A blunt message to all apathetic younger citizens
Abortion is not a “woman’s issue.” An unwanted pregnancy affects a woman and her partner most directly. Women over about age 50 are not going to get pregnant. So, young men, you are far more likely to have your life turned upside down by an unwanted pregnancy than are middle aged and older women.
While we all hope that voters think about what’s best for everyone rather than only what’s in their back yards, so to speak, we all know many (most?) put their own interests first or they are too uninvolved to care.
So, younger non- voters, don’t expect women in general to be more motivated to be concerned about your rights than you are. Get out and vote for pro-choice Democrats.
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…after banning birth control, of course, is to change the law so only women who had their child within marriage will be entitled to child support. The rest of them will just have to deal with their “bastard” children on their own.
Because the whole point of all of this isn’t to “protect life,” but to make young women terrified enough of the consequences of getting pregnant with an “illegitimate” child that they’ll keep their legs crossed until marriage.
source: http://www.electproject.org/home/voter-turnout/demographics
The probability of people exercising their right to vote increases as they get older. Baby boomers are the ones who marched for civil rights, marched to end the Vietnam war and marched for abortion rights. I can't speak for all of them, but the baby boomers I know are NOT complacent about the rights that they fought so hard to get in the first place. Young people could be/should be a force to be reckoned with, if they would just GOTV.
