Posted on 11/18/2023 8:23:44 PM PST by chickenlips
You’ve undoubtedly heard that Republicans have found themselves, as Caroline Vakil relates over at The Hill, in “political quicksand when it comes to abortion,” evidenced by underwhelming performances at the polls since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
The end of Roe was a pyrrhic victory for Republicans, say both forlorn conservative squishes and giddy leftist pundits. The suggestion by both is that Republicans underestimated Americans’ appetite for laws allowing babies to be slaughtered in the womb by the tens of thousands each year. SNIP>>>>>>>>>>
Among these voices is Jon A. Shields at The Atlantic. He suggests that “abortion foes” dreamed that the end of Roe would pave the path to a “more pro-life America,” but “that’s not how things are panning out.” He contends that as soon as Roe was overturned, “voters turned against the pro-life cause everywhere they could, resulting in even some red states legalizing protections for abortion.” He further suggests as evidence that Republican presidential candidates who “might have pressed for sweeping abortion restrictions” in previous cycles are instead “advocating for a 15-week limit, a policy that would protect the large majority of abortions.”
Is it true that we do not live in a more “pro-life America” today than we did prior to the overturning of Roe? SNIP>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
With regard to the question as why this anomaly occurred, the answer is almost certainly the phenomenon known as “abortion tourism.” Almost immediately after the Supreme Court handed the decisions on abortion back to the individual states rather than the federal government, corporate leviathans began incentivizing employees in states where abortion was curtailed to get pregnant and abort their children as an annual vacation package.
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Regardless of what people say most women and honestly a lot of men want abortion to be legal at, at least some level. If you have a daughter or a son of a certain age you want the option. It’s birth control of the last resort. What I have seen though is older women who have daughter in their thirties who want grandchildren who become more pro-life as the watch the clock tick down. What this gives you is a strange dichotomy of being publicly pro-life in polls and surveys, but pro-abortion on a personal level. They vote from their personal level. So, while polls show we are nominally a pro-life country in the voting booth we vote to keep it legal. If The GOP n is going to be drug into a political fight over this issue and trust me the democrats are going to try to make every election moving forward all about abortion to energize the young female vote, they need to focus their efforts on common sense restrictions on abortion and pointing out the extremism of the Left on the issue, but not a total ban. That will never be supported by a majority of people.
We will all be pro-choice.
We will not!
I'm not going to die on the hill of, "What America needs are more <75 IQ welfare ghetto babies from unwed Shaniquas."
There are much greater hills we can die on.
I know I won’t!
For the babies not murdered it is a win.
I will not. To my dying breath, I will not.
OUR ONCE FINE COUNTRY IS GONE!
DEPRAVITY to the MAX!!
That’s where I’ve been for a few years now. I could elaborate, but ...
Anyhow, abortion won’t lessen or end unless hearts are changed, and we’re headed in the wrong direction for that to happen any time soon.
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