WASHINGTON — Rep. David Schweikert (R-Ariz.) said in a newly unearthed interview from 2022 that women who have abortions “hate the country” and “hate that baby” because they know if they carried their pregnancies to term, it would mean responsibility.
Schweikert, who is currently facing a tough reelection bid, made his comments in July 2022 on a conservative radio program, “The Seth Leibsohn Show.” During the interview, host Seth Leibsohn referenced a woman in a House oversight committee hearing who had recently testified that having an abortion was the best decision she’d made and “an act of self-love.”
“Think about what she just said,” Schweikert said. “You have a number of these [inaudible] that life means nothing, self means everything.”
Leibsohn agreed as Schweikert went on.
“It’s about self. It’s about self. It’s about self,” said the Arizona congressman. “And you wonder why they hate the country because they only care about themselves.”
He continued, “They hate their neighbors because they only care about themselves. They hate that baby because it symbolizes a responsibility.”
Schweikert, who adopted a baby son in 2022, brought up what it was like holding his infant. He suggested Democrats would have let his son die.
“I’m not being melodramatic, but I’m holding this little underweight baby that we’re worried about and realizing just a couple days earlier, when this child was in the womb, half this body, the majority of these Democrats, all of these Democrats would have been willing to have that baby die as long it was — had not passed through the birth canal,” he said.
“It’s harsh and it’s mean, but it’s true,” Schweikert added. “You need to embrace how sick society is and how sick the Democratic Party has become.”
Schweikert’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment. But weirdly, Leibsohn responded from his own email address and offered his perspective.
“It was clear to me then, as it is now (David and I speak often), and from the very context of my question and his answer, that ‘they’ or ‘a number of these folks’ (was about leftist radicals) for whom ‘life means nothing, and self means everything…they hate the country because they only care about themselves,’ and so on,” Leibsohn wrote in his email.
“‘A number of these folks,’ as David put it, is, after all, not a universal characterization,” said the conservative radio host.
Leibsohn did not…
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