“They hate that baby because it symbolizes a responsibility,” the Arizona Republican said in a newly unearthed 2022 interview.
Jennifer Bendery at HuffPost:
WASHINGTON — Rep. David Schweikert (R-Ariz.) said in a newly unearthed interview from 2022 that women who have abortions “hate the country” and “hate that baby” because they know if they carried their pregnancies to term, it would mean responsibility. Schweikert, who is currently facing a tough reelection bid, made his comments in July 2022 on a conservative radio program, “The Seth Leibsohn Show.” During the interview, host Seth Leibsohn referenced a woman in a House oversight committee hearing who had recently testified that having an abortion was the best decision she’d made and “an act of self-love.” “Think about what she just said,” Schweikert said. “You have a number of these [inaudible] that life means nothing, self means everything.” Leibsohn agreed as Schweikert went on.
“It’s about self. It’s about self. It’s about self,” said the Arizona congressman. “And you wonder why they hate the country because they only care about themselves.” He continued, “They hate their neighbors because they only care about themselves. They hate that baby because it symbolizes a responsibility.” Schweikert, who adopted a baby son in 2022, brought up what it was like holding his infant. He suggested Democrats would have let his son die.
[...] In another interview on Leibsohn’s show, in November 2022, Schweikert suggested that some people in “wealthy, white, well-educated” areas voted Democratic in the recent midterm elections because “President [Donald] Trump hurt their feelings.” He also claimed that women who don’t have children and aren’t married just vote for candidates based on what’s “trendy.”
During a July 2022 appearance on right-wing radio host Seth Leibsohn’s show on Phoenix talk station KKNT, Rep. David Schweikert (R-AZ) told Leibsohn that women who choose to get abortions “hate that baby” and “hate the country.”
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