Several ironies here:
- Matthews is purportedly a Catholic, a church where abortion is a mortal sin without exception
- Jim Crow was a Democrat ad Jim Crow laws were instituted by Democrats
- Abortion disproportionately affects black people. in fact, Planned Parenthood was founded to target and eradicate the black population via abortion
With that, from NewsBusters:
Chris Matthews Compares Kansas Abortion Regulations to Jim Crow Efforts to Disenfranchise BlacksIn the warped mind of MSNBC's Chris Matthews, efforts to regulate the practice of abortion are morally equivalent to literacy tests in the South that were aimed at preventing African-Americans from voting.
The "Hardball" host made that puzzling and arguably insulting comparison on the June 30 program in a segment titled "What's the Matter with Kansas?"
"Kansas may be on track to become the first state in the country to put an end to abortion," Matthews told his audience yesterday, explaining that:
A new law requires the state's abortion providers to comply with strict new regulations that set equipment, temperature and space requirements, and the Associated Press reports that as of today, only one of the state's three clinics met those requirements. Two others were denied permission to operate, effectively shutting them down [when the law takes effect] tomorrow.
Before the commercial break, Matthews had promised "both sides" of the debate, but in truth supplied only one side, interviewing a left-leaning reporter and then an abortion rights activist.
Doesn't that just figure. The video:
Funny that Matthews never makes such a comparison to those trying to ban the 2nd amendment by fiat, such as Chicago where former mayor Daley required that every gun owner get training at a range, and then banned ranges from existing in the city.