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

[Ms. Toad]

236. Try reading my initial post.

This comment was a specific response to someone who suggested that people who are truly pro-life do ZERO of those things. It was not a statement on my position with regard to the law.

But condemnation, like yours, proves the point my initial post was addressing about why discussions about abortion sink like a stone, and why there is a perception at least that this is not a burning issue. Many people are not comfortable with abortion because it really is hard to reconcile a legal necessity (safe and legal abortions) with a truly pro-life approach toward all life - and many of those people who are truly pro-life are not the Republicans or Tea Party idiots, but those of us who believe the death penalty is wrong, who support the right of people to choose to live and work where they want - regardless of an accident of birth, who oppose wars and taxes which support wars, who support a strong safety net for all people, a living wage, and so on - in other words people who are to the left of most Democrats.

Calling us names whenever more complex discussions of abortion come up means that we don't join discussions here (and the echo chamber discussions of abortion sink), and there are plenty of other things which need our attention in the world which do not require us to support (or appear to support by association) rhetoric about the contents of a woman's uterus which does not ring true outside of discussions about abortion.