How can one claim to be progressive while being pro-life?

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40. You are ignoring the articles linked

And the excerpts posted throughout this thread. I don't know why you feel compelled to continually make excuses. We aren't talking about the DNC. I'm talking about whether you want a progressive movement that values you as less while you make excuses for Bernie advocating for politicians who would relegate women to second class citizenship and increased poverty, all under the absurd claim that economic equality is furthered through ignoring reproductive rights issues that keep women and their children from desperate poverty.

The Question is whether you care enough to try to stop what is u folding, to tell Bernie that women's rights are not negotiable. Bernie is from a generation before the women's movement. He could be convinced that women's rights were not optional if his supporters clearly communicated that message to him, but that requires their conviction and a belief that he, as a public servant, represents them, not that they exist to serve and defend him. It requires understanding the people--all of the people, including women-- come first.

I am appalled by what I am seeing, but not surprised. I've seen signs of it for well over a year now. This is what happens when one man is treated as more important than the people he purports to represent. The effect is that his supporters are starting to be convinced that women's rights are wedge issues that should be abandoned in favor of what Bernie cares most about. Even women are making that argument. Their own rights, their own lives, matter less than Bernie. Stopping that requires immediate intervention, not complacency or excuses that another Dem somewhere is pro-life. Bob Casey doesn't have millions of supporters who treat his every word as absolute, who rearrange their core values in responses to his priorities. We have already seen gun control vanish from the progressive roster. Do you really want women's rights to go the same way?

I won't be helping turn the clock back to the days when you and I were treated like property, and I intend to actively resist the reactionary positions and the complacency.