shocking (and bad) advice for Republicans: If you want to win elections, quit burying your \u201cheads in the sand\u201d and compromise with Democrats on the slaughter of unborn babies.\u00a0 Mace\u2019s comments yesterday on \u201cFox News Sunday\u201d come after a week of anti-life rhetoric in the wake<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1623,"featured_media":1915933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[4310,18037,24540,4217,7129,4259,3912],"class_list":["post-1915931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-abortion","tag-dumbest","tag-maces","tag-nancy","tag-rep","tag-takes","tag-week"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915931","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\/1623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1915931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1915933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1915931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1915931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1915931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}