A part of me wants Republicans to ban abortion. I want women to see I wasn't crying wolf.
Most Republicans just want Roe overturned and the issue sent back to the States. And in places like Alabama, plenty of women want to see it at least restricted if not outright banned.
I just wish women 18-39 knew this and voted based on this. Tell them this election is about overturning roe v wade.
It's the democrats job to sell women on this. If they don't do a good job then Trump will replace Ruth Bader Gingsberg. It's that simple. Women either want the right to choose or they don't. But they should be told that is at stake.
Most of the ones who would be terrified live in States that would never ban abortion anyway, or right now are even expanding the ability to get abortions to almost absurd levels.
The Dems sell Republicans as all wanting to ban abortions right now anyway.
It's only at stake in States where a majority of women probably are pro-life.
Federalism, it's a beautiful thing.
What would be "an absurd level"?
Women who are anti-choice are already exercising their right to choice. If they get pregnant, nobody in government is forcing them to have an abortion. That they want to deny other women the same choice is disgusting.
And half of them get abortions.
Think about that. Half of the women picketing abortion clinics have had abortions. It’s why they feel so guilty. Sorry they shouldn’t have gone through with it.
Most women carry the guilt the rest of their lives. Still they’d do it again if they were in the exact same situation. You can’t be anti abortion just because now you’re in a better place. Don’t forget the place you were in when you decided to get one
I’d say if women were honest 75% would be pro choice. Don’t ask a 50 year old who has money. Of course she would keep it.
On the whole, I tend to agree with you. But I must mention an issue that I never see discussed. You, as a male, are indoctrinated in a different manner, "man up," "don't cry," "you must kill them as they are enemies."
We females get an entirely different set of emotional manipulation. It is very much oriented in greeting-card sentimentality, cute babies, puppies, kittens.There is a whole cottage industry dedicated to manufacturing guilt among women.
I've never had an abortion, but I've known women who did, and also a dear friend who chose, although she was a type 1 diabetic, to go against her doctors' advice, and go through a pregnancy that she and her husband started despite an IUD. She almost died afterr months of bedrest..
There is no doubt in my mind that women who get an abortion are showered with this "oh, my dear, you must feel so bad, I'm here to help you with your mental-health issues following the loss of your baby," assuming that this person is suffering from them.
The overarching message is that "if you don't have them, you should."
All this amounts to is cold emotional manipulation. I have been in situations that genuinely made me cry, as a human being, but many of these women have been indoctrinated to feel guilt.
Long ago, there was a book called "The Managed Heart," which I never was able to get hold of. From what I heard, it dealt with women being told to smile," like flight attendents, or as Warren Jeffs said, "stay sweet.."