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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Youngkin supports a full ban on abortion / abortifacients. Period.

Until he can get that he will chip away at women’s rights. [/quote]

Repeating a lie over and over doesn’t make it come true. Period. 
If only your statements were as good as your persistence. [/quote]

DP.  He is on video acknowledging that he supports a full abortion ban.  Can you cite to any statements he has made to support abortion access?  “I will compromise at 15 weeks because I don’t it’s politically viable right now to go further” does not count as supporting abortion access.

If you cannot, I will take that ad a concession that Youngkin supports a ban on abortion. [/quote]

Conveniently leaving out that he supports abortion is cases of rape, incest, and life of the mother. But we all know, it wouldn’t benefit you to tell the whole story. [/quote]

Those exceptions are meaningless in practice, because either you have to leave it completely to the discretion of the woman and her health care provider whether they apply (in which case the ban would be meaningless because everyone could get around it based on the inherent risk of pregnancy), or the process for qualifying for an exception has to be so onerous that basically no one will meet the standard so the exceptions don’t have any effect. [/quote]

If there my are meaningless in practice and he didn’t support it, you’d be fake raging. But he does support it and you try to dismiss it. Nothing makes you happy. 
You can’t have it both ways. [/quote]

He doesn’t “support” exceptions. He sees exceptions as a short-term way to chip away at women’s rights. Until he has the general assembly. 
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You admit that he supports exemptions. [/quote]

He supports exemptions that are exemptions in name only and do not, as a practical matter, allow women to access abortion when they need it.  And the only reason he is claiming to support these exemptions is because he knows he would be unelectable if he said otherwise since a lot of voters don’t think critically about this issue.

Let’s put it in concrete terms.  I had pre-eclampsia with both of my pregnancies, and after the second was advised to never have another child because the risk to my health would be too great.  If I found myself pregnant tomorrow, regardless of how, do you think Youngkin would support me getting an abortion right away based on the potential risk to my life?  Or would I have to wait until I was having active seizures and going into organ failure before anyone could consider whether to terminate my pregnancy, even though at that point I wound likely die even with termination?

If I would have to wait for the latter, then then supposed “exemption” is meaningless.  [/quote]

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