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In reply to the discussion: What the fuck is going on with this anti-choice shit? What bizarro world have I stepped in to? [View all]jmowreader
(53,489 posts)The three big reasons we should work to bring people to our point of view, and not bend to embrace views counter to ours:
FIRST, it demeans us to walk away from our deeply held beliefs just so we might pick up a vote here or there. The "don't kill your baby!" crowd would vote Republican even if their candidate ate a puppy on live television.
SECOND, the people who are really serious anti-choicers work their asses off to have their views be the only views anyone gets to consider. We bring anti-choicers in here and within five years there will be a huge groundswell of "we should end public funding for Planned Parenthood" on this very board. We believe in a woman's right to choose. We RUN candidates who do too. On this there can be no compromise.
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THIRD, if we start embracing antichoice views the hard right media will declare we've finally proven the only thing we care about is votes.
We can never compromise on a woman's right to self-determination. We believe in it. The Republicans do not.