When it comes to priorities, you’d think a person like actress Alyssa Milano who paints herself as a compassionate leftist who cares about protecting the innocent and vulnerable in this country would actually do something to prove their commitment.
Such is not the case with Milano, who on Thursday put a disturbing twist on an old, tiresome liberal argument about the death penalty vs. abortion.
2020 presidential candidate and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) posted a Tweet yesterday noting she was prepared to take executive action if elected president on the issue of gun rights, because “thoughts and prayers are not enough”
As president, I will give Congress 100 days to get their act together and pass reasonable gun safety laws. If they don’t, I will take executive action. Thoughts and prayers are not enough. We need action.
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) July 26, 2019
Milano responded that she was fully on board with that idea. But another Twitter user reminded her of her support for abortion, which has killed far more innocent lives than gun violence:
Murdered like ya PLANNED PARENTHOOD? Murdered like THAT? Is that what you mean?
— Cocolano (@Cocolano1) July 26, 2019
The pro-abortion mouthpiece did not like that reminder, and fired back by suggesting pro-lifers were hypocritical on the issue of life by referencing the recent reinstatement of the federal death penalty by the Trump administration, and declaring that death row inmates are “actual people”, unlike unborn babies:
Your administration just reinstated the death penalty and scheduled 5 executions of *actual* people. You’ve lost the right to pull your, “pro-life” narrative-talking-point- bullshit with me. https://t.co/oDDaYG8JjX
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) July 26, 2019
She was promptly called out on her phony (and disturbing) comparison by other Twitter users:
Here's a short thread with some information regarding those five *actual* people you're championing over the lives of unborn people. https://t.co/PnBFV5CHUA
— Aldous Huxley's Ghost™ (@AF632) July 26, 2019
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No unborn child committed any crime, much less one worthy of the death penalty. Those who face that end had their shot, and made their choices. They chose poorly. Some crimes are so heinous that society demands the ultimate price.
— Don Hemphill (@DoubleH820) July 26, 2019
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By *actual* do you mean a man who beat an 80 year old woman, who suffered from polio, to death with a hammer and then later went on to rape a 16 year old girl repeatedly, kill her, dismember her body, and then set it on fire?
— Courtney Shaye (@Courtney_Shaye9) July 26, 2019
Have you ever actually read the cases of what crimes people committed that led them to be sentenced to death?
Equating the awful things that convicted murderers did to deserve their sentence to unborn children is… not quite the same thing.
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) July 26, 2019
The arguments did not phase Milano, however. She doubled down in the comments:
Right.
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) July 26, 2019
Bless her heart.
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— Based in North Carolina, Sister Toldjah is a former liberal and a 15+ year veteran of blogging with an emphasis on media bias, social issues, and the culture wars. Read her Red State archives here. Connect with her on Twitter. –
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