Colin adverse -- Don't tag me. The cliff notes are vote DEMOCRAT.
I don't agree with abortion either. It absolutely should be a last resort. However, while I am anti abortion/prolife I am also pro-choice, and no, this is not a contradiction.
It may or may not have started out differently, but the most vocal "Pro-Life" advocates are actually just Pro-BIRTH. In many cases, being anti-abortion is a means to be legalistic and punitive toward women who dare have sex outside of marriage and flaunt Christian values. It's not about saving lives, it's about controlling behaviors such as premarital sex. To many, they see making access to birth control and education as giving permission to sin. They see giving food assistance as letting sinners escape the consequences of their actions, and refuse to extend grace and mercy to people who have fallen short. If they were actually about reducing abortions, they wouldn't be anti-contraceptive. This also has links to white genocide groups, but we don't need to go there.
Instead of supporting women and families to make sure they have food and healthcare, proper contraceptives to be able to choose when they get pregnant, time after time these "pro life" people support candidates who are against this and complain about their taxes supporting lazy welfare queens because the candidates wrap their opposition to these things in biblical phrases. "Life is important. Children are a gift from God. Abortion is a sin." Then, as soon as the baby exits the birth canal, the mother is a sinner who should have made better choices and kept her legs closed. Now she needs to to work and get off the government teat. She made her bed, now she has to lie in it. She needs to learn her lesson. They can't wait to see the woman punished for not living right and saving herself for a godly marriage union in the first place. After all, how will others learn the lesson of what not to do if a woman does all the wrong things, and still prospers or has a decent life?
Folks in the past, even around here in the house of RAW, NO PULLOUT, want to throw up Margaret Sanger and try to shame me for being black and Christian and supporting democrats, though technically I consider myself independent, but if people were TRULY pro life, they would vote dem. Democrats want to make the entire American life experience better and attainable, from birth- to death with dignity.
Dems want you to have a living wage to be able to afford to take care of a family without working so many jobs you never see them or are too tired to spend time with them, educate, raise and guide them properly.
Dems want you to have affordable healthcare so you can afford to have the baby and get medical care during and after birth.
Dems want you to have paid family leave, so you can spend time with your family if a crises arises, and have time to bond with your child when s/he is first born.
Dems want women to have workplace protections so they can return to work after giving birth and affordable childcare so you can work and have your children looked after in a safe environment.
Dems want people to have affordable contraceptives and to be educated about reproductive health to know how to use birth control properly and have it available to prevent unwanted pregnancies in the first place. Abortion should be rare.
After one retires, Dems want people who have worked hard all their lives but may not have a savings to be able to eat and have an income to survive via social security, medicare and medicaid, and when the time comes, to die with dignity.
If pregnancy could not have been prevented for whatever reason, would I prefer someone to put their child up for adoption or given to a family member to raise? Yes. Though they still would have medical bills, the work and medical leave issues etc, which I mentioned above. We know from before that women were having unsafe abortions with coat hangers and unsafe/unclean place which often caused not only the loss of the child, but the mother as well. I don't want to go back to those times. This will always dis-proportionality affect poor people, because the wealthy can always discretely pay to end their problems. Until all these issues are mostly resolved, I am going to remain pro-choice and trust the mother and her doctor to make the best decision for her own situation. In some families, one more child is the difference between being slightly food insecure, to everyone starving. Yet I am still not "pro-abortion," no one is PRO abortion. I'm just realistic.
People used to hit hard times, get on welfare for a few months and get off. Then GOP propaganda made black folks and other people of color the face of abuse of the system and talked people into standing idly by while they made the system difficult transition away from, and even navigate in the first place, because the perception was they were stopping black folks from getting over on the system. There was a time one could start working and then end assistance. Now, I'm told, if one wishes to get off assistance and try to start working, they end benefits immediately, including health care. I don't know if that changed after the ACA passed or not.
The same thing happened with Covid. Covid19 has revealed that they aren't pro-life. Many can't even bring themselves to utter the phrase "Black Lives Matter." When black folks became the face of the pandemic deaths, no one wanted to care anymore and everyone wanted to open back up. Their lack of compassion is their own downfall. Red states are being hit hard with Covid. Now that millions of people are out of work, they are finding out the system is not made for living large, only to barely survive and the systems in place to make it harder for black folks and PoC, is making it hard for them, too. They voted to cut their own safety nets. They weren't worried about death panels, like they claimed when congress was trying to pass the ACA. The same ACA that GOP congress members who have tried to end it are now telling their constituents to sign up for, since so many have lost their employer healthcare. We know this because as soon as Covid ended their ability to get hair cuts, go to bars and gather in large numbers, Grandma and Grandpa became expendable. Now their children are expendable, too.
If the country had actually listened to Obama, passed and strengthened the polices he wanted to put into place, we would have weathered this entire pandemic and come out in a much better place.
If you want actual POLICIES that support LIFE and FAMILY, not just the RHETORIC, vote PRO-FAMILY which means to Vote DEMOCRAT. Put the policies in place that eliminate the "need" for abortion outside of rape or incest, and I'd actually support anti-abortion legislation.
It's been several years, but I've voted republican in the past. I also know black Trump supporters exist. I have some in my own family. Two for religious reasons, one who recently became involved in following politics and is getting fed a bunch of RW BS and conspiracy theories. Heffa sent me a video of Dinesh D'Souza. I laughed my ass off. I told her next she'll be following Candace Owens. You know what she replied? "Ooohhh I love Candace." Seriously. She mentioned George Soros and Bill Gates about something, too. Six months ago, outside of Bill Gates, she had never even heard of these people. Thankfully, most of the rest of my family is sane, but I still have friends who saw Trump as appealing because of his anti-Muslim and anti-Immigrant stance. There are a bunch on this board who agreed with him for the way he attacked other races, also.
The republicans who are still supporting Trump are not the run of the mill republicans. Either they have drunk the koolaid or their political futures are so intertwined with his that his win is the only way they stay in office. They are learning their lessons they hard way also, because after all his demands for loyalty, and seeing how he has screwed any and everyone except maybe Michael Flynn and Roger Stone, they still thought he would financially support their reelections like past candidates, and are finding out the hard way he won't.
Any of the sane republicans, like the ones behind the Lincoln project, have left the party and are working to take down Trump and his enablers. They are also putting aside any pro-life or economic policies because they have the wisdom to see the damage which has been done, and which will continue to be done, here and abroad, until he is out of office.
While I agree that dem doesn't automatically mean good, and republican doesn't automatically mean bad, one party overall stands up for people and the right thing, and the other party is happy to let the country burn, as long as they get to stay in power and make a few money grabs while it happens. That may not always have been the case, and it may change again in the future, but for right now, democrats are the only
sane choice that has a chance of winning. We can't afford to split the vote and end up with another 4 years of Trump.
The U.S. abortion rate has hit its lowest point since the procedure became legal nationwide in 1973, according to a new study.
www.latimes.com
ihpi.umich.edu
The number of U.S. abortions has fallen to its lowest level since the practice was legalized in 1973, a new report said Wednesday, drawing cheers and jeers from pro-life advocates.
www.washingtontimes.com
The latest Speed Read,/speed-reads,,speed-reads, breaking news, comment, reviews and features from the experts at The Week
theweek.com
