{"id":41190,"date":"2014-01-21T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41190"},"modified":"2014-01-21T06:13:53","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T12:13:53","slug":"abortion-barbie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41190","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Feminist Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wendy Davis &#8211; &#8220;Abortion Barbie&#8221;, the lefty pinup girl who shut down the Texas legislature with a screaming mob of ignorant infanticide buffs &#8211; will be campaigning for Al Franken on the &#8220;War on Womyn&#8221; slate.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 812px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"    \" src=\"http:\/\/static1.businessinsider.com\/image\/51d1e21a6bb3f7b35800002a\/why-the-rise-of-wendy-davis-could-actually-spell-trouble-for-texas-democrats.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"802\" height=\"601\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wendy Davis. Trophy wife, baby-death advocate, Al Franken supporter.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Her bio &#8211; the inevitable &#8220;nineteen year old single mother who worked her way through Harvard&#8221; &#8211; is the sort of &#8220;Strong Womyn!&#8221; narrative that seems to have been snatched from the Lifetime Network.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, yeah &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/politics\/headlines\/20140118-as-wendy-davis-touts-life-story-in-race-for-governor-key-facts-blurred.ece\">it&#8217;s fudged just a bit<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic;\">Davis was 21, not 19, when she was divorced. She lived only a few months in the family mobile home while separated from her husband before moving into an apartment with her daughter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A single mother working two jobs, she met Jeff Davis, a lawyer 13 years older than her, married him and had a second daughter. He paid for her last two years at Texas Christian University and her time at Harvard Law School, and kept their two daughters while she was in Boston.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hey, wait! \u00a0&#8220;Trophy Wife&#8221; doesn&#8217;t fit the narrative! \u00a0What the&#8230;?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When they divorced in 2005, he was granted parental custody, and the girls stayed with him. Wendy Davis was directed to pay child support.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In a state where women can normally win custody after killing someone, that says something.\u00a0 The first husband went on to run for office as a Republican.<\/p>\n<p>Davis apparently gave her second husband the brown helmet the day after she graduated from Harvard.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway &#8211; Abortion Barbie will be coming to Minnesota to campaign for Franken&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;unless she made that up, too.<\/p>\n<p>Please, Al Franken campaign.\u00a0 I beg of you.\u00a0 Bring Abortion Barbie to Minnesota.\u00a0 Feature her up at the podium with you.<\/p>\n<p>Wendy Davis is the face of feminism today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wendy Davis &#8211; &#8220;Abortion Barbie&#8221;, the lefty pinup girl who shut down the Texas legislature with a screaming mob of ignorant infanticide buffs &#8211; will be campaigning for Al Franken on the &#8220;War on Womyn&#8221; slate. Her bio &#8211; the inevitable &#8220;nineteen year old single mother who worked her way through Harvard&#8221; &#8211; is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,27],"tags":[279],"class_list":["post-41190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-men-and-women","tag-infanticide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41190"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41193,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41190\/revisions\/41193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}