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In reply to the discussion: Pennsylvania Mother Who Gave Daughter Abortion Pill Gets Prison - Reuters/HuffPo [View all]still_one
(92,513 posts)People like Wendy Davis can change things but only if they win, and the problem is the draconian behavior of much of the populous in those states. It sure won't happen soon in the red states, and the only way to change it faster is at the Federal level which is where many are trying to make the change, but unless people, and especially women start voting what is in their best interest it will only get worse.
A perfect example is a person who lives off Social Security and has health care through Medicare, and yet they vote for republicans who have no qualms saying they will privatize social security and medicare, and and effectively cut benefits. That is voting against one's own interests.
There is no ambiguity on the republican platform, that they want to ban abortion, even in cases of rape, incest, and the life of the mother. A large percentage of the republican party also want to ban birth control. They have been extremely vocal about it, and yet many of these states still keep electing these jerks. Missouri might have been a bell weather, when Akin made his "brilliant" rape statement. It was as if a switch turned on, and at that moment the women in Missouri realized their bodies and health were under attack, and they united at the polls and Akin lost.
Even though I think we well retain the Senate, however, there are republicans running who are against a women's right to choose, and unless women unite like they did in Missouri, it will remain a danger to women in those states who do not have the means