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In reply to the discussion: Abortion: what is really the issue? [View all]Buckeyeblue
(5,499 posts)15. I struggle with why the anti-choicers get so worked up over abortion
And yet they don't get as passionate about issues effecting children like...
Hunger--imagine the children that could be fed with the money/energy that anti-choicers spend
Clean water--where was the every life is sacred group when the children in Flint were being poisoned
Education--Anti-choicers tend to vote for candidates who cut education spending
I could go on. The contradictory positions taken by most anti-choicers make me think that the issue is mostly anti-women. They are also adamantly opposed to ERA.
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Yep. Most everything in the Boble supports abortion. Very little "pro-forced birth."
TheBlackAdder
Oct 2020
#21
Someone asked some Republicans about paying a child stippend for those pregnant during COVID. . .
TheBlackAdder
Oct 2020
#22
The apple in the garden of Eden represented knowledge. That's what they're against
Walleye
Oct 2020
#5
The religious "tenets" re: abortion are not based on logic, except perhaps for the political gains
hlthe2b
Oct 2020
#11
Theologically, it is all about "ensoulment" -- the moment that the fetus receives a "soul"
Klaralven
Oct 2020
#17
I find it always freaks people out when I point out there are directions in the Bible.
Gore1FL
Oct 2020
#18
evolutionary psychology. it is the prime directive to pass on that packet of dna.
mopinko
Oct 2020
#20
Like all the other GOP hard-line stands, it's bait and switch, and that's why it's nonsense
Mr. Ected
Oct 2020
#30
"How the Catholic Church came to oppose birth control" - an article from 2018
OnDoutside
Oct 2020
#44