March for Life Speaker Uses Damar Hamlin's Cardiac Arrest As Proof Abortion Should Be Banned
By: Tori Otten (The New Republic)
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March for Life Speaker Uses Damar Hamlin's Cardiac Arrest As Proof Abortion Should Be Banned
Former NFL coach Tony Dungy thought he did something with this analogy.
Screenshot via March for Life YouTube
One of the keynote speakers at the anti-abortion rights March for Life on Friday invoked football player Damar Hamlin, who is recovering from cardiac arrest, as an analogy for why abortion should be banned.
Buffalo Bills safety Hamlin collapsed during a nationally televised game on January 2 after he was struck in the chest, stopping his heart. He was hospitalized for nine days, and while he has made a remarkable recovery, his spokesman says the 24-year-old has a long way to go.
Pro Football Hall of Famer Tony Dungy somehow decided this was the perfect comparison to banning reproductive freedom. While speaking at the March for Life, the first since Roe v. Wade was overturned, Dungy argued that because everyone came together to hope that Hamlin would live, they should also hope that people won't choose to get abortions.
Former NFL coach Tony Dungy invokes Damar Hamlin's cardiac arrest as he calls on Americans to pray for an end to abortion:
"Every day in this country, innocent lives are at stake. The only difference is they don't belong to a famous athlete, and they're not seen on national TV." pic.twitter.com/RR6G6c5VfE — The Recount (@therecount) January 20, 2023
There is, of course, no comparison. Hamlin suffered a medical tragedy. Abortion is a private decision. And it's worth noting that in spouting off about innocent lives at risk, Dungy makes no consideration for the life of the pregnant person, whose entire world might be negatively upended by the arrival of a child.
Since the loss of the nationwide right to abortion, restrictions on reproductive rights have been growing ever tighter. This week alone, Kansas lawmakers introduced a bill that would allow counties and cities to ban the procedure, undermining a vote last year by state residents, and Arkansas introduced a bill that would let prosecutors charge people who get abortions with homicide.
This kind of twisted logic coming from Dungy isn't a surprise. The former NFL coach is extreme in his views. He has for years advocated against LGBTQ rights, and this month spoke at an event hosted by a deeply anti-LGBTQ preacher. The day before coming to Washington, D.C. for the march, Dungy said that public schools are giving litter boxes to students who identify as cats. This is a widely debunked far-right conspiracy theory that stems from a refusal to let trans kids use the bathroom they want in school.
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Never knew Tony Dungy was such a right winger. He should stick to Sunday Night Football.
He is and has been for quite some time, he is also outspoken about gay people.
You're right he should stick to football.
“I bet if Dungy took a knee during the National Anthem…”
…his current supporters would just as quickly abandon him. This is the fractious, dysfunctional world in which we find ourselves.
If’s, and’s or buts…
“Thanks for missing the irony in someone posting Dungy should stick to football.”
’Football’? This has nothing to do with football. It is in dissecting a comment that is ridiculous in in its content and context. He has every right to state his opinion, as do you, as do I. If we could all agree to that, without the obligatory obfuscations, we would all be better served.
Pray for me in my dereliction…
In other words, you want to censor his right to free speech....to have his sincere opinions about abortion and the freedom to express them.
It seems the left wingers want to silence anyone disagrees with their misguided views about abortion. Maybe left wing male sportscasters should stick to talking about sports
There never was a Constitutional right to unlimited abortion and the power to regulate this medical procedure was rightly handed back to the states
Where did anyone say anything about censoring him?
You clearly implied as much, John.
Lefties have a hard time tolerating views that differ from their own.
No, you implied as much.
Is this a joke? 'Righties' have a harder time dealing with literature that doesn't whitewash history. Y'all run around bleating 'the woke are coming, the woke are coming'.
And lefties have a reputation of rewriting history to conform to their ideology.
“And lefties have a reputation of rewriting history to conform to their ideology.”
Substitute ‘white evangelicals’ for ‘lefties’ and you have a point. The only ‘reputation’ they enjoy is in refutation and retaliation.
Ah, look at that, you're playing the 'revisionist' card ... @!@ ... All subjects are revised Greg, it's one of the wonderful things that comes from learning. A broader and deeper perspective is born leading to new questions whose answers lead to newer questions, and the beat goes on. Over 60,000 books have been written on the Civil War which averages out to 400 per year since that 'scuffle' ended. It would surprise me if even one was devoid of (oh the horror) revisionism.
But revisionism Also includes dishonest attempts to rewrite the historical record for an ideological purpose, making it Anti knowledge.
“…attempts to rewrite the historical record for an ideological purpose, making it Anti knowledge…”
…just guessing you weren’t consulted.
Say something interesting, once.
It can also lead to denialism which has become a main ideological path of the 'modern' right.
Great player, great coach, good man.
Therefore, the triggered must hate on him.
Must hate.
and he’s Black, so the democrats outrage will be trebled.
Oh yes, I missed that. A black conservative ..... so he deserves an extra helping of scorn from our friends on the left.
I mean ..... the nerve of him ....
Do you think the case of Damar Hamlin is analogous to abortion?
What he said is fucking retarded.
His playing and coaching career has nothing to do with it, nor does the color of his skin.
Opinions do vary. In this country he is entitled to his opinion same as you.
One persons retarded in another persons reasonable.
And the color of his skin does matter. Too many on the left that is. They love to pull the Uncle Tom gambit on people like Dungy simply because he doesn’t tow their party line. Such bigotry is obvious to any unbiased observer.
oh the whining has arrived.
Wonder how he feels about some wanting the "black man" to be seen and not heard... how he could be considered to be "uppity"....
Dungy, you fuckin idiot. Honest to god what a dumb comparison.
Dungy, good man. Don’t let the haters get you down. They’re just running low on butt cream these days with supply chain difficulties.
Speak your mind, fuck em ....
And fuck him.
The culture warriors at it again...
Seems to be the only thing they have....
Yeah, the left wing has gone nuts attacking dungy. Have to deflect from Biden somehow.
Does the hatred ever leave your heart?
Does projecting ever get old to you?
I am not the one saying people are attacking some jackass.
Guess what, when people make public statements, they should expect public blowback.
What, do you think he should be protected, able to say whatever he wants without those evil Dems around to say something back....
Also bringing up Biden in every fucking conversation...
Agreed and the triggered reacting to it should expect the same.
Free speech is a great thing .... until one is triggered by it and melts down.