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Buckeyeblue

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25. So now Republicans want to negotiate reproductive healthcare?

Sun Aug 27, 2023, 09:56 AM

Aug 2023

Abortion, or any other medical intervention, should be left between individuals and their medical providers. We don't have laws around procedures to remove an appendix or a gall bladder. No laws around surgery to fix an ACL. I could go on.

Republicans have weaponized abortion and other reproductive health treatments because they were able to get poor religious people to vote for them.

It seems like now that abortion bans are a reality and we are seeing the impacts of non-medical professionals creating laws around medical treatments, some individuals that were reliable Republican voters are rethinking their vote. Or previous non-voters are thinking they might vote.

That's why we are going to hear Republicans over the next year talk about a "common sense" approach to abortion. They are going to try to sound reasonable. Whenever a deplorable approaches me trying to sound reasonable, I grab my wallet and run the other way.

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Kellyanne Conway's Daughter Issues One-Word Response to Her Abortion Post [View all] RandySF Aug 2023 OP

Can you come up with any other rights multigraincracker Aug 2023 #1

She probably can rpannier Aug 2023 #7

it's still a religious belief azureblue Aug 2023 #11

See Numbers 5:11-31 multigraincracker Aug 2023 #14

it's a religious delusion Skittles Aug 2023 #19

I really like a simple "No" response to bullshit. betsuni Aug 2023 #2

While most abortions do happen within this limit, even having a limit masks a very important fact. Lonestarblue Aug 2023 #3

+1000! ShazzieB Aug 2023 #8

From this, I surmise two absolutes*: jaxexpat Aug 2023 #9

Whether you believe it is irrelevant or not, all genders vote. According to Pew research, 39% of JohnSJ Aug 2023 #13

Huh? Is it an official policy that women's reproductive options...... jaxexpat Aug 2023 #15

I said nothing of the sort, and you are offended by my comment that NO ONE should dictate decisions JohnSJ Aug 2023 #16

Since people with uteri come in both pro-choice and anti-choice varieties... Silent3 Aug 2023 #21

Of course that's true. It is step one toward a progressive society. jaxexpat Aug 2023 #22

"allow men their opinion" Silent3 Aug 2023 #23

Men's opinions on this issue should be irrelevant. jaxexpat Aug 2023 #24

Only the opinions of factory owners and workers are relevant to factory working conditions? Silent3 Aug 2023 #26

Kellyanne sucks, bigly. Joinfortmill Aug 2023 #4

And I've heard from reliable sources... rubbersole Aug 2023 #5

Here's an idea... Think. Again. Aug 2023 #6

Wow, that's cutting it close even for an ectopic pregnancy Farmer-Rick Aug 2023 #10

if abortion is murder Garion_55 Aug 2023 #12

The Exceptions are Hypocritical nt DontBelieveEastisEas Aug 2023 #18

Abortion is a medical procedure, not murder. At any time, it is part of the continuum of female medi Hekate Aug 2023 #20

I appreciate her daughter's wise Dem friends. JudyM Aug 2023 #17

So now Republicans want to negotiate reproductive healthcare? Buckeyeblue Aug 2023 #25