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LibDemAlways

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3. My husband's staunchly Catholic elderly aunt

Reply to Snake Plissken (Original post)

Sat Oct 13, 2018, 10:38 AM

Oct 2018

now deceased was a single issue anti-abortion voter. She was so obsessed with the issue that on seeing my infant daughter for the first time she asked whether or not my ob gyn performed abortions. She reflexively voted R despite all evidence that she was being played, and her final vote went to Trump, that paragon of pro life virtue.

Am thinking though that if these right wing nutcases on SCOTUS actually do overturn Roe, there will be hell to pay for the R party and it will come back to bite them in the ass bigtime. They have to be secretly worried that they've pushed their game too far.

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I have come to realize that Republicans treat abortion as a sleight of hand magician's parlor trick [View all] Snake Plissken Oct 2018 OP

No offense, but that has been obvious for about 30 years... Wounded Bear Oct 2018 #1

They know they would risk losing all those one issue voters they depend on. Arkansas Granny Oct 2018 #10

I don't think they actually want to repeal Roe v Wade bearsfootball516 Oct 2018 #2

My husband's staunchly Catholic elderly aunt LibDemAlways Oct 2018 #3

34% of Republicans are pro-abortion. Hortensis Oct 2018 #4

Please, respectfully, use "pro-choice" vs "pro-abortion." nt Ilsa Oct 2018 #8

Thank you. NT Rorey Oct 2018 #13

I realized a long time back that they aren't against abortion, Republicans have Autumn Oct 2018 #5

Planned Parenthood is still being funded. RandiFan1290 Oct 2018 #6

Speaking of things they've been allowed to get away with for so long, that reminds me ooky Oct 2018 #7

It definitely used to be that they played the religious right. I remember Gary Bauer on TV brewens Oct 2018 #9

The vast majority of those who claim to be "pro-life" don't care and use it as a wedge issue Polybius Oct 2018 #11

It took you this long? hurple Oct 2018 #12

I've noticed that too. yardwork Oct 2018 #14