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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] I honestly wish the democrats would stop talking about abortion. Anyone who is open to understanding how disastrous the GOP is for women’s rights, health, and safety has already turned. [/quote]
It would be difficult for you to be more wrong about this. The Democrats didn’t talk about abortion enough in the previous decades and that’s what led us to where we are now. And public opinion has been turning and continues to turn against the right wing’s total bans, which produce terrible health outcomes for women with problematic pregnancies and is already resulting in a shortage of doctors of all specialties in those states.

Also, anyone who thinks they have a hot take on abortion here, have you read the Roe v Wade overturned thread? Because I guarantee your great wisdom has been discussed there.[/quote]
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OP blaming the Democrats for the lies of the Republicans is big “what was she wearing” energy. [/quote]

Op here. I am not blaming the democrats. This post was actually prompted by another post asking what democrats should do differently in their campaign. This is just what I wish they would do to improve messaging - speak to those of us who don’t see abortion as a black and white issue - like I said, untapped demographic. [/quote]
No, you’re not an “untapped demographic.” Do you trust women? Do you think they deserve the basic human right of bodily autonomy? Then you should [i]vote[/i] pro choice and [i]do with your own body[/i] as your conscience dictates. That’s your answer. You took a thousand words to scold the Democrats for your inability to feel okay with letting women run their own lives. [/quote]

This is the fundamental disconnect you will never understand because you don't make an effort to. Antiabortionists have the sincerely held belief that abortion is about TWO people, not just the woman involved. You can say that this is just the patriarch wanting to keep women pregnant in the kitchen, but all that tells me is that you don't know any antiabortionisrs and have never engaged with them, because that's not how they think.  [/quote]

Antiabortionists do not see the humanity in a pregnant person who does not want to spend 9 months gestating a zygote into being or to continue carrying a fetus that is going to die upon birth or kill its mother before then. Every pregnancy has the potential to kill or maim or permanently alter the person who carries it and therefore this must be the main factor in deciding the legality of abortion.

I have a sincerely held belief that a soul enters the body close to birth and so the growing fetus is a shell and not yet a person. Who are you to tell me that I am wrong? Nature kills off more than half of conceptions before they become fully formed into babies. You can never convince me god has endowed all those zygotes and fetuses with souls only to kill them off. My sincerely held belief has as much weight as yours when it comes to making a decision to donate my body to a potentially deadly process to turn a conceptions into a person fully endowed with god given rights. I get to make that decision, not you or your pastor. [/quote]

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