For those of you wondering why they didn't use Planned Parenthood for their abortion

[BrotherIvan]

19. The anti-abortion campaign is a huge win for the right

They have been very very successful in so many ways. They have put the image in people's minds that having an abortion is killing a baby. I've witnessed it quite a lot even on DU from people who don't think they are anti-choice but still parrot the false rhetoric. There needs to be much more education on what abortion truly is.

Then we have seen both Democrats and Republicans chip away at abortion rights. Republicans are always worse, but Democrats have been enabling them by first signing bills that separated out abortion from health insurance for federal funds(thereby acknowledging the lie that an abortion is separate from basic medical care and that it is somehow abhorrent) to allowing accommodations for woman-hating religious organizations that led to the Hobby Lobby case.

If people don't stop it now by DEMANDING their leaders be pro-choice, then we will lose the right in this country. Usually that means voting for the Democrat, but not always. Many Democrats aren't anti-abortion, but don't actively support choice and that is leading to the erosion of important, basic RIGHTS. Just like the right demands that all their candidates declare their anti-abortion stance, we should make our candidates state their pro-choice stance and then vote accordingly. If they don't, they will not be reelected because it is that important.

And then people need to either stop their support for their religious institutions that are actively working to erase women's rights. One of the biggest of those has a rather liberal makeup of members but a hard right hierarchy who does quite the opposite: the Catholic Church. The same as citizens, pro-choice people need to let it be known that they will not support a candidate, institution or church with money or time who does not believe in equality for women. By filling the coffers of bigoted institutions, that money is used to take away women's access to very necessary medical care.