Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: BBC: Bernie Sanders in climate change 'population control' uproar [View all]Hekate
(90,617 posts)...when we though there was such a thing to be had with pro-lifers. It made its way onto the ACA for the same reason: the government has never paid for abortions, despite what anti-choicers would have you believe.
Hyde has now outlived whatever utility it ever had.
I got the impression from the OPs here that Sanders thinks all women in this country have easy access to family planning services including abortion, which remains legal. Hence his comments about poor countries. However, there has been a decades-long effort to make it unobtainable in the US -- still legal, but unobtainable. In the more extremw states, they treat abortion as if it were already illegal again. Harassment at clinics has been common all along, stalking of clinic staff takes place, and several doctors have bewn assassinated. Then there are the laws: heartbeat, personhood, waiting periods, admitting privileges and a host of others.
That's all.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden