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A Vote for Joe is a Vote for Roe meme (Original Post) Buttoneer Mar 2024 OP
Recommend! onecaliberal Mar 2024 #1
It's been sitting there staring us in right in the face this whole time Fiendish Thingy Mar 2024 #2
Wonderful !!! Talitha Mar 2024 #3
I just pulled out my Roe Roe Roe your Vote tshirt. Time to start wearing it again Deuxcents Mar 2024 #4
We have to do better than Roe. Roe is not enough. WhiskeyGrinder Mar 2024 #5
Oh please NanaCat Mar 2024 #17
I'm saying Roe itself is a shitty policy and that whatever abortion policy Democrats run on has to be better than Roe. WhiskeyGrinder Mar 2024 #19
Except that women's anger is real and will drive them to the polls to vote Dem. CTyankee Mar 2024 #21
Abortion rights are a fine issue to run on, as long as the policy we're promising isn't a shitty one. WhiskeyGrinder Mar 2024 #22
Ideally, I'd like to have the decisiion to have/not have an abortion simply left to the woman, period. CTyankee Mar 2024 #23
Which is not what Roe did. Roe is not ideal. WhiskeyGrinder Mar 2024 #25
You are correct. CTyankee Mar 2024 #27
This is a meme--- not a policy dissertation.... DemocraticPatriot Mar 2024 #29
If Roe is codified and people have trouble getting abortions they need because of it, it's a policy problem. WhiskeyGrinder Mar 2024 #30
PERFECT..!!!! Stuart G Mar 2024 #6
it's fine...for those who know what roe means nt msongs Mar 2024 #7
I'm willing to bet.... SergeStorms Mar 2024 #15
Even stupid people know what Roe is. NanaCat Mar 2024 #18
That's good! -nt CrispyQ Mar 2024 #8
I love that! StarryNite Mar 2024 #9
shut up and take my money! where do I get one! nt Javaman Mar 2024 #10
Love it! Hikerchick57 Mar 2024 #11
Hear, hear! Wednesdays Mar 2024 #12
Vote Joe. Vote Roe. Demobrat Mar 2024 #13
How about this? Buttoneer Mar 2024 #20
I'm Serge Storms.... SergeStorms Mar 2024 #14
TY!! Cha Mar 2024 #16
The design is awful. Way too busy. Too many words also. Auggie Mar 2024 #24
"JOE (EQUALS) ROE" ? fierywoman Mar 2024 #28
Regardless what anyone tries to say, ANYONE not voting for Biden or Democrats is voting to ban abortion and women's JohnSJ Mar 2024 #26
 

NanaCat

(2,332 posts)
17. Oh please
Fri Mar 29, 2024, 04:01 AM
Mar 2024

You do realize that the Democrats aren't the GQP--they can multitask...right?

Anyway, Roe is a better issue to run on than 100% of whatever the ideological purity crowd wants to lose on.

WhiskeyGrinder

(26,658 posts)
19. I'm saying Roe itself is a shitty policy and that whatever abortion policy Democrats run on has to be better than Roe.
Fri Mar 29, 2024, 06:22 AM
Mar 2024

CTyankee

(67,907 posts)
21. Except that women's anger is real and will drive them to the polls to vote Dem.
Fri Mar 29, 2024, 10:03 AM
Mar 2024

I can't think of a better issue to run on.

If you are saying that Roe was not the best pro-choice policy to run on, that Roe was too flawed or that it should have been decided (as Justice Ginsburg said) under "equal access under the law," I would agree. And I also note that the Biden campaign is expanding the voice of women on reproductive rights and doing so loudly. In that regard "Roe" is a kind of shorthand for a panoply of reproductive rights issues, as we have seen. The Biden campaign is listening to women's voices.

WhiskeyGrinder

(26,658 posts)
22. Abortion rights are a fine issue to run on, as long as the policy we're promising isn't a shitty one.
Fri Mar 29, 2024, 11:37 AM
Mar 2024

Roe was a shitty policy. Running on the promise of "restoring Roe" is shitty. People didn't get the abortions they wanted when Roe was in effect. People died under Roe. Roe has a made-up deadline when the right to an abortion expires. Using "Roe" as shorthand is garbage communication.

CTyankee

(67,907 posts)
23. Ideally, I'd like to have the decisiion to have/not have an abortion simply left to the woman, period.
Fri Mar 29, 2024, 11:52 AM
Mar 2024

And doctors should practice good medicine. Period.

CTyankee

(67,907 posts)
27. You are correct.
Fri Mar 29, 2024, 12:44 PM
Mar 2024

I used to work for Planned Parenthood (as a fundraising manager). The medical staff told me stories about the real lives of their patients and I would tell their stories in my direct mail appeals. Here in CT we had, of course, a proud history of the fight for reproductive rights. I am so glad I was a part of it. I won't forget the protesters yelling at the women who came to our PP facility. Some, of course, were there just for gyn care that, indeed, prevented unwanted pregnancies and the protesters knew that but didn't give a damn about their lives.

WhiskeyGrinder

(26,658 posts)
30. If Roe is codified and people have trouble getting abortions they need because of it, it's a policy problem.
Fri Mar 29, 2024, 04:22 PM
Mar 2024

Roe was not the magic wand people seem to think it was.

SergeStorms

(20,200 posts)
15. I'm willing to bet....
Thu Mar 28, 2024, 10:52 PM
Mar 2024

90% of voting age women know what "Roe" is all about. 100% of Democratic women, and probably 80% of republican women and independents.
I'd say 70% of voting age men know what "Roe" means. Close to 100% of Democratic men, and probably 40% of the knuckle draggers and independents.

I could be wrong, it's happened before, but I don't think those percentages are too far off.

It's the most important issue in this election, and Democratic women are going to carry the day for Joe Biden. As always.

 

NanaCat

(2,332 posts)
18. Even stupid people know what Roe is.
Fri Mar 29, 2024, 04:06 AM
Mar 2024

They've spent over five decades trying to get rid of it, after all.

Where have you been not to realise that?

 

JohnSJ

(98,883 posts)
26. Regardless what anyone tries to say, ANYONE not voting for Biden or Democrats is voting to ban abortion and women's
Fri Mar 29, 2024, 12:36 PM
Mar 2024

health in the country.

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