# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![Stringbean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Stringbean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stringbean)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 3:41pm 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/699996/101 "2014-10-01T15:41:10Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > As opposed to say Dan Patrick? > > Or Rick Perry who rode Bush’s coattails to the governor’s mansion and switched from (D) to (R) at a convenient time? > > There are precious few people running for high office in Texas who aren’t opportunists. You just happen not to like this one but still trying to justify it as something even remotely objective. That’s not happening. Nothing wrong with just plain not liking somebody, but don’t trying to pass it off as something more noble than it really is. Ted Cruz suddenly claiming he’s a Tea Partier and nearly shutting down the federal government was opportunism on a more shameless, pandering level. I don’t like him, and I have reasons for it just like I do with Wendy Davis. Sorry if she’s your gal, she ain’t mine. Satisfied? ---
**Author:** ![Stringbean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Stringbean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stringbean)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 3:42pm 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/699996/102 "2014-10-01T15:42:27Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > I wonder if it’s possible to abort a straw fetus before it grows up into a strawman. If it were, I’d certainly feel obligated to address it 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 3:54pm 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/699996/103 "2014-10-01T15:54:14Z")
> [@Stringbean](#): > > If it were, I’d certainly feel obligated to address it 🙂 As ‘partial grass abortion,’ I expect. Anyway in case you somehow missed this point, nobody said Davis shouldn’t be asked any questions. They said her medical records aren’t the public’s business, or said ‘who cares?’ to the entire thing. Maybe some posters have said both. She never declared the topic off-limits. The point here is that the OP, for trollish reasons or just because he’s an asshole, said she’s lying and demanded she prove him wrong. Oh, and he didn’t know any of the basic facts about the situation and hadn’t looked, and we all know he wouldn’t accept any facts presented to him anyway. In other words, it’s a day ending in Y. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 4:21pm 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/699996/104 "2014-10-01T16:21:21Z")
I think we can all agree that the real question is exactly how many cubic yards of placenta were expelled, and why no one has managed to correctly model the process using washers and paper rings. Yadda yadda sheeple. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 4:27pm 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/699996/105 "2014-10-01T16:27:26Z")
> [@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. Yeah, but why is it always you? ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 4:31pm 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/699996/106 "2014-10-01T16:31:52Z")
> [@Stringbean](#): > > If it were, I’d certainly feel obligated to address it 🙂 123 Fake Street ---
**Author:** ![Stringbean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Stringbean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stringbean)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 5:01pm 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/699996/107 "2014-10-01T17:01:12Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > As ‘partial grass abortion,’ I expect. Anyway in case you somehow missed this point, nobody said Davis shouldn’t be asked any questions. They said her medical records aren’t the public’s business, or said ‘who cares?’ to the entire thing. Maybe some posters have said both. She never declared the topic off-limits. The point here is that the OP, for trollish reasons or just because he’s an asshole, said she’s lying and demanded she prove him wrong. Oh, and he didn’t know any of the basic facts about the situation and hadn’t looked, and we all know he wouldn’t accept any facts presented to him anyway. In other words, it’s a day ending in Y. OP’s a clown and by appearing to defend his position I look clownish too. I did also invent a strawman so maybe I am a clown. At any rate, Wendy Davis isn’t running from the issue so I applaud her for that. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 5:18pm 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/699996/108 "2014-10-01T17:18:50Z")
> [@](#): > > The centerpiece of the new law is without a doubt the 20-week abortion ban … But keep in mind that’s in fetus weeks, not regular weeks. At 20 weeks, it’s a teenage fetus. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 5:22pm 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/699996/109 "2014-10-01T17:22:16Z")
Anyone else ever wonder how many male governors, senators, and representatives have been party to pregnancies that were aborted. :::silence, silence, silence::: Yeah, that’s what I figured. Anyone want to bet me how many posts it takes before someone says "But-but-but…what if those men didn’t _want_ the abortions to happen? ---
**Author:** ![DrumBum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e79b87/32.png) [@DrumBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrumBum)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 5:46pm 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/699996/110 "2014-10-01T17:46:33Z")
> [@kstarnes](#): > > 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. I think I can help you out. You see Sen. Davis is an adult and occasionally adults encounter a crisis that requires agonizing decisions to be made. While I thankfully have not had any family members go through what Sen. Davis went through, I am quite sure that she had close friends and family to help her out. Discussing it with the media or self righteous dingbats like yourself were correctly not considered as an option. No doubt my interpretation of the events Sen. Davis went through will continue to confound you but perhaps you can marshal a few brain cells and think about what she was going through at the time. We adults call this “empathy.” You should give it a try. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 5:52pm 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/699996/111 "2014-10-01T17:52:46Z")
Yeah, well, this is a guy who does “research” on Stormfront. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 6:08pm 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/699996/112 "2014-10-01T18:08:51Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Anyone else ever wonder how many male governors, senators, and representatives have been party to pregnancies that were aborted. > > :::silence, silence, silence::: > > Yeah, that’s what I figured. Well, I came name at least [one](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/15/scott-desjarlais-abortion_n_2139110.html). ---
**Author:** ![kstarnes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4da419/32.png) [@kstarnes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kstarnes)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 9:44pm 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/699996/113 "2014-10-01T21:44:48Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Yeah, well, this is a guy who does “research” on Stormfront. The research is real, I’m writing a book it. Stay tuned. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 9:46pm 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/699996/114 "2014-10-01T21:46:05Z")
> [@kstarnes](#): > > The research is real, I’m writing a book it. Stay tuned. Do you need a title? I suggest _I’m Totally Not a White Supremacist: A story of how I hate women, but nobody else_. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 9:52pm 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/699996/115 "2014-10-01T21:52:24Z")
> [@kstarnes](#): > > The research is real, I’m writing a book it. Stay tuned. And how will you feel if people dismiss what you write as self serving lies because they don’t like you? ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 9:53pm 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/699996/116 "2014-10-01T21:53:26Z")
**kstarnes** , it’s because her medical history is a **private** matter between Wendy Davis and her doctors, and the media have no right to it. Neither do you. ---
**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:** [October 1, 2014, 9:53pm 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/699996/117 "2014-10-01T21:53:28Z")
> [@kstarnes](#): > > The research is real, I’m writing a book it. Stay tuned. But you’re really stupid. Isn’t it hard for stupid people to write books? ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 10:04pm 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/699996/118 "2014-10-01T22:04:19Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > But you’re really stupid. Isn’t it hard for stupid people to write books? [Nah](http://www.amazon.com/Going-Rogue-American-Sarah-Palin/dp/0061939897/ref=la_B002QW385O_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1412200998&sr=1-2). ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 10:09pm 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/699996/119 "2014-10-01T22:09:12Z")
> [@Mr.Miskatonic](#): > > Once again the party of ‘minimal government’ and ‘minimal intrusion into our lives’ becomes psychotically obsessed with someone’s uterus. Again with that canard :rolleyes:. A uterus is a \*public \*space ! We the People have EVERY RIGHT to know, judge, inquire about, opine on and legislate what is going on in any given uterus, the ownership of which belongs to the community ! At any given time ! With pictures ! (yes, I\*\*'m \*\*taking the piss, if you have to ask) ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 10:18pm 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/699996/120 "2014-10-01T22:18:10Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Again with that canard :rolleyes:. A uterus is a \*public \*space ! We the People have EVERY RIGHT to know, judge, inquire about, opine on and legislate what is going on in any given uterus, the ownership of which belongs to the community ! At any given time ! With pictures ! [Point / Counterpoint](http://www.theonion.com/articles/us-out-of-my-uterus-vs-we-must-deploy-troops-to-je,11546/) [Previous 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=5) [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=7)