# I'm confounded that no one is asking about the two ABORTIONS that Wendy Davis had. Is she a liar? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 30, 2014, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-confounded-that-no-one-is-asking-about-the-two-abortions-that-wendy-davis-had-is-she-a-liar/699996 "2014-09-30T18:50:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kstarnes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4da419/32.png) [@kstarnes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kstarnes)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-confounded-that-no-one-is-asking-about-the-two-abortions-that-wendy-davis-had-is-she-a-liar/699996/1 "2014-09-30T18:50:02Z")
Wendy Davis wants to be governor, she has smartly gotten ahead of the potential bombshell of a potential story by revealing that she has had not one, but two abortions. A gentleman is not supposed to ask about a woman’s abortion but I’m no gentleman (and she’s no lady) and I suspect she’s lying. I can understand why a male politician wouldn’t want to touch this but the media should ask. She claims that she had two abortions for ‘medical’ reasons. Can this be verified? Here is what I suspect: She had two abortions because she wasn’t ready to be a mother. It wasn’t for medical reasons. She’s lying. She’s a liar. Isn’t it convenient that a decade later (with her life perhaps better settled, and now a decade \*older \*and wiser) she gives birth to two healthy girls? Congratulations to her, children are a blessing but she still lied. Wendy Davis wants to run as a straight talker but she’s not talking straight. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-confounded-that-no-one-is-asking-about-the-two-abortions-that-wendy-davis-had-is-she-a-liar/699996/2 "2014-09-30T18:52:55Z")
So go out of your no-girls-allowed treehouse and ask her for her medical records. I could use some entertainment. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-confounded-that-no-one-is-asking-about-the-two-abortions-that-wendy-davis-had-is-she-a-liar/699996/3 "2014-09-30T18:53:02Z")
Here’s the more important question: Why the hell is it any of your business, and what relevance does her reproductive history have to her ability to govern the state? ---
**Author:** ![kstarnes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4da419/32.png) [@kstarnes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kstarnes)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-confounded-that-no-one-is-asking-about-the-two-abortions-that-wendy-davis-had-is-she-a-liar/699996/4 "2014-09-30T18:54:36Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Here’s the more important question: Why the hell is it any of your business, and what relevance does her reproductive history have to her ability to govern the state? Wendy Davis made it a story, the public has the right to ask a few questions especially about public officials who have aspirations to be governor. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-confounded-that-no-one-is-asking-about-the-two-abortions-that-wendy-davis-had-is-she-a-liar/699996/5 "2014-09-30T18:56:03Z")
> [@kstarnes](#): > > She claims that she had two abortions for ‘medical’ reasons. Can this be verified? To the satisfaction of doubters? Probably not. > [@](#): > > Here is what I suspect: She had two abortions because she wasn’t ready to be a mother. It wasn’t for medical reasons. She’s lying. She’s a liar. Do you have any evidence that she’s lying? ---
**Author:** ![kstarnes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4da419/32.png) [@kstarnes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kstarnes)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-confounded-that-no-one-is-asking-about-the-two-abortions-that-wendy-davis-had-is-she-a-liar/699996/6 "2014-09-30T18:56:10Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > So go out of your no-girls-allowed treehouse and ask her for her medical records. I could use some entertainment. I think a media organization should ask her, they just need to step up and stop being cowards. It’s a legitimate question, Wendy Davis made it an issue. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-confounded-that-no-one-is-asking-about-the-two-abortions-that-wendy-davis-had-is-she-a-liar/699996/7 "2014-09-30T18:56:14Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Here’s the more important question: Why the hell is it any of your business, and what relevance does her reproductive history have to her ability to govern the state? Because if a woman is going to speak up for herself, **kstarnes** wants her to suffer for it. > [@kstarnes](#): > > I think a media organization should ask her, they just need to step up and stop being cowards. Ok. Say they ask her and she says her medical records are private, which they are. Now what? ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-confounded-that-no-one-is-asking-about-the-two-abortions-that-wendy-davis-had-is-she-a-liar/699996/8 "2014-09-30T18:57:05Z")
> [@kstarnes](#): > > Here is what I suspect: > [@](#): > > Wendy Davis wants to run as a straight talker but she’s not talking straight. Quite a leap there, don’t you think? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-confounded-that-no-one-is-asking-about-the-two-abortions-that-wendy-davis-had-is-she-a-liar/699996/9 "2014-09-30T18:58:38Z")
> [@kstarnes](#): > > I think a media organization should ask her, they just need to step up and stop being cowards. It’s a legitimate question, Wendy Davis made it an issue. Going by your posting history you are a misogynistic piece of trash, therefore whatever you think is properly dismissible. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-confounded-that-no-one-is-asking-about-the-two-abortions-that-wendy-davis-had-is-she-a-liar/699996/10 "2014-09-30T18:59:10Z")
Maybe her lifestyle involved drugs or alcohol, an argument against bearing a child. Would that count as a medical reason? In any event, the idea of _Republicans_ making an accusing of lying would be laughable but for the tragic stupidity of American voters. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-confounded-that-no-one-is-asking-about-the-two-abortions-that-wendy-davis-had-is-she-a-liar/699996/11 "2014-09-30T19:00:12Z")
> [@kstarnes](#): > > Wendy Davis made it a story, the public has the right to ask a few questions especially about public officials who have aspirations to be governor. What questions should they ask? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-confounded-that-no-one-is-asking-about-the-two-abortions-that-wendy-davis-had-is-she-a-liar/699996/12 "2014-09-30T19:00:54Z")
> [@kstarnes](#): > > Wendy Davis made it a story, the public has the right to ask a few questions especially about public officials who have aspirations to be governor. You have the right to ask. What makes you think you have the right to an answer? ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-confounded-that-no-one-is-asking-about-the-two-abortions-that-wendy-davis-had-is-she-a-liar/699996/13 "2014-09-30T19:04:34Z")
> [@kstarnes](#): > > Isn’t it convenient that a decade later (with her life perhaps better settled, and now a decade \*older \*and wiser) she gives birth to two healthy girls? Congratulations to her, children are a blessing but she still lied. According to [her memoir](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Davis_(politician)#Early_life.2C_education.2C_and_family), the abortions came _after_ her two daughters were born, and were due to an ectopic pregnancy and the fetus suffering Dandy-Walker syndrome. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-confounded-that-no-one-is-asking-about-the-two-abortions-that-wendy-davis-had-is-she-a-liar/699996/14 "2014-09-30T19:05:12Z")
Trolls gonna troll. Dopers gonna feed 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-confounded-that-no-one-is-asking-about-the-two-abortions-that-wendy-davis-had-is-she-a-liar/699996/15 "2014-09-30T19:07:09Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > According to [her memoir](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Davis_(politician)#Early_life.2C_education.2C_and_family), the abortions came _after_ her two daughters were born, and were due to an ectopic pregnancy and the fetus suffering Dandy-Walker syndrome. Yeah, but she probably still lied because [insert **kstarnes** “explanation.”] ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-confounded-that-no-one-is-asking-about-the-two-abortions-that-wendy-davis-had-is-she-a-liar/699996/16 "2014-09-30T19:07:25Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Dandy-Walker syndrome It’s always tragic when a fetus develops a monocle and walking stick during gestation. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-confounded-that-no-one-is-asking-about-the-two-abortions-that-wendy-davis-had-is-she-a-liar/699996/17 "2014-09-30T19:08:30Z")
> [@kstarnes](#): > > I think a media organization should ask her, they just need to step up and stop being cowards. It’s a legitimate question, Wendy Davis made it an issue. No, you’re wanting to make it an issue. Wendy Davis only made it public knowledge. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-confounded-that-no-one-is-asking-about-the-two-abortions-that-wendy-davis-had-is-she-a-liar/699996/18 "2014-09-30T19:08:38Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Dandy-Walker syndrome. Truly the most flamboyant of disorders. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-confounded-that-no-one-is-asking-about-the-two-abortions-that-wendy-davis-had-is-she-a-liar/699996/19 "2014-09-30T19:09:16Z")
> [@Larry\_Borgia](#): > > Trolls gonna troll. Dopers gonna feed 'em. Yeah, but this is still kind of a momentous occasion: **kstarnes** usually drops a turd-esque OP and then runs away. This time he posted a whole three times. It’s sort of like a Christmas miracle except it sucks. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-confounded-that-no-one-is-asking-about-the-two-abortions-that-wendy-davis-had-is-she-a-liar/699996/20 "2014-09-30T19:09:43Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > You have the right to ask. What makes you think you have the right to an answer? Maybe he’s with the LAPD. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-confounded-that-no-one-is-asking-about-the-two-abortions-that-wendy-davis-had-is-she-a-liar/699996.md?page=2)