Will We Abandon Womens Rights in the Name of Progressive Politics?

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142. What is with the almost religious devotion to a politician?

Bernie made a mistake, he revealed some unpleasant aspects to his singular focus on his own talking points, he doesn't seem to care so much about the issues that affect people in very real and immediate ways.

The fight against anti-choice right wingers is very real and is something we cannot let up on, the sheer volume of bills and the sheer amount of money that goes into promoting attacks on women doesn't allow for relaxing our "rigidity" on this issue.

I'm appalled that people don't seem to get this, and the lame arguments they're trying to use to spin this into something other than the grievous error by Bernie. I saw the backlash against Planned Parenthood when they endorsed his opponent, I guess some people were always more about Bernie himself and less about the actual policies and organizations that do the progressive work.

Someone also said that we should only deal with abortion AFTER laws are passed. WTF? I guess they don't understand what kinds of laws these are that are being pushed and why they need to be fought every step of the way. Otherwise we end up with 20 week bans, suffering women and families and dead women. Oh, and laws on the books that say that it's justifiable homicide to murder doctors, and make a miscarriage a death penalty eligible crime. We already have a number of women in jail for miscarriage, but I guess since no one bothers to report on it or talk about it, it doesn't matter.