Posted on 08/02/2024 5:42:27 AM PDT by daniel1212
“We will fight for reproductive freedom,” Harris told a crowd of staff, “knowing if Trump gets the chance he will sign a national abortion ban to outlaw abortion in every single state.”
Harris’s campaign has abortion rights activists — already desperate to see the Democrats win – electrified and rushing to endorse her. It also puts Republicans into a bind.
Fighting against reproductive rights has long been a winner for the GOP. But now, that fight has become the party’s kryptonite...
For the first time in a generation, abortion rhetoric was largely absent from the Republican National Convention earlier this month. The party’s platform, adopted at the convention, apes Trump’s “leave it to the states” stance on rather than calling for a national abortion ban.
But activists worry those hints at moderation are more about politics than they are about anything that would happen in Trump’s second term.
Project 2025, a Trump policy blueprint drafted by leading conservative and right-leaning Christian groups, calls for extreme new restrictions on reproduction care,...
Trump has...refused to say whether he would sign a national abortion ban or a law to give full legal rights to every fertilized egg.
Meanwhile, Harris had been the Biden administration’s most outspoken messenger on abortion rights. She has undertaken a reproductive freedom tour, speaking in Jacksonville, Florida the day that state’s six-week abortion ban took effect and becoming the first president or vice president to visit a clinic that performs abortions (a Planned Parenthood in Minnesota).
There is widespread support for abortion rights in America...
Where Biden, despite his platform, has been squeamish about even saying the word “abortion,’ Harris “fully embraces this idea that all abortions, no excuses, no explanations needed, should be between the patient and the doctor,” [Kaitlyn] Joshua told the Star.
The anti-Kelly Ayotte ads in NH all say “if she is elected she will ban abortion in all 50 states”.
That she is a RINO squish and that Senators don’t ban anything is unimportant.
Abortion is a killer issue (in more ways than one), but it only cuts one way.
“ They would probably think differently is it were phrased as,
“We will fight for reproductive freedom the right to kill unborn babies,”
Wrong.
The foundational issue for the huge pro-abortion majority is “F who you want, when, where, and how you want, and require society to deal with the consequences”.
It may have struck you as a paradox that the loudest and most militant pro-abortion organized groups are homosexuals.
It’s not a paradox at all once you recognize the issue that is the core of pro-abortion advocacy.
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