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

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121. You couldn't be clearer in your view

that women's rights aren't important enough for you to focus on anything but defending Bernie. He is campaigning for a pro-life candidate. That is not defending women's rights, that is treating them as optional. The focus here is on you, and you continue to demonstrate that your singular concern is one man, not economic justice or the rights of the majority. Bernie is wrong on this issue. That your refuse to even consider that tells me you cannot be counted on to stand up for equal rights or economic equality.

You remain dedicated to your myopic cause of the infallibility of the one in disregard of the rights of the many. That is who you choose to be because that is what you value. In another thread you defended Mello, attacked women who raised the issue of reproductive rights as 'centrist,' which apparently means concerns with anyone but white men who already make several times the median income.

The more reactions like this I see, the more I am convinced that too many so-called progressvies care about the wealth of a select demographic rather than economic equality and civil rights. Thankfully, some progressive care enough about core principles to express their concerns to Bernie, but you have instead chosen to attack those who dare to advocate for their own rights because you believe Bernie matters more. There is nothing progressive or leftist about elevating one over the many. It is deeply reactionary, closer to a pre-modern political ethos that representative democracy. I categorically reject the hard turn to the right I am witnessing.