GET ME REWRITE: Ohio troglodyte and drooling U.S. Senate candidate schools women on reproductive rights

 

New York Times, 9/26/2024

Republicans don’t want to touch abortion, their most troublesome issue since the overturning of Roe v. Wade. But like a toothache they keep probing with their tongue, they just can’t seem to help it. 

This week, it was Bernie Moreno, the Republican running to unseat Senator Sherrod Brown in Ohio, suggesting that abortion rights shouldn’t concern women over the age of 50 — “I don’t think that’s an issue for you,” he said on tape in Warren County, Ohio, over the weekend, as first reported by the NBC affiliate in Columbus. 

Here's the full quote.

“You know, the left has a lot of single-issue voters.Sadly, by the way, there’s a lot of suburban women, a lot of suburban women that are like, ‘Listen, abortion is it. 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 that are, like, past 50.”