Julia Ioffe deletes tweet after posing the questions, 'What if you could perform an abortion with an AR-15? What if the 19 kids killed [in] Uvalde weren't children, but fetuses?'
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Puck founding partner and Washington correspondent Julia Ioffe apparently deleted a tweet in which she had juxtaposed the topic of a recent school shooting with the issue of abortion.
"What if you could perform an abortion with an AR-15? What if the 19 kids killed [in] Uvalde weren't children, but fetuses?" Ioffe wrote in the now-deleted post, a copy of which has been posted by Fox News.
Guns and abortion have both been in the news lately.
On Tuesday, an 18-year-old man carried out a deadly shooting at Robb Elementary, a school in Uvalde, Texas — he reportedly utilized an AR-style firearm during the attack.
And earlier this month, news broke about a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that indicates the high court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, a move that would enable states to enact abortion bans.
Many on the political right are pro-life and also oppose efforts to implement gun control measures.
"This won’t change anything, just as Sandy Hook didn’t. In America, women are less important than babies, and babies are less important than gu... (Read more)
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https://twitter.com/juliaioffe/status/1529351599189008384
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