Abortion rights have won in every election since Roe v. Wade was overturned
Abortion rights have won in every election since Roe v. Wade was overturned
Abortion has been on the ballot in seven states since June 2022. In each instance, anti-abortion groups have lost.
Abortion has been on the ballot in seven states since June 2022. In each instance, anti-abortion groups have lost.
They didn't overturn abortion, they overturned a right to privacy. Much more scary when you think of it like that
Are you claiming that they overturned the 4th amendment?
Yeah, pretty much. Look at how stupid-state AGs are demanding women's health records from sane states. https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/republican-state-ags-are-seeking-state-medical-records-rcna94935
It's the ultimate example of the dog catching the car. People took the right to choose for granted and the conservatives used is solely as a campaign tool to raise money. Now that that people have woken the fuck up they're realizing how harmful abortion bans are to a women's health and how demeaning it is to say that women can't make their own decisions when it comes to their own body. The Dobbs decision have put Republicans in an impossible position and are almost certainly going to cost them elections statewide and federally for the foreseeable future.
no one woke up. they realized that they'd be personally affected by it, and changed their minds.
That's basically the definition of "woke up" in this context.
That's a distinction without a difference.
Having a central dictating authority over every state is fascist and evil.
this is an absolute meme of an argument
should states have the right to execute people who are the wrong religion?
if no, then what's the difference between that and allowing them to ban a life-saving operation on what boils down to religious grounds?
Thats an argument against federalism itself lol
And it is no doubt a facetious argument, they don't actually believe that they just say it but what they mean is they want us for only them to have that control
Makes you wonder if the corporate elite class uses this issue (and other) just as a tool for control. Easy divide and move a population back and forth on hot push button topic. Meanwhile the top 1 percent.. investment bank continue to hoard all wealth as we see it stripped away by inflation.
I will vote for a glib, anti union, pro corporate generic candidate because he / she “strongly” supports (or not) abortion.
Yes this is a cynical take and the abortion issue is important … just cannot shake the issue is in a continual cycle to keep people divided, distracted as they get poorer and work harder.
Abortion rights do great on ballot measures, but not as well in general elections.
Yeah, most people support abortion rights, but those who oppose them are the most powerful single-issue voting block in the country.
Pro-choice people rarely base 100% of their vote on abortion. A pro-choicer who holds conservative beliefs on other issues generally votes Republican, but will vote in favor of abortion rights on a ballot measure.
Pro-lifers are different. They sincerely believe that abortion is mass murder of children, and that all other political issues combined don't matter in comparison. A pro-lifer who holds liberal views on every other issue generally votes Republican.
And yet they are inconsistent on companies that pollute air food and water. Somehow when corporations do it knowingly for the profit motive it's God's will despite causing miscarriages and birth defects en masse.
It's not that all of them support these companies. It's that they literally believe children are being murdered and that until they can permanently put a stop to the legal murder of children, no other political issues matter AT ALL. They're the single-issue voting group that is really, truly single-issue, and they're massive.
If Biden were anti-abortion due to his Catholicism while Trump was pro-choice, how many pro-choice Democrats would have voted for Trump? Almost none.
Meanwhile, millions of pro-lifer Republicans would have voted for Biden.
It doesn't matter.
Democrats are never going to kill the golden goose. The Roe leak alone made them $80,000,000 in contributions. Being anti-choice accomplishes the same objective for Republicans: lots and lots of money, money that candidates can legally pay themselves by making loans to their campaigns at 20% interest.
LOL at the downvotes.
So, so many voters in absolute denial here. We could have real change if the 49% that votes Democrat voted Green instead. The Greens would actually try to get you legal abortion at the federal level, too.
The closer you can get the government to the people, the more they can be held accountable
by what metric?
any argument you can make for it being easier to justly oust them from power can also be made for it being easier to unjustly keep them in power
That’s why the power should flow upward, not downward
while a lovely, pithy statement, this has absolutely nothing to do with your argument, and doesn't really mean anything in this context
If this keeps up, 2025 is going to be lit.
In what way?
I'm thinking the good if this keeps up is the Republicans will lose a lot of seats. Of course the bad is Dems will be in charge. So it balances out to being lit.