Dems including AOC mock Texas Gov. Abbott after ‘ignorant’ remark on abortion and rape

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) says Texas Gov. Greg Abbott should learn a thing or two about how a woman’s body works before speaking out about abortion and rape.

Dropping some Sex Ed 101 knowledge, AOC debunked Abbott’s claim that the state’s new blanket ban on abortion after six weeks doesn’t really force rape victims to give birth to their attackers’ babies.

“Sad that in 2021 I have to explain to a GOP Governor that: 1. “6 weeks pregnant” = 2 weeks late for your period 2. Periods are late all the time from stress, diet,etc 3. Most people know their rapists,” AOC wrote on Twitter.

Ocasio-Cortez lashed out after Abbott used some spurious logic to defend the controversial new law that effectively bans abortion in the Lone Star State.

The so-called Texas “heartbeat law” outlaws terminating a pregnancy after six weeks from conception, without allowing exceptions for rape or incest.

But Abbott asserted that the law does not force a woman to give birth to their rapist’s child because the victim could legally get an abortion before the six-week deadline.

As AOC pointed out, many women, wouldn’t even know they are pregnant until later in the pregnancy, effectively forcing them to carry the baby to term.

“GOP want(s) to have more control over your body than you do, so here we are,” Ocasio-Cortez added.

White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki also mocked Abbott for suggesting that Texas women don’t have to worry about bearing a rapist’s child because he has a surefire plan to “eliminate all rapists.”

“If Gov. Abbott has a means for eliminating all rape or all rapists from the United States, then there’d be a bipartisan support for that,” Psaki said.

The debate at the intersection of politics, women’s rights and basic biology puts Abbott on the defensive even as he basks in the support of conservative Republicans in Texas and elsewhere.

Abbott faces a potentially tricky reelection fight in 2022. The potential presidential hopeful has recently promulgated measures that the GOP right-wing base loves like the abortion ban, allowing open carry of handguns without permits and a restrictive voting law designed to limit turnout among people of color.

Discussing rape and abortion restrictions has previously backfired on otherwise popular pro-life advocates.

Onetime Rep. Todd Akin (R-Missouri) lost a 2012 U.S. Senate race after questioning if a woman can get pregnant from “legitimate rape.” In the same year, Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock said when a woman is impregnated during a rape “it’s something God intended.”

Both men narrowly lost their election bids.