KY Rep says stupid things about Jewish people and abortion
Mar 4, 2022 16:35:53 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2022 16:35:53 GMT
Maybe he could throw in a reference to CRT or LGBTQ folks and go for a trifecta!
"Kentucky Rep. Danny Bentley made comments about Jewish women and the Holocaust during a debate Wednesday over anti-abortion legislation, quickly drawing condemnation from several members of the Jewish community who raised serious concerns with what he said....
As state representatives debated an omnibus anti-abortion bill Wednesday afternoon, Bentley spoke about the medication abortions the legislation would restrict and invoked Jews and the Holocaust as he made claims about the origins of one such medication, which members of the Jewish community quickly denounced as both false and antisemitic.
Bentley falsely said RU-486, or Mifepristone, one of two pills taken to induce abortion, was developed during World War II and was called Zyklon B, the gas that killed millions of Jews in the Holocaust.
He added that “the person who developed (it) was a Jew.”
Referring to an earlier floor amendment that attempted to allow Jewish women to be exempt from the abortion restrictions in the bill — with the Democrat who filed it, Rep. Mary Lou Marzian of Louisville, saying the faith does not believe life begins at conception — Bentley then opined on his perception of the sexual habits of Jewish women, “since we brought up the Hebrew family today.”
“Did you know that a Jewish woman has less cancer of the cervix than any other race in this country or this world?” Bentley asked. “And why is that? Because the Jewish women only have one sex partner… They don't have multiple sex partners. To say that the Jewish people approve of this drug now is wrong.”
Referring to the company that made RU-486 and again referring to the Holocaust, Bentley further asked: “Why would they do it? Because they're making money on it.”
No one responded to Bentley's comments during the abortion debate that lasted about two hours.
Sen. Karen Berg, D-Louisville, a physician and the only Jewish member of the legislature, listened to Bentley’s speech and was outraged by both the falsehoods and the fact that people of her religion were even a subject.
While the person who developed RU-486 was Jewish, she noted that this occurred in the 1980s.
“The first clinical trials on this drug has nothing to do with World War II (and) has nothing to do with the Holocaust,” Berg said. “That the developer was indeed of Jewish descent... what difference does that make? And why is that being brought up on the floor?”
As state representatives debated an omnibus anti-abortion bill Wednesday afternoon, Bentley spoke about the medication abortions the legislation would restrict and invoked Jews and the Holocaust as he made claims about the origins of one such medication, which members of the Jewish community quickly denounced as both false and antisemitic.
Bentley falsely said RU-486, or Mifepristone, one of two pills taken to induce abortion, was developed during World War II and was called Zyklon B, the gas that killed millions of Jews in the Holocaust.
He added that “the person who developed (it) was a Jew.”
Referring to an earlier floor amendment that attempted to allow Jewish women to be exempt from the abortion restrictions in the bill — with the Democrat who filed it, Rep. Mary Lou Marzian of Louisville, saying the faith does not believe life begins at conception — Bentley then opined on his perception of the sexual habits of Jewish women, “since we brought up the Hebrew family today.”
“Did you know that a Jewish woman has less cancer of the cervix than any other race in this country or this world?” Bentley asked. “And why is that? Because the Jewish women only have one sex partner… They don't have multiple sex partners. To say that the Jewish people approve of this drug now is wrong.”
Referring to the company that made RU-486 and again referring to the Holocaust, Bentley further asked: “Why would they do it? Because they're making money on it.”
No one responded to Bentley's comments during the abortion debate that lasted about two hours.
Sen. Karen Berg, D-Louisville, a physician and the only Jewish member of the legislature, listened to Bentley’s speech and was outraged by both the falsehoods and the fact that people of her religion were even a subject.
While the person who developed RU-486 was Jewish, she noted that this occurred in the 1980s.
“The first clinical trials on this drug has nothing to do with World War II (and) has nothing to do with the Holocaust,” Berg said. “That the developer was indeed of Jewish descent... what difference does that make? And why is that being brought up on the floor?”
He probably got sent articles like this: www.lifeissues.org/1995/03/ru-486-hoechsts-connection-jewish-holocaust/ And decided to legislate based on misinformation and his misunderstanding of what he'd read.
"“Bentley appeared to be conflating multiple narratives, and Jews,” The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported. “A German Jewish scientist, Fritz Haber, helped develop the cyanide gas, Zyklon B, in the early part of the 20th century as an insecticide. Haber, a Nobelist in chemistry, died in 1934, years before the Nazis used the gas to commit genocide.”
RU-486 wasn’t developed until the 1980s.
Bentley also referred to Baulieu’s reported consideration for a Nobel prize in chemistry in 1989 for his work on RU-486, which was met with strong resistance from anti-abortion activists. "
RU-486 wasn’t developed until the 1980s.
Bentley also referred to Baulieu’s reported consideration for a Nobel prize in chemistry in 1989 for his work on RU-486, which was met with strong resistance from anti-abortion activists. "
Just another ignorant rep elected by ignorant people. This is what happens when you preference your bronze age beliefs over history and science.
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