The Louisville Courier-Journal reports:
Kentucky Rep. Danny Bentley made comments about Jewish women and the Holocaust during a debate Wednesday over anti-abortion legislation, quickly drawing condemnation from several members of the Jewish community who raised serious concerns with what he said.
Bentley falsely said RU-486, or Mifepristone, one of two pills taken to induce abortion, was developed during World War II and was called Zyklon B, the gas that killed millions of Jews in the Holocaust. He added that “the person who developed (it) was a Jew.”
Read the full article. Bentley went on to claim that Jewish women have a lower incidence of cervical cancer because “they only have one sex partner.”
Kentucky Jewish leaders react after third legislative incident in the past week, this time a GOP lawmaker making false remarks connecting abortion medication to Holocaust and Jewish women’s sex habits amid abortion debate: https://t.co/kOK0kjWdgX via @courierjournal
— Joe Sonka ? (@joesonka) March 3, 2022
Kentucky lawmaker says RU-486 is the same as Zyklon B and goes on bizarre rant about Jewish women’s cervixes and FFS it’s only 9am. https://t.co/KOPkXFWpBP via @courierjournal
— Liz Dye (@5DollarFeminist) March 3, 2022