Fox's Jessica Tarlov shot down the notion that Democrats are the only ones that care about women's reproductive rights since SCOTUS overturned Roe, and turned the discussion to Kate Cox, who was forced to flee the state of Texas to get an abortion, something the network obviously doesn't want them talking much about.
A transcript search for the mention of Kate Cox's name on Fox for the last couple of weeks yields all of two results other than the segment above from this Friday's The Five. One where she is very briefly mentioned on December 9th when the Texas Supreme Court temporarily blocked the lower court ruling, and another from Baier's show on the 11th where he mentions her having to leave the state.
While discussing recent polling in yet another one of their hourly segments on how everything in the world that happens is bad news for Biden, and how much they hate VP Kamala Harris, with condescending Kellyanne Conway making some snide remarks about Democrats saying "Basically the modern day Democratic Party wakes up every morning, it says January 6th on the calendar, they get in their electric vehicle, and they go get an abortion. The end, in ten seconds or less, the Democratic Party," Will Cain brought Tarlov into the conversation by asking her what Democrats had to run on.
Tarlov managed to make their viewers finally hear something more substantial than a ten second news blurb on Kate Cox's ordeal, and what the Texas Supreme Court and the so-called pro-life movement has done to Cox and women like her who want families and found themselves in the position of needing an abortion to protect their health and future fertility.
CAIN: Let me ask you this Jessica. I believe you reject the idea, pardon me if I'm wrong, that Joe Biden will be replaced as nominee for president. So, if you reject the idea, my question to you is, what will Democrats do? What will be the topic, the issue? Kamala Harris wants talk more about Palestinians. I mean, my suspicion is 2024 for the Democrats will be the year of abortion. That will be the topic of choice for the entire year.
TARLOV: Well, since the Dobbs decision was overturned, abortion hasn't just been the topic of choice for Democrats. It's been the topic of choice for all Americans. Republicans who are part of the pro-life movement celebrate it as a victory, and Greg always points this out, it's a morality question for them, right? This isn't a negotiable about, no, we'll go to 15 weeks or should it be 20 weeks, if life begins at conception. And so, lot of these states who have incredibly intrusive and over-extensive restrictions on abortion, they are standing by their beliefs there.
So yes, this election will be about abortion. There will be more referendums on it and Democrats will continue to win on those, as they have been doing in deep, deep red states. But Kellyanne says, you know, we wake up, it's January 6th, and then we go and get an abortion.
CONWAY: In your electric vehicles.
TARLOV: Sure, in my EV. Um, so, January 6th happened once for me. I haven't gone to get an abortion. I don't have an electric vehicle, but you continue to hear about cases like Kate Cox, from Texas, where you live, right?
A woman, a mother of two, pregnant with a wanted pregnancy, her third pregnancy, and gets a diagnosis of Trisomy 18. Her doctors say she needs an abortion. Lower court grants it, and the Supreme Court of Texas overrules it, restricting her, so the health of the mother and preserving her fertility. This is what the pro-life movement wants, people who want children should be able to have them.
She has to leave the state in order to have that care. She has the means to do it, a lot of women don't, and that will be on the ballot. But you said there are no good polls, and I am not saying that Biden is not in trouble.
I don't live in a fantasy land, but Reuters, Ipsos had a poll of the seven biggest swing states, Biden is up four. The Harvard Kennedy poll of young people, same margin advantage with gen-z and millennial voters that he won in 2020. There is good news. We choose not to talk about it.
Her network chooses never to talk about it other than allowing guests like her who are outnumbered four to one to occasionally get a word in, which is always immediately drowned out by the other noise. I'll be surprised if all of them aren't chastised for bringing up abortion and Tarlov for bringing up Cox's name by the network bigwigs.
