THE FEDERALIST/ Georgi Boorman-
“This is an apple. Some people might try to tell you this is a banana. They might scream “banana, banana, banana” over and over and over again. They might put BANANA in all caps. You might even start to believe this is a banana, but it’s not. This is an apple.”
That’s the script of a CNN ad from October 2017. Fast-forward to May 6, 2019. Chris Cuomo has former senator Rick Santorum and former speaker for the New York City Council Christine Quinn, a CNN contributor, on “Prime Time” to discuss fetal heartbeat bills. The governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp, just signed into law one such bill, entitled the Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act. You can read it in full here.
Far from keeping the discussion to whether such laws are legal under Supreme Court dictates, the conversation degraded into a shouting match in which one side, at least on the immediate issue, was in full possession of the facts and the other was not. Continue reading…
