| Fox News - Latest Headlines | | | | 'The View' host slams Sen. Graham's abortion bill: 'There is no such thing' as late-term abortion | | Sep 14, 2022 | | "The View" co-host Sara Haines claimed there is "no such thing as people having late-term abortions" during Wednesday’s episode of the daytime talk show. Haines would go on to declare that the GOP claim that the Democratic Party supports abortions in the late stage of pregnancy is a "myth" designed to achieve a political outcome. She ultimately admitted that 1.3% of abortions are late-term abortions but employed that statistic to double down on her original point. Haines also argued that late-term abortions are only done for "heartbreaking medical reasons." THE VIEW’S HOSTIN CLAIMS QUEEN ELIZABETH WORE ‘CROWN WITH PILLAGED STONES,’ BRITAIN A ‘GENOCIDAL’ EMPIRE The co-host’s statements came up during a segment on remarks from Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on a potential Republican bill to enact a federal limit on abortion past 15 weeks of pregnancy. Of course, the ladies of "The View" vehemently disagreed with Graham’s proposed legislation, something he claimed would go to a vote if his party took a majority in Congress this November. Though a couple of the co-hosts sarcastically thanked the Senator for energizing Democratic voters into showing up to stop pro-life Republicans from infringing on their right to choose. Haines took aim at Graham’s bill, beginning with a criticism of it for leaving room for red states and their more stringent abortion restrictions, while keeping more pro-choice states from allowing it past 15 weeks. "The way he’s written this, it will allow for the states that have stricter rules – those 6-week bans – they’ll say, ‘Oh well that’s fine.’ But then if you’re more liberal than that, he’s gonna say, ‘No, you gotta come back.’ So he also cherry-picked the way it applies," Haines argued. The co-host then asserted that Graham justified his pro-life bill by way of a political "myth." She stated, "He calls it a late-term, um, late-term abortion act – by the way 15 weeks for anyone that doesn’t know, is one week into your second trimester. And just to clear up a often-referenced myth that is used to get a certain political outcome, there is no such thing as people having late-term abortions." "Say that again," co-host Whoopi Goldberg told Haines, to re-emphasize the point. More emphatically, Haines declared, "There is no such thing as people having late-term abortions." The audience followed up with applause. Debunking the claim she just made, she continued, "1.3! 1.3 percent of abortions are performed at greater than 21 weeks, and usually for heartbreaking medical reasons." Again, Whoopi wanted it re-emphasized, so Haines repeated her claims. "That is only done for heartbreaking medical reasons." "I have yet to see one situation where someone decides that," she continued, adding, "That is a myth being shopped around to get a certain political outcome." MONTAGE: ‘THE VIEW’ CO-HOST ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN CLARIFIES THAT SHE IS A REPUBLICAN Earlier this year, Fox News Digital reported on NPR’s findings that "collectively 3% of abortions occur at 18 weeks of pregnancy and beyond." NPR, like Haines, was looking to categorize late-term abortions as a negligible part of the abortion debate. Though as one prominent Twitter account noted at the time, "But the reason they only show % is because 10% of the 800k yearly abortions is 80K! For context: There are only 12K firearm homicides in the US each year. So 80K mostly elective abortions after the first trimester can be considered a rather significant amount for many people." Haines continued with her figures, stating, "And 91 percent of all abortions are performed in the first trimester." She then stated, "So until we are all clear on the information and data, we should not be toying with this because it’s being falsely shopped around." | | | | | Stacey Abrams praised on 'The View' for not conceding election, defends saying she 'won' Georgia race in 2018 | | Sep 14, 2022 | | A host of "The View" praised Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams for not conceding her election in 2018 as she defended her claim that she "won" her race against Republican Gov. Brian Kemp. "So this is your second run against incumbent Brian Kemp for governor, and polls show a tight race, especially the poll this morning. When you lost in 2018, you didn’t traditionally concede which I appreciated because you cited voter suppression. Are you confident that this will be a free and fair election, and not a repeat performance of what happened before?" co-host Sunny Hostin asked. Abrams said she appreciated the framing of Hostin's question. "I have never denied that I lost. I don’t live in the governor’s mansion. I would have noticed," she said. "And there is this clip that’s going around, and it shows me saying that we won, and what I was referring to was that we won in terms of communities that were long left out of the electoral process finally participating in '18 in outstanding numbers," she said. GEORGE SOROS THROWS $1M BEHIND STACEY ABRAMS' SECOND GUBERNATORIAL RUN "But I’m not delusional. Just so that’s clear, but what we know was that the issues that we raised in ’18, the fact that 214 precincts were shut down, that 53,000 people had their voter registrations held hostage, that 1.4 million people were purged, including half a million who simply had chosen not to vote, that we were able to tackle that because we raised the issues, because I refused to say that that was a good thing, we saw as a response, the state legislature the following year, in response to lawsuits that I filed and others, started to fix those problems," Abrams said, touting high election turnout in 2020 when President Biden won the state. Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin thanked Abrams for "admitting" she outright did not win. "That’s such a rare thing," she said. "I did it on the day I didn’t win," Abrams said. "I’m not the governor, said that. The other is election wasn’t fair to voters. Also said that. In this country, we have the responsibility to challenge broken systems. If we do not lift up problems, we will not get answers. What we don’t have the right to is violent response or to spin out conspiracy theories. I don’t say things without evidence, and that I think is the distinction that is being lost in this attempt to conflate who I am and what I have done for the last four years with others." In 2019, Abrams addressed a crowd at the annual convention of the Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network and said, "despite the final tally and the inauguration [of Gov. Brian Kemp] and the situation we find ourselves in, I do have a very affirmative statement to make: We won." KEMP CAMP REACTS TO NYT REPORT SUGGESTING DEMOCRAT STACEY ABRAMS ‘FLOUNDERING’ IN GEORGIA GOVERNORS RACE "Concession needs to say something is right and true and proper," Abrams said at the time. "You can't trick me into saying it was right." She told the New York Times in 2019 she stood by her claim of having "won" despite not being governor. "Now, I cannot say that everybody who tried to cast a ballot would’ve voted for me, but if you look at the totality of the information, it is sufficient to demonstrate that so many people were disenfranchised and disengaged by the very act of the person who won the election that I feel comfortable now saying, ‘I won,’" she said. "My larger point is, look, I won because we transformed the electorate, we turned out people who had never voted, we outmatched every Democrat in Georgia history." Abrams told Axios in February that she would "acknowledge the victor" in the 2022 gubernatorial election. "I will always acknowledge the legal outcome of an election. I have never failed to do that," Abrams told Axios. She added that she doesn't want the American people to be in a place "where we cannot legitimately question" and criticize systems in order to improve them. | | | | | Former Twitter engineer admits access to user data under grilling from Sen. Josh Hawley: 'Yes or no?' | | Sep 14, 2022 | | Sen. Josh Hawley, R-MO, grilled a former Twitter executive appearing before the Senate Homeland Security committee on Wednesday, securing an admission that he had access to troves of user data. Alex Roetter, Twitter's former senior vice president for engineering, appeared before the committee Wednesday to testify regarding the threats social media pose to homeland security. Hawley questioned Roetter relentlessly using information Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko had revealed in a hearing earlier this week. "You were an engineer at Twitter, is that right? You were the senior vice president for engineering?" Hawley began. "Correct, yes," Roetter responded. NEW YORK'S YONKERS POLICE SLAM YOUTUBE FOR CENSORSHIP AFTER SITE REMOVES ANTI-ASIAN ATTACK VIDEO "So, yesterday Mr. Zatko testified to another committee I sit on that 4,000 engineers at Twitter had access to all of the personal information, user data, geolocations of Twitter users. Is that accurate?" Roetter attempted to dodge the question, saying Zatko started work at Twitter after his departure from the company. "He said all the engineers. You were an engineer. Did you have access to user data?" Hawley pressed. "When I was there, there, uh, I don't know if it was all the engineers," Roetter said, trailing off. "Did you have access to user data?" Hawley repeated. NYT PODCAST HOST: REPUBLICANS KEEP CRYING ABOUT CENSORSHIP EVEN THOUGH THERE IS 'NO EVIDENCE' OF BIAS "Well, I was the head of engineering for the whole company," Roetter said. "Did you have access to user data? I'm looking for a yes or a no. I'll just remind you you're under oath," Hawley said. "Uh, no, but I think I could have gotten it," Roetter responded. "Ok, ok. Well, if you can get it, that's what we call access to user data. Is that a yes?" Hawley said. "That's probably right, yeah," Roetter said. Hawley then questioned Roetter on whether he had ever accessed user data personally or was aware of other engineers ever "doxing" users, both of which the former executive denied. "Were you aware of Twitter engineers ever inserting or taking over an account and tweeting out or changing the content of that account? Mr. Zatko said he thought that had happened," Hawley said. "I'm not aware of that," Roetter responded. "Uh, lots to unpack there. Thank you, Mr. Chairman," Hawley concluded. Roetter was among three tech experts to testify in the first section of Wednesday's hearing. Former Facebook executive Brian Boland also testified. Hawley pressed him on whether he was aware of any cooperation between Facebook and the U.S. government during his time at the company, which ended in November 2020. Boland said he could not recall Facebook ever taking censorious action at the behest of government officials during his tenure. | | | | | |
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