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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah, sorry, his lumping Planned Parenthood into the "Establishment" was the final straw against him for me. They are and have been the stalwart against anti-choice attacks. Economic issues are obviously enormously important, but if I don't have the right to dictate what happens with my body, what do I have? And he just sort of waved away its importance.[/quote]

Thanks for this...my sister worked for PP for many years, sometimes risking her life to do so.  She hasn't worked there for a while, but she was still very moved by the attack in Colorado last year, and it brought back a lot of old emotions for her.  Planned Parenthood does amazing work, under near-constant attack both verbally and all-too-often physically as well.  To simply dismiss their views as irrelevant simply because they are large enough to have some clout with progressives and self-interested enough to factor in things like whether they think a candidate can effectively support their interests if elected is a slap in the face to anyone who is actually concerned about how policies impact people today.

I learned the hard way when I came to DC as a naive Hill staffer not to let the perfect be the enemy of the good policywise; and that effectiveness is about way more than ideology.[/quote]

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