Do black lives matter in abortion debate?

 National Review:

At the Georgia Senate debate Friday night, GOP candidate Herschel Walker denied the recent allegations that he paid for an ex-girlfriend’s abortion, and he challenged “pro-choice pastor” and incumbent Democrat Raphael Warnock to square the high black abortion rate in the state with his support for “Black Lives Matter.”

“He told me Black Lives Matter,” Walker said of his opponent. “There’s more black babies aborted than anything, so if black lives matter, why are you not protecting those babies?”

Walker was asked to address the bombshell report, released by the Daily Beast last week, of an anonymous woman who claimed Walker paid for the abortion of a child they conceived together. “That is a lie,” he said, before pivoting to Warnock’s unapologetic support for abortion. Walker has declared repeatedly that he is pro-life. However, last week, his son Christian Walker took to the Internet to proclaim that he was “done with the lies,” condemning his father as a hypocrite for pretending to be a “family man” even though he allegedly abandoned him in childhood.

Asked whether he would support any limitations on abortion, Warnock dodged and doubled down on his catchphrase defending the so-called right to choose: “A patient’s room is too small a place for a woman, her doctor, and the U.S. government.” Warnock accused the “extremist Supreme Court” of robbing this essential liberty from women overnight.

Walker retorted that his rival “did not mention that there’s a baby in that room as well.” Warnock’s analogy is additionally flawed, Walker argued, because he is advocating government intervention to federally subsidize abortion. “He’s asking the government to pay for it, so he’s bringing the government back into the room,” Walker said.
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I think Herschel Walker made the better arguments.  Hopefully, Georgia voters will come to the same conclusion.  Warnock is having to defend liberal Democrat positions.

See, also:

Investigation Now Underway After Bombshell Report Drops on Raphael Warnock

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