[Ads-l] Early QOTY candidate

[Wilson Gray]

> > “Right now, in a number of states, the laws allow a baby to be _torn_
from
> > his or her mother's womb in the ninth month,” Trump said. “It is wrong.
> > It has to change.”

> Killjoy.

_Still_ seems like a good QOTY candidate to me. "_Torn_ from the womb in
the _ninth_ month"?! WTF is that supposed to mean? Does he want to outlaw
caesareans?

On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 1:36 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> Killjoy.
>
> > On Jan 21, 2018, at 9:44 AM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> > Actually, a misstatement from the written statement: "torn".
> >
> > DanG
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 7:42 PM, Jonathan Lighter <
> wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> A typo for "borne."
> >>
> >> JL
> >>
> >> On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 4:25 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> “Right now, in a number of states, the laws allow a baby to be born
> from
> >>> his or her mother's womb in the ninth month,” Trump said. “It is wrong.
> >> It
> >>> has to change.”
> >>>
> >>> —President Trump yesterday, addressing anti-abortion marchers at their
> >>> “March for Life”
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