It's a blog on reason.com. It says so. Right there in your link.
And again you assume everyone is dumb and just reads Roy Moore ads and infowars for their information. In an interview with Chuck Todd, he was asked to explain his stance on limitations to abortion and what limits he was in favor of. He would not reply with any limitation - only that he supported a woman's right to choose until the baby was born. But when the baby was born, he was all about some right to life.
I noticed you didn't provide a link on that little excerpt you provided there.
What you quoted is actually a fun exercise of how to know if your source is biased or not.
The parts in bold are
actual quotes from that interview. Everything else is "coloring" or "rephrasing" what he said in a way that makes him say what the author wants to say he said. You can tell by the quotation marks, and the lack thereof.
In the Sept. 27 MSNBC interview, host Chuck Todd asked Jones about abortion.
Jones said he's a "firm believer that a woman should have to freedom to choose what happens to her own body" and that he opposed a ban on abortions after the 20th week of gestation, which is a bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives and now under consideration in the Senate.
Alabama law allows abortions to be performed as late as 22 weeks into a pregnancy.
"I'm not in favor of anything that is going to infringe on a woman's right and her freedom to choose," Jones said in the MSNBC interview. "That's just the position that I've had for many years. It's a position I continue to have. But I want to make sure people understand, that once a baby is born, I'm going to be there for that child. That's where I become a right-to-lifer."
Notice that everything he
ACTUALLY said is milquetoast standard-issue liberalism.
Notice that he
did not say:
and that he opposed a ban on abortions after the 20th week of gestation, which is a bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives and now under consideration in the Senate.
He may have been asked that, but he chose not to answer that question and instead just went with the generic "I'm not in favor of anything that is going to infringe on a woman's right and her freedom to choose", which is a position that at least 50% of the country agrees with, like it or not.
That is what the author wants you to read into what he actually said.
By the way, the Chuck Todd is not "another interview", it's the same interview at the center of the reason "blog" I posted.
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