White House counselor Kellyanne Conway went on Fox News recently where she questioned why abortion rights are labeled “women’s issues.” This prompted an old video of the counselor threatening feminists that she would “perform” and abortion on them “with a gun.”
During the Fox News discussion, Conway pushed the right-wing narrative that falsely claims a bill designed to loosen certain restrictions on late-term abortions in Virginia is “infanticide.”
“You say most of the mainstream media being pro-abortion,” host Harris Faulkner began. “I’m sure some of them would definitely take exception to that, as they do their jobs objectively.”
“They’re going to say they’re pro-choice, but are they for this war against this?” Conway asked in response. “You can’t be pro-choice and no longer – and no longer own and claim these late-term abortions that are now being proposed as law in New York, in Virginia and in four other states. You can’t pick and choose.”
Faulkner then reminded Conway that abortion was, in fact, a political issue – not a media issue.
“I’m sorry. I have to say this: Why do they call it ‘women’s issues’ then?” Conway questioned Faulkner. “Why do we always have to hear that such-and-such politician is bad or good on ‘women’s issues?’ Don’t they really mean abortion? Because I’ve been in politics for 30 years, and I’ve never – not a single time – heard the phrase ‘men’s issues,’ because people believe men – male voters can handle all the issues.”
Conway’s Fox News interview prompted Mediaite to resurface a 2007 speech Conway made before the College Republican National Committee where she threatened to shoot pro-choice women.
“I always love to say to those gender studies people: If you say ‘abortion,’ or ‘stem cells’ or ‘guns’ one more time, I’m going to perform one of those on you,” Conway can be heard saying in the video. “Because, you know with a gun, because you, by implication, are suggesting that women can’t do the math.”
Here's Kellyanne Conway threatening to "perform" an abortion on feminists "with a gun." #adultsInTheRoom pic.twitter.com/zchqQbqeu5
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