They were hired to be the “conservative” voices on the wildly liberal set of ABC’s The View, but co-hosts Alyssa Farah Griffin and Ana Navarro have proven themselves to be anything but conservative or Republican as they often take up positions antithetical to the principals of the conservative movement. On Monday’s show, they kicked things off by demanding the GOP abandon the pro-life position and spewed misinformation about pro-lifers and the laws they passed.
Near the top of the show, moderator Whoopi Goldberg played a soundbite of Republican New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu on NBC’s Meet the Press blasting the pro-life position. “Every time Republicans start talking about abortion, we're losing,” he decried.
Farah Griffin has claimed Sununu has a strong chance to win the GOP nomination in 2024, so it was no surprise that she praised his disgust with pro-lifers. “Well, I just love Chris Sununu. He gets it. There’s just a lot of the Republican Party is leaning so far into, you know, wanting to place as many restrictions on abortion,” she huffed.
She went on to suggest she was “personally pro-life, but I believe in some access and some limitations,” but declared that being “pro-life can’t be a slogan. It can't be a hashtag on Twitter.”
That certainly didn’t sound like someone who puts principles first. Then again, she’s used to selling them out to the likes of The View and CNN, as former Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway told Farah Griffin to her face nearly a year ago.
The misinformation flowed as Farah Griffin pushed the debunked liberal trope that pro-lifers didn’t want anything to do with the mothers and babies after the birth:
If your goal is to have fewer abortions take place, then you need to come up alongside the most vulnerable moms and give them the support that they need. That means, you know, investing in paid parental leave, access to contraceptives, increased funding for foster care. You can't just talk about it, and be, like, “Oh, but we're not actually communicating what we expect you to do after we require you to have the child.”
So, I think it's a very welcome position to see prominent Republicans trying to find a place in the middle, but it is also untenable to just say you're against abortions, but you're not going to support women in other ways.
A few minutes later, Navarro referred to protecting unborn life as the “horrible consequences” of the overruling of Roe V. Wade. She then opened the floodgates for misinformation as she proceeded to rattle off supposed cases of pro-life laws harming women:
We've seen the 10-year-old rape victim who had to go from one state to another. We've seen the women who’ve had to carry children to term even though they had no skulls and were going to do the minute they were born. We've seen the women who’ve had miscarriages, that haven't been able to get the procedure because doctors are afraid of treating women. We've seen the lack of healthcare because doctors are afraid of being prosecuted and criminalized.
In reality, many of these scenarios were not the result of the laws but rather misunderstandings of the laws caused by the misinformation put out by the liberal media like ABC and The View.
Navarro also suggested “Republicans, like Ron DeSantis, keep” racing and “competing to see how low can you go in terms of” restricting abortions.
Such strong conservatives.
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The transcript is below, click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
April 24, 2023
11:02:38 a.m. Eastern(…)
GOV. CHRIS SUNUNU (R-NH): Every time Republicans start talking about abortion, we're losing.
[Cuts back to live]
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: So, what do you think?
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: Well, I just love Chris Sununu. He gets it. There’s just a lot of the Republican Party is leaning so far into, you know, wanting to place as many restrictions on abortion.
But I said right after the Dobbs ruling came down – I'm a Episcopalian, I’m personally pro-life, but I believe in some access and some limitations. But pro-life can’t be a slogan. It can't be a hashtag on Twitter.
If your goal is to have fewer abortions take place, then you need to come up alongside the most vulnerable moms and give them support that they need. That means, you know, investing in paid parental leave, access to contraceptives, increased funding for foster care. You can't just talk about it, and be, like, “Oh, but we're not actually communicating what we expect you to do after we require you to have the child.”
So, I think it's a very welcome position to see prominent Republicans trying to find a place in the middle, but it is also untenable to just say you're against abortions, but you're not going to support women in other ways.
(…)
11:05:20 a.m. Eastern
ANA NAVARRO: Here’s the thing. We're now almost a year out of the Dobbs decision. So, for the last year, we have seen some of the horrible consequences that came out of that decision. We've seen the 10-year-old rape victim who had to go from one state to another. We've seen the women who’ve had to carry children to term even though they had no skulls and were going to do the minute they were born. We've seen the women who’ve had miscarriages, that haven't been able to get the procedure because doctors are afraid of treating women. We've seen the lack of healthcare because doctors are afraid of being prosecuted and criminalized.
And instead of addressing those horrible consequences of Dobbs, Republicans, like Ron DeSantis, keep dialing it back and competing to see how low can you go in terms of -- you know, how much more can you restrict it.
Mind you, he passed – I talk about Ron DeSantis a lot. One, because I'm from Florida. But two, is because I feel he may be the nominee. And if he is, people need to know the things he's done in Florida because he’s going to want to do them federally. He just passed a six-week ban in Florida. Most women don't even know they're pregnant by six weeks. And yes, he signed the bill at 11:00 at night, without much fanfare, which is why I want to tell everybody what he's doing. Because it is not going to go in the middle of the night.
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