Anonymous wrote:👏👏👏 to this comment on the above absurdity:
"Their defeat in Virginia, oddly enough, is a promising sign." Oh, it is not! And it is not a messaging problem either. Women in this country LOST a 50-year right to bodily autonomy and reproductive health care, which has increased domestic anxiety, economic uncertainty, and the real possibility they could be physically as well as emotionally harmed by either a wanted or unwanted pregnancy. Late term abortions, the boogeyman of the right, are 1% of all abortions and are not performed in this country except in the most extreme and heartbreaking of circumstances. We have had to put up with lies about abortion risks, punitive access laws, excessive costs, and the imposition of singular religious positions - and we gritted our teeth and did what we (and our health care professionals) could safely and sanely chose to do for our health and well-being and that of our families. So, for Youngkin to turn around and try to half-heartedly give back some arbitrary percentage of that previous full right to self agency while engaging in lies, misinformation, moral panic, and the callous disregard for OUR health and personhood is abominable. We do not agree with this position just because you want it and say so. We shudder at what you have already done and are struggling with our options. Under these circumstances a 15-week ban is not a "compromise" or a "generally agreed to" position. It is an offer from an abuser to take a step back (for which we should be "grateful") so they may establish a new "normal" from which the return to a fuller loss of rights may be a shorter plunge.
ESPECIALLY the bolded part.