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In reply to the discussion: Being pro-life doesn’t make me any less of a lefty [View all]Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)Nobody is making it legal. It IS legal, and the losing side of the fight is expending a ton of money, energy, legislative time, effort trying to win the fight they lost, decades ago. Instead of spending any time trying to reduce the number of people who need abortion, they're spending a ton of time trying to reduce the number of people who can access the abortion they need. You telling the pro-choice end to stop spending time fighting off the attacks -- and spend it at battered mothers' shelters, low-income free care clinics, soup kitchens, or cleaning up toxic sites near low-income population areas -- dodges the issue of who is wasting all of our time.
The caliber of the pro-life response to your suggestion is predictable: Paul Ryan and Ann Romney will show up to a shelter for battered women and their kids, wash some already-cleaned toddler sippy bowls for the cameras, then leave, still the heroes of the 'pro-life' movement establishment.
Telling the pro-choice side to get out there and work on 'the issues' is ignoring the dynamics of the situation. They're attacking, we're defending. This IS the issue. At the best, your statement is facile, at the worst, it's a disingenuous attempt to make us shut up through guilt inducement about all the things we haven't said and work we haven't done.