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Mike Pence's 'Joke' About Pete Buttigieg's Parental Leave Is Insulting on So Many Levels

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, Pence delivered a line about Buttigieg taking time from work to care for his newborn children like some kind of lady, with a side of disdain for postpartum depression. “When Pete’s two children were born, he took two months maternity leave, where upon thousands of travelers were stranded in airports, the air traffic system shut down, airplanes nearly collided in midair,” Pence said. “I mean, Pete Buttigieg is the only person in human history to have a child and all the rest of us get postpartum depression.” This content can also be viewed on the site it from.Might I remind you, this comes from the mouth of a grown man who and who, as governor of Indiana, once signed an anti-abortion law that would have mandated .

More to the point, in the United States—maternity, paternity, paid, unpaid, or otherwise. Currently, , and we have at all. This is despite the fact that studies indicate that , and that the U.S.

ranks 33rd out of 36 developed countries for infant mortality. The 47-year-old celebrated his return to the golf course with a cheap period joke.

Hilarious.By In response to Pence's unambiguously gross (not to mention unoriginal) joke, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre released a statement demanding an apology from the so-called pro-life champion of family values. “The former vice president’s homophobic joke about Secretary Buttigieg was offensive and inappropriate, all the more so because he treated women suffering from postpartum depression as a punchline,” Jean-Pierre said, per . “He should apologize to women and LGBTQ people, who are entitled to be treated with dignity and respect.”There's a fat chance of that, according to Mike Pence's former chief of staff Marc Short, who scoffed at the Biden.

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