It may be news to Samantha Bee, but opposing late term abortions is not an extreme position.
That’s one of the problems Democrats are having. Whenever a Democrat is in office for awhile they get overconfident and start calling even the status quo extreme and their positions mainstream.
We need to find out who sold him Kevlar shoes.
Are we talking about the same John Kasich? He opposes first trimester abortions except in a few cases (rape, etc.). No, I’m not suggesting he’s violated the law Roe-v-Wade, just informing you of his preference. Under his leadership, more anti-abortion than any other Governor, Ohio has created a number of obstacles to abortion, even discouraging non-surgical abortions. He led the way in both the defunding of Planned Parenthood and mandatory ulrasounds.
He doesn’t have Trump’s raw sexual magnetism.
According to Kasich, the “majority community” is making gains in infant mortality, but since it isn’t being improved in the black community, it must be the black community’s fault.
Sounds like something Obama would have said and won praise for. But since Kasich said it…
Why would Obama ever say that a problem in the black community is the fault of the black community?
I seriously doubt that Obama would say something that implied that the death of a new mother’s child is the fault of the black community.
That’s one of the ways he vaulted over all the other African-American politicians who had been in politics longer than he had, yet were not considered Presidential prospects.
Kasich’s statement only implies such a thing if you interpret it in the most uncharitable way possible, something you have never been prone to do to Democrats’ statements.
Not sure how else to interpret it. It’s an absurd statement - infant mortality rates have always been a measure of the availability of medical service and things like that, not about the character of the community.
It’s not PC to suggest that a community take responsibility for the consequences of its destructive counter-culture.
Kasich said, “the community itself is going to have to have a better partnership with all of us to begin to solve that problem with infant mortality in the minority community.”
What exactly is he talking about? What is the minority community’s specific failure?
I guess he could have just blamed Medicaid, although the international experience shows that availability is not the whole story:
Britain and Canada are in theory 100% universal, single payer, but lag some other countries that do not have single payer, as well as some countries that are poorer. Now it could be that racial disparities are a similar problem there, but I doubt the state is discriminating against minorities in those places as far as access to health care. The doctors would have to be doing it.
What Kasich seemed to be referring to was that the government, as in Medicaid, and minority communities need to work better together. Minorities aren’t being as diligent at getting prenatal care seems to be his actual insinuation.
According to this cite, African-American and Latino women do actually delay seeking prenatal care compared to white women:
And that couldn’t have anything to do with their respective economic positions, now, could it?
I didn’t realize Chester County could stand in for the entire country.
Does the reason really matter?
Yes it is likely for a couple of reasons - one of which will undoubtably be economic affordability (another is likely access and availability of convenient care)…
The thrust though is to acknowledge
a) Yes - this is a problem
b) Something needs to be done about it
c) Any solution will involve both the community in question and the providers of care
Why is that so controversial?
Sure it could. If only we could solve the problems of poor communities by making them wealthier. Or maybe, as Kasich said, we could try to ameliorate specific problems through better partnerships. Even if we assume a particular problem isn’t a community’s fault, it still won’t get solved without their help. Turning a poor, dysfunctional community into a middle class, productive community isn’t something government just does to people. The current President would be the first to say that it takes people getting involved in solving their own problems. Of course, he can say that. Kasich can’t.