GOP Sen Candidate: Women Over 50 Shouldn't Care About Abortion

Monday, October 14, 2024

Republican Bernie Moreno in Ohio's tight Senate race has put abortion at the center of debate. "Sadly, by the way, there's a lot of suburban women, a lot of suburban women that are like, Listen, abortion is it,'" Mr. Moreno said at a town hall at Warren County on September 20. The GOP candidate added: "If I can't have an abortion in this country whenever I want, I will vote for anybody else.' OK. It's a little crazy, by the way, but especially for women who are like past 50, I'm thinking to myself, I don't think that's an issue for you.'"

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The Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Ohio says he doesn't think abortion is "an issue" for women who are "past 50." https://t.co/SwMawSYyqU
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Mr. Brown and his allies pounced on the comment, which went to the heart of the Democrat's bid for a fourth term representing the Republican-leaning state. A woman featured in one TV ad wondered why, if a 50-year-old woman doesn't have standing to feel strongly about abortion, a 57-year-old man - that's Mr. Moreno's age - running for Senate would.

#1 | Posted by censored at 2024-10-13 05:22 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I have a serious problem with any man who is the father of a daughter, the brother of a sister, the son of a mother, the nephew of an aunt, the uncle of a niece, the grandfather of a granddaughter who thinks women shouldn't have bodily autonomy.

My daughter knows for a 100% certainty that she will have a right to do with her body what she chooses as long as I am alive.

Any man who thinks otherwise is a pathetic excuse for a man.

#2 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-10-13 07:04 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Because he knows what is good for you.

White males with God complex.

#3 | Posted by fresno500 at 2024-10-14 05:16 AM | Reply

IN case anyone forgot, republicans dont care about any issue which doesn't directly affect them personally.

Empathy is a more evolved brain skill.

#4 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-10-14 01:23 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

So when we get old republicans think that the civil rights of others no longer matter us?

Republicans are desperately trying to make Trumpy's incoherent insanity make sense.

Good luck with that!

#5 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-10-14 01:24 PM | Reply

So his position is that people who can't get pregnant shouldn't care about abortion? Then why does he keep talking about the topic? Is Bernie Moreno a trans male?

#6 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2024-10-14 01:35 PM | Reply

I've been in sales my whole life.

People buy for their own reasons....not mine.

don't tell voters what should be an issue to them.

#7 | Posted by eberly at 2024-10-14 01:37 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

@#1 ... A woman featured in one TV ad wondered why, if a 50-year-old woman doesn't have standing to feel strongly about abortion, a 57-year-old man - that's Mr. Moreno's age - running for Senate would. ...

Worth a repeat...

A woman featured in one TV ad wondered why, if a 50-year-old woman doesn't have standing to feel strongly about abortion, a 57-year-old man - that's Mr. Moreno's age - running for Senate would.

#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-10-14 01:39 PM | Reply

Ignorant fuggin' dirtbag. No other reasonable explanation. Only reasonable explanation for the existence of MAGAts, in general.

#9 | Posted by Angrydad at 2024-10-14 01:39 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I think everyone over 56 should be cut out of reproductive politicking... including Congressors... Senators... Voters.

I'm serious... it's one of those issues people use as they get closer to death to rectify youthful indiscretions with "I've seen the light" sanctimony... or at least appear to... like GW Bushturd2. His old "it was wrong when I paid for it and it's wrong now" cop-out to fluff evangelical vote. They are afraid of gawdz wrath... trying to make up for the big no no.

Too many people who will not be alive to live with the results of unplanned, and unwanted pregnancies are allowed to choose decisions that will not affect them. As it stands we cannot house all the fetuses that were carried to term a few decades ago... at the same time people are insisting that a severe drop in population will hurt the country... sometime in the future... they will not be alive to see... when there are plenty of viable people in the world now... and yet they run in circles hair ablaze crying "we will run out of people".

I think the breedables should be the only ones to vote on breeding issues.

Or go laissez-faire on the matter... kick the government out of it... if there is no market for abortions... they will go away...

I mean where is the faith in the free market?

#10 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2024-10-14 01:48 PM | Reply

Hey there legislators, how about this for a deal:
-Women over 50 stop it about abortion
-Men over 50 give up their guns and/or their Viagra

I think women will take this one...

#11 | Posted by catdog at 2024-10-14 02:04 PM | Reply

don't tell voters what should be an issue to them.

#7 | Posted by eberly

Ignorance is the only path to republican success.

#12 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-10-14 02:33 PM | Reply

He's right you know.

Old people should stop trying to outlaw abortion and instead work on being moral in their own lives.

#13 | Posted by Tor at 2024-10-14 02:35 PM | Reply

My daughter is graduating next May and she was looking over her first job offer. The offer letter, the benefits package, etc and I was explaining to her what all of this meant.

As we were discussing how health insurance really works birth control, abortion, etc. came up because she's witnessing the abortion debate rage on and it's occurred to her the enforcement reality of abortion is to restrict HER healthcare. She now remembers me telling her that when she was 15 and she was questioning the entire pro-life position. That the only way for the State to regulate abortion is to get between you and your doctor and threaten both you and your doctor with punishment.

#14 | Posted by eberly at 2024-10-14 02:58 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

This is what happens when Republicans think!They're idiots who don't know how to read a room so to speak. They see most Americans want abortion available, yet they double down on anti-abortion rhetoric and laws. When they allow the voters in their state to vote on abortion, it doesn't go their way. Then they try to ignore it or vacate it.

#15 | Posted by Ronnie68 at 2024-10-14 04:06 PM | Reply

#10 Righthistrite No, what they're worried about is that not enough white babies are being born. That is their total concern. They're afraid of whites no longer being in the majority as far as American population.

#16 | Posted by Ronnie68 at 2024-10-14 04:12 PM | Reply

I've been in sales my whole life.
People buy for their own reasons....not mine.
don't tell voters what should be an issue to them.
#7 | Posted by eberly at 2024-10-14 01:37 PM

Isn't politics "sales" of ideas, not just people?

#17 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2024-10-14 04:19 PM | Reply

#17

Fair question. Express your opinions, even your "expert" opinions, and appeal to what matters to voters....but don't decide for them what should or does matter.

#18 | Posted by eberly at 2024-10-14 04:44 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"They're afraid of whites no longer being in the majority as far as American population."

That's because they've seen how minorities are treated in this country.

#19 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-10-14 04:46 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 2

Women Over 50 Shouldn't Care About Abortion

To follow this logic.

Men, at any age, shouldn't care about abortions.

#20 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-10-14 05:06 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

There is a term for living beings that cannot control their reproduction..... livestock.

#21 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-10-15 12:25 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"That's because they've seen how minorities are treated in this country."

That's funny because the majority of legal abortions (especially in red states) are performed on so-called people of color.

I wonder what these people you speak of would say if they actually dug into the data and saw that it's Keisha, not little Mary Jane at the clinics?

#22 | Posted by RomeoAlpha at 2024-10-15 12:57 PM | Reply

Republican Bernie Moreno in Ohio's tight Senate race has put abortion at the center of debate. "For women who are like past 50, I'm thinking to myself, I don't think that's an issue for you".

Typical Republican logic. The man is 57 years old, abortion is his main concern in life, but women who are also over 50 shouldn't even think about the issue.

#23 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar at 2024-10-15 02:32 PM | Reply

Did he counsel Justice Coney Barrett to recuse herself from Dobbs, as she was over 50 at the time?

#24 | Posted by El_Buscador at 2024-10-15 07:30 PM | Reply