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vi5

(13,305 posts)
14. Again...I hope I'm wrong....
Wed Jul 4, 2012, 06:24 PM
Jul 2012

But the fact is that wherever the laws are coming from, it is more difficult today for a woman to have access to a facility that provides abortions than it was 10-20 years ago. And if the states choose not to honor the law, and if the press and the right (with the help of enough cowardly dems) continues to muddy the waters as to what it does and what it's benefits are, it's going to be really hard to gain the full traction of support from people realizing the benefits of the law.

What's happened with abortion and voting rights has been the result of a combination of a blind press, evil and manipulative GOP politicians, and enough people thinking that it can't affect them and it's only for "other people". I just don't see any way through the same stuff happening with the ACA.

I very much want to be wrong and be optimistic but after the past couple of years I just don't have that kind of optimism in me any more.

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I hope you are right! mucifer Jul 2012 #1
20 years from now conservatives will be trying to say that they created the law when it's popular. craigmatic Jul 2012 #2
Someone's a lot more optimistic than I am...... vi5 Jul 2012 #8
The anti abortion laws are at the State level lunatica Jul 2012 #10
Again...I hope I'm wrong.... vi5 Jul 2012 #14
It won't be long before Politicalboi Jul 2012 #3
It'll be known as the Obamacare Act lunatica Jul 2012 #4
And they'll go down in history as TeaBaggers... lame54 Jul 2012 #5
You're right! lunatica Jul 2012 #6
I'll call them that as long as they... lame54 Jul 2012 #21
Bingo! BumRushDaShow Jul 2012 #7
Let's use it as a positive term now just to piss the fuckers off. HopeHoops Jul 2012 #9
Definitely lunatica Jul 2012 #11
While I'm happy the Affordable Care Act or as many like to call it Obamacare was upheld by the SC, sad sally Jul 2012 #12
I believe it will be improved in time lunatica Jul 2012 #13
I've been calling it Obamacare for a while now. Whisp Jul 2012 #16
The disappointment should be aimed at Congress, because... Amonester Jul 2012 #22
I think we should all call it Obamacare. For one thing to mock the repukes and to remind them rhett o rick Jul 2012 #15
Obama campaign now using the term ''Obamacare'' in campaign ads, see link below Tx4obama Jul 2012 #17
A lot of common labels started out as pejoratives. Odin2005 Jul 2012 #18
We can hope it goes down in history as an intermediate stage... JackRiddler Jul 2012 #19
Also realize that these so called Iliyah Jul 2012 #20
100% correct malaise Jul 2012 #23
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