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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sat Sep 24, 2022, 02:20 PM Sep 2022

In GOP legislatures, a gender divide emerges over abortion

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Outside the chambers of the West Virginia Legislature, the marble foyer was packed with young women in T-shirts, ripped jeans, and gym shorts holding signs with uteruses drawn in colored marker.

“Bans off our bodies,” the signs said. “Abortion is essential.”

Inside, a group of lawmakers, almost all of them men, sat at desks in pressed suits, doing their best to talk over protesters’ chants carrying through the heavy wooden doors.

A stark gender divide has emerged in debates unfolding in Republican-led states including West Virginia, Indiana and South Carolina following the U.S. Supreme Court’s June decision to end constitutional protections for abortion. As male-dominated legislatures worked to advance bans, often with support of the few Republican women holding office, protesters were more likely to be women.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-legislatures-gender-divide-emerges-115809428.html

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In GOP legislatures, a gender divide emerges over abortion (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2022 OP
This is such BULLSHIT! maxrandb Sep 2022 #1
Name one state where women topped men in votes for Trump. delisen Sep 2022 #2

maxrandb

(17,500 posts)
1. This is such BULLSHIT!
Sat Sep 24, 2022, 02:49 PM
Sep 2022

There is no group more responsible for the ascension to power by Donnie Dipshit and the Retrumplican Party than White Suburban Women.

They will NEVER lose access to abortion and reproductive healthcare.

They also don't give one fuck that other women in this country will lose those rights.

As long as their little snowflakes can go to school and never have encounter black or brown children, history, or science, they don't give two-shits about the rest of America.

These women could still smell the teargas of Jan 6 from across the Potomac when they want into the ballot box, and still elected a slate of despicable Retrumplican Donnie Asskissers to EVERY STATEWIDE OFFICE in Virginia.

Women can protest all they want outside the West Virginia Statehouse, but the White Suburban Women they need to change West Virginia politics will NEVER support them within their vote.

delisen

(7,422 posts)
2. Name one state where women topped men in votes for Trump.
Sat Sep 24, 2022, 04:55 PM
Sep 2022

When we get those facts on the table we may be able to discuss which group of Americans is mainly responsible for Trump in office.

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