DCCC: a gentle reminder about what progressive women do when their rights are in the crosshairs

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29. You apparently didn't read the whole thread that refutes that....

Here it is:



No. No, they do not. Hear me on this one. /1

Outcomes of fights depend on more than strategy. They depend on resource allocation. How you divide forces, what support you give, etc. /2

If the Dem Party opens its doors to legislating away women's bodily autonomy, neither they nor women net any gains. Period. /3

At that point, women will be forced to fight a two-front war just to keep what dwindling rights and liberties we DO have. /4

Forced to defend our left flank as well as our right, the battle to keep what we have will become impossible. The center will not hold. /5

If you weren't in a coma during the 2016 election you might remember how the first female candidate had to fight just this two-front war. /6

And how that weakened the Party. /6a

This is BOTH a pragmatic & moral issue. Dems won the popular vote on the most pro-woman & pro-PoC platform ever. These issues matter. /7

Women aren't full citizens under the law. We don't have equal pay, we don't have equal rights. Our liberties are under attack every day. /8

Hard-won victories - Title IX, Roe, contraception - are fights we ARE STILL FIGHTING IN 2017 and we are BARELY HOLDING THE GROUND WON. /9

We aren't making strides forward. And now, supposed allies on our left in this fight are forcing us to defend our left flank. /10

It bears repeating here:

REPRODUCTIVE.

ISSUES.

ARE.

ECONOMIC.

ISSUES. /11

Women are the backbone of the Democratic Party. We make up 51% of the total US population and 54% of the total electorate. /12

54% of us are D. We don't just wink out of existence because we're suddenly deemed expendable by the minority of white men in our Party. /13

To put it in terms party officials should understand:

The more we're forced to bear, the less $ and time we have to support a Party. /14

And if you think this is just some bone to toss anti-choice pols' way in hopes of chasing a demo we lost in 65, think again. /15

If there is ANY issue that Republicans will suddenly 180 on to find compromise, it's abortion. Believe it. /16

Leftist dudes & some party officials probably think this won't matter, that it'll be just window dressing. They are WRONG. /17

This, if allowed, will be THE issue that suddenly gets wheels in Washington turning again. Under this administration/Congress/SCOTUS. /18

And they will ONLY turn on this issue. All our hard work, all our money, all our efforts will be broken on women's backs. /19

On women's backs. Women. Specifically black women. Who've had the back of the Democratic Party for YEARS. /20