{"id":48901,"date":"2025-12-02T02:33:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T21:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/republican-whose-child-has-down-syndrome-opposes-redistricting-after-trumps-ableist-slur\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T02:33:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T21:03:57","slug":"republican-whose-child-has-down-syndrome-opposes-redistricting-after-trumps-ableist-slur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/republican-whose-child-has-down-syndrome-opposes-redistricting-after-trumps-ableist-slur\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican whose child has Down syndrome opposes redistricting after Trump\u2019s ableist slur"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nshorts-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nshorts-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-headline\">Republican whose child has Down syndrome opposes redistricting after Trump\u2019s ableist slur<\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-summary\">Michael Bohacek, an Indiana state senator, says US president\u2019s \u2018choices of words have consequences\u2019An Indiana Republican lawmaker whose child has Down syndrome has promised to oppose efforts to redraw the state\u2019s congressional map to favor his party after Donald Trump aimed a slur for people with intellectual disabilities at a political opponent.Michael Bohacek, a member of Indiana\u2019s state senate, wrote Friday on Facebook that he has been \u201can unapologetic advocate for people with intellectual disabilities\u201d since one of his daughters was born with Down. Referring to how the president used an ableist slur to insult Tim Walz, the Democratic Minnesota governor, a day earlier, Bohacek\u2019s post added, \u201cHis choices of words have consequences.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/01\/trump-indiana-state-senator-redistricting-vote\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nshorts-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-audio-section\" style=\"margin-top:15px;padding:10px;background:#f5f5f5;border-radius:5px\"><strong>Listen:<\/strong> <audio controls style=\"width:100%;margin:10px 0\">Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:5px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&#038;tl=en&#038;client=tw-ob&#038;q=Michael+Bohacek%2C+an+Indiana+state+senator%2C+says+US+president%E2%80%99s+%E2%80%98choices+of+words+have+consequences%E2%80%99An+Indiana+Republican+lawmaker+whose+child+has+Down+syndrome+has+promised+to+oppose+efforts+to+\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#0073aa;text-decoration:none\">\u2193 Download Audio<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts Republican whose child has Down syndrome opposes redistricting after Trump\u2019s ableist slur Michael Bohacek, an Indiana<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48902,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48901\/revisions\/48902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}