Amanda passes on this item from Media Matters. There’s even audio!
On the October 11 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, Bill O’Reilly falsely claimed that it “is never the case” that a “mother’s life is in danger” during the course of a pregnancy.
Guess Lauren was just being a hypochondriac, then.
Holy shit. Well, his cheese slid off his cracker long since, of course, but…dayumn. what an epic maroon.
Guess Lauren was just being a hypochondriac, then.
Well, yeah. I mean, obviously we can’t trust these wimminfolk to be trustworthy about whether they’re sick or something. They’re just too emotional, so they think that every little prick of pain is going to kill them. Thank God we have Dr. Loofah here to set the bitches straight.
Ooooh, does this mean we can now leave Bill O’Reilly on a deserted island for all eternity?
Who the hell does he think he is?
(That’s a rhetorical question)
Not to give him any credit at all, but he’s not that dumb. He’s lying. It’s a big difference, and it means that somebody can’t just hand him a book and change his mind. It’s the usual right-wing operation against facts and science. Saying “doctors and c-sections can solve all the health problems associated with abortions” is a talking point, and for people without any first-hand experience, it’s going to work.
What a fucking asshole.
Can someone suggest to the AMA that his license be revoked? I’m pretty sure that he could be construed as giving medical advice that is so far outside of standard medical practice that it is considered harmful (especially since he is lending authority to the statement by reminding people of his credentials.)
Maybe there should be some sort of campaign….
Dear AMA, Please revoke Dr. Pepper’s medical license immediately.
Am I the only one who thinks Dr. O’Reilly and Dr. Frist should team up? I mean, what a killer combo…
Not only that, but I don’t think that the particle accelerator O’Reilly built is going to work either.
And so was my sister, who had an ectopic pregnancy a few years ago, as was my other sister, who had preeclampsia (and ended with an emergency c-section and a nasty infection that caused some problems after), and also my diabetic cousin who had to be induced 6 weeks early because her body just couldn’t handle it anymore.
O’Reilly is a total asshole.
Um… has he never heard of ectopic pregnancy, for one? Very painful, fatal without an abortion. This is exactly why we need Sex Ed in schools.
Please tell me no one takes him seriously anymore.
Did he learn this from the nuns, the way they used to teach that women couldn’t get pregnant from rape?
And you know, responsible OBGYNs have pregnant women come in for check-ups every month, then every two weeks, then every week as the pregnancy progesses just for fun. Yessiree, pregnancy is risk free!
How long before O’Reilly responds with the old cannard: “if abortions were done for health reasons, they would be done in hospitals rather than specialized abortion clinics who’s sole function is to make a profit” (as if people like him are so Marxist they think profit is evil? as if these people have never heard of MRI clinics, oncology clinics, etc.?).
I dunno about O’Reilly, but I grew up in a relatively conservative area, and even in our sex ed they at least did the old “soft-ball through a tight sock” demonstration about childbirth. Does he not see how, if you actually wanna keep the kid-to-be intact (rather than aborting it before the fetus is full sized, or when the fetus pretty much is, sucking it’s brains out) kinda might put the mother-to-be at risk during the delivery process, if not earlier.
If O’Reilly has a cancer that is sucking away his bodily resources, he should have to keep those cells (after all, they are human cells, right? how are they different than an blastula, which is also a bundle of cells? yet the anti-abortion crowd generally believes in blastula rights or claims to so believe) in his body and not try to kill them …
Arseholes like O’Reilly are the equivalent of chickenhawks in the abortion wars: they want to force others to undergo a life-threatening ordeal which they will never have to experience. I say people like O’Reilly should be paired up with a pregnant woman and be forced to, as much as possible, have the same experiences (no drinking for 9 months, carrying around that much weight, pain equivalent to childbirth inflicted at the end, if the mother-to-be dies, “kill Bill” so to speak) — then, people like O’Reilly can talk about whether abortion should be legal. Until then, they can keep their mouths’ shut. For every woman rendered permanantly disabled from pregnancy/childbirth, maim a hardocre anti-abortionist … and then see how long their “no health exceptions” POV lasts.
Chickenhawks, pro-lifers … they complain about “limousine liberals”? Well, I’m tired of righty-tighties pushing policies and wars that place the lives and bodily integrety of others on the line while they don’t have to experience the same risks. Put your life/body where your mouth is or shut the $#%* up!
Two words.
Placenta Previa
Oh, and the more C-sections you have, the greater chance that you’ll have placenta previa later *and* that you’ll die from it, according to this study.
And fun things like uterine rupture too. That’s what almost killed my mother around the time of my birth.
This guy is nuts. I didn’t know he was actually a doctor.
He’s not.
You women, always complaining about something. If it’s not fear of societally-sanctioned sexual violence or widespread disenfranchisement, it’s a lack of decent OBGYN care and the resultant possibility of death. It never ends with you.
(What a douchebag.)
(Apologies to all the fine, upstanding douchebags I just insulted)
Unfortunately, Kim, I have a roommate who does. And the other cranks too. I can hear Michael Savage on his radio right now.
Another thing to hate about this: After going on his completely misinformed and arrogant diatribe, Bill then brings in an even more reactionary wingnut so he appears reasonable and moderate. Another example of Fox News’ idea of “balance.”
If I believed in hell, I’m pretty sure there’d be a special section designated for the likes of O’Reilly, Coulter, Limbaugh, etc.
Today on a job I’m on, I got into a conversation with a painter who, for all intensive purposes is a middle class working man, not a rich man by any stretch. We got onto competition in the trades and he went on a rant about illegals and about how ‘they should be Americans first’ blah, blah, blah. Nothing I said could stop him from his prescripted, thoughtless parroting of all too familiar phraseology, while wearing his goatee, earring and apparently enjoying the fruits of the wicked liberal’s past efforts at decent working days and freedom of self expression.
Guess where he gets his information? Guess who he is convinced is his enemy number one?
Then the plumber comes in as I continue hard on the push that the Rethuglicans will always, have always and will never stop representing business interests over that of the common citizen. What does he say? “Kate, you know the Republicans are your friends, they are on our side.”
Guess where he gets his information? A devoted Fox O’Leilly syncophant.
The fascist right has taken over and taken the hearts and minds of the dupable and ignorant, taken it with lies, exaggerations and hate mongering.
The only thing that surprises me anymore is that I actually find every now and then a liberal among the working classes, it is rare and ever more so. O’ Lielly is just a modern form of Goebells, which has been split into about a hundred different mouth pieces bleating their backward propaganda for anyone who will listen, sign-on and vote their army closer and closer into power.
Its not what they say that bothers me anymore that I can’t even bear to look at too closely — its like constant screeching of the same tone — its the fact that they gain an audience. I wonder how soon it will be before we find the humanist ideals we take for granted completely squashed, outlawed and ourselves hunted down like dogs or chased out of the country.
Oh. That would be my problem with reading sarcasm.
Wyomeg:
According to Dante, it’s the 8th circle (Malebolge), Bolgia 6, reserved for hypocrites. Sentence: to wander listlessly wearing a cloak of gilt lead. Or possibly Bolgia 9, sowers of discord. Sentence: hacked apart by demons, only to have the wounds heal so he can be hacked apart again.
Not only that, but I don’t think that the particle accelerator O’Reilly built is going to work either.
True, but that’s probably because the particles he’s using are just graham cracker crumbs brushed off his desk.
Thanks Erin! I think I like Bolgia 9 a little better. They all fit both pretty well, but I think the discord they sow contributes to more evil, or permission towards evil, in our society.
Interestingly, when the otherwise largely useless Mayor Bloomberg decreed that all interns and residents at City hospitals (who account for some humungous percentage of all doctors in the country) would be required to learn how to perform abortions as part of their OB/GYN rotations (with conscience outs), folks like O’Reilly bitched about it.
So, I guess my great-grandmother didn’t really die of eclampsia, leaving my grandmother motherless at age 5.
Boy, that changes my family history! My grandmother wasn’t raised by a stepmother who undercut her self-esteem and her self-image and preferred her birth son, thus she didn’t feel the need to marry my domineering grandfather!
Thank you, O’Reilly, for saving my grandma from a life of codependency to an alcoholic!
IS there a poll anywhere that shows how many people really hate O’Reilly and his screeds? I think debunking the myth that this asshole has popular support among decent people is important.