Unless they stop each other, technically one gun won’t be stopped. Sensible gun laws reduce gun violence.
John Ellis: “Ever since the Roe v. Wade decision, Republicans have used the abortion issue to attract support from (mostly) white evangelical Christians and ethnic Catholics and to paint Democrats as baby-killers. It was a perfect issue in that no one ever expected the Court to reverse its decision, so Republican candidates up and down the ballot could pledge allegiance to the cause secure in the knowledge that the cause was forever lost. GOP political consultants compared the abortion issue to a dog chasing a car. The dog would bark and run and bark and run but it would never catch the car.” “And then it did.” “Fifty years of relentless hard work by the anti-abortion movement finally delivered a Supreme Court willing and able to reverse the Roe (and Casey) decisions. Woe betide Republican elected officials who try to ‘distance’ themselves from the Court’s ruling. If you think the NRA is powerful in GOP primaries, you’re right. If you think the right-to-life movement is even more powerful in GOP primaries than the NRA, you are right again. Republicans who cut and run on the right-to-life movement will find themselves in a politically challenging environment. To say the least.”
The Pro-life movement is not about political power. It is a morality issue.. The objective is to save babies lives or have less destroyed. If they were successful they would save 300,000 African American babies each year (90% would eventually vote Democratic) The moral case has been successful
The increased availability and use of contraception has been successful. People trying to impose their morals on others creates conflict and oppression. The decades long decline of abortions in America should be very instructive to right wingers. Preaching and punishment is not a substitute for addressing the root causes of issues.
Unwanted pregnancy....um..ok.......root causes of unwanted pregnancy? Could the available of abortion cause more carelessness Is it the breakdown on the nuclear family....Sometimes a nuclear family offers more checks and balances of reckless behavior by one of the family.. Has religion stop becoming a regulating factor in peoples lives...
I don’t know that promiscuousness increased with access to abortion. Roe was like 1974(?) and “free love” was 1969 and before that is not like as a society we were actually chaste. Besides women have been having abortions for literally thousands of years throughout the world, no matter religion etc. The nuclear family is certainly braking down. Divorce rates are 50% but married women have abortions too. Your home is your temple in my mind so whatever your religion or moral system is it’s really none of my business, or yours truthfully. I was with a large group not too long ago and found out my children were the only ones baptized out of 8 families. That sort of made my brain jerk a bit - and I was the only Biden voter in the group. Again, none of our business though. Not someone’s healthcare and not someone’s moral beliefs. You should be worried about people’s right to not have other people’s morals pushed onto them in America. You’re worried about a less religious society and I’m worried about a more religious imposition on society.
Great news. I remain surprised that in this information age we still have mental midgets calling early term fetuses "babies". Or believing that all pregnancies can be prevented with contraception and good intentions. None of these guys could ever get through medical school or apparently understand women's rights. These are the kind of guys who speak in absolutes until the day THEY get impacted by something. And even then some just sweep it under the rug; hide what occurred to them. Grown adults who may even shun their own kids if they get pregnant, come out as gay, or refuse to follow their own rigid belief system. I wouldn't trust "Fortune Teller" to make me a hamburger or paint my house never mind make important moral or medical decisions effecting a ton of people in society. We need to remember to tell these morons to fuck off. Especially if they somehow slither into some position of influence in society.