Tucker Carlson on Alabama Abortion Ban: ‘That’s Called Self-Government
by Jeff Poor
It’s How Democracy Is Supposed to Work’
Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” host Tucker Carlson took on critics of Alabama’s abortion ban that was signed into law on Wednesday by Gov. Kay Ivey.
Carlson argued that despite Democrats and those in the media opposing the Yellowhammer State’s new law, the ban was an exercise in Alabama’s self-government.
Partial transcript as follows:
CARLSON: Abortion has never been popular in the state of Alabama. Since 1973, when a handful of Supreme Court justices imposed the most left-wing abortion regime in the world by fiat, voters in Alabama have strongly disagreed with the ideology of Roe v Wade.
Last night, after 46 years, they finally enacted their views into law. Lawmakers there voted overwhelmingly to ban most abortions in Alabama and by the way, just in Alabama, nowhere else — a law like this would not pass in Maryland, in New Jersey or Massachusetts or pick a state. It applies only in a state where a strong majority agrees with it, where it reflects that community’s values. That’s called self-government. It’s how democracy is supposed to work.
Our ruling class doesn’t care though they no longer believe in democracy. So the idea that somewhere, a thousand miles from Brooklyn in some little town in Alabama, there might be a person who disagrees with their views on abortion, or gun control or name a topic. That idea drives them completely insane. It eats at them. It keeps them up at night. It must be stopped.
Well, CNN is the network for people who feel this way who watches one of their anchors solicits advice on how to subvert the will of Alabama voters.