Let's be honest. Allowing women to vote has destroyed this nation.

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[NoLibZone]

Allowing women to vote was the great mistake,

Prove me wrong.

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

I would gladly give up my right to vote if all the women in those pink pussy hats voting rights were taken away also!! I agree 1000% women are to damned emotional over things like mean tweets and killing babies in the womb!! We now have EVERY DAMN KIND of birth control imaginable there is NO LONGER a need to kill babies in the womb!! Abortion should NOT be a form of birth control, when Roe was passed women had no options for birth control, NOW women are just to damn lazy to be responsible…….SPIT!!!!

[Dilbert San Diego]

So in the world of Free Republic , we are supposed to take the position that women should not be allowed to vote?

[Jim W N]

No debate here.

[nickcarraway]

I hear people say that, but I can’t believe it. The only conservative senators ever elected were elected by voters. If they were picked by state legislatures, we never get more than a moderate.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Even if the 19th Amendment were repealed someday, individual states would still give women the right to vote.

Indeed ,,if you study the history of women’s suffrage, you will find that many individual states gave women the right to vote before the 19th Amendment mandated this nationwide.

[KC_Conspirator]

No comment.

[NoLibZone]

Of course not.

But we must realize the impact.

[usconservative]

Been here since 1998.

Been saying it since shortly after joining: End Women's Suffrage. Haven't they (and we!) suffered enough?!

[A strike]

What is really “stupid and pointless” is denying this truth as if it’s no fn big deal..

[rlmorel]

I agree. I think the 17th Amendment should be repealed. I think Trump did a great thing endorsing a return to the State Level of Abortion matters, because it is indisputable that is where this issue belongs.

One of the great things about our Constitutional Republic is that states can serve as laboratories where ideas can be tried out at the state level. If they work and people like it, they can move there from a state that doesn’t work.

The good ideas that cause state populations to grow increase their influence in government by gaining congressional seats, and those states that have bad policies lose population, and thus influence.

That system stopped working many many years ago, and I think the 17th Amendment that directed Senators be elected by popular vote (instead of selected by the state legislatures) removed much of the power from the states and made the experimental aspect of state-sponsored endeavors described above less of an advantage. It took power from the states and gave it to the Federal government.

So, yes. I agree.

[No name given]

Well said.

[Allegra]

I’ve said several times that as much as I would hate to do so, I would give up my right to vote to keep Karen and all of those stupid selfie-taking, purple-haired idiots and “Real Housewives”-watching soccer moms from voting.

[nickcarraway]

I think you have it backwards. First of all, Roe was never passed. It was a decision of the Supreme Court. Second of all, "the pill" had been around for more than 10 years when the decision came.

Roe wasn't decided because there was no birth control. It was made necessary because of birth control.

In her lifetime, Margaret Sanger never advocated for abortion, her Planned Parenthood advocated for birth control. Obviously, at that time there was no pill. P>Once "the pill" Was released to the public, that's when the push for abortion started.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Good to know,, that you can be a conservative in good standing here on Free Republic, and not want to revoke women’s right to vote.

Thanks.

[No name given]

Pronto.

[rbg81]

You are correct. But no one can say it out loud.

[Celerity]

Ann coulter said this.

But I even say that all voters should be land owners. Have skin in the game.

[Alberta's Child]

Gender isn’t the biggest factor. This country was better off when only property owners could vote.

[rbg81]

Im a single woman and I ALWAYS vote Republican..always have, always will

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Great. But you are the exception that proves the rules. Some women have a lot of common sense. But most don’t.

[nickcarraway]

Women in some states have the right to vote long before the 19th amendment, including some states that gave women the right to vote and certain elections. New Jersey gave women with more than $250. The right to vote in 1776, although they later took it back.