Have democrats largely given up on protecting a woman's right to choose?

[Savannahmann]

15. The Republicans played this very smart.

They restricted access under the guise of protecting the women. To the average voter it seems reasonable. Sometimes, things happen, complications happen. I went to a local doctor to have a mole removed. It was a procedure in his office. But if something had gone wrong, if I had started bleeding and they had been unable to stop it, if I had gone into cardiac arrest, the Doctor could have had me admitted in the Hospital before the ambulance arrived. The hospital ER staff would have had my file pulled up on the computer, and known my medical history in seconds.

That is the image that is created by this law. I am a woman, and exercising my right to choose. Something goes wrong, a complication that no one expected. It is beyond the ability of the Doctor on site to manage, and I need a Hospital right now to save my life. The Doctor should be able to do more than dial 911 is the message the Republicans put out there.

Last week, the President told us that those people having their insurance canceled had crappy insurance and didn't know it. The Republicans don't have to say that about the Clinics that are closing. The message is clear. Those clinics had crappy doctors and the patients didn't know it.

Now, before you all jump on me and scream that I hate women and I want them to have their right to control their bodies taken from them. I don't. I'm not suggesting it in the slightest. I'm don't feel that way, I don't think that way. But like a chess player who sees himself out maneuvered and in real danger of losing, I admire the brilliance of the opponent. I want to learn from this defeat, and make sure I don't lose again. I want to make sure that this is the last setback we suffer. Before we can do that, we have to learn what happened, and how we got beat.

The image the Republicans have created is clear. If your Dental Surgeon has to have privileges at the Hospital to remove wisdom teeth in his office, why shouldn't your Abortion Provider be at least that competent. It misses a lot of facts, and it disguises the issue. But it was played smart is all I am trying to say.