Great article today in the Huffington Post on how Barack Obama is the real Pro Life candidate. Since we all like stats...
Obama could remind the voter that only 11% of sexually active women don't use contraception and from this 11% comes 50 percent of the nation's abortions. Ninety-three percent of the American public strongly favors contraception because of this very reason. Very few voters are aware, however, that not one pro-life organization in the United States supports contraception. Or that instead, pro-life groups have been spearheading campaigns to prevent Americans from accessing birth control. No less than 80% of self-described pro life voters strongly support contraception . Few know that McCain has a long legislative resume devoted to voting against access to contraception and prevention.
So, how does John McCain plan on reducing the number of abortions in the US?
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Well, there's always the other 50% of the nation's abortions. Certainly there must be one solution to fix a majority of the remainder, similar to the first 50%. Any data on the accounts of the second 50%? I'd guess the reasons are widespread.
Right-wing politicians have no intention of ever outlawing abortion. They absolutely must keep it as an issue that they can scream about. How else will they get that segment of voters to constantly vote against their own economic interests other than an appeal to their outrage over abortion?
You can see how it worked with gay marriage. America has pretty much come to terms with the fact that gays exist, have children, live together happily and no one really cares about it. Witness Dick Cheney and his lesbian daughter.
Without the gay marriage outrage in the 2004 presidential election, Bush would have been unable to win the outraged Catholic vote.
But even though Republicans completely controlled the House, the Senate and the presidency, nothing was done to outlaw gay marriage. Because the Republicans don't really care about gay marriage. They have too many friends, sons and daughters who are gay to actually go through with it. Even though they don't really believe gays should get married, they don't feel strongly enough about it to say that their sons and daughters are criminals because they want to do it.
The overt race baiting in the sixties dissipated into the more subtle race-baiting that Reagan practiced in the eighties. Now, African American race-baiting is pretty much a thing of the past in most states (though Hispanics are still fair game under the guise of "immigration").
Nobody wants to have an abortion. It's always everyone's last choice. Most Catholics think the pope is wrong about birth control and silently practice it.
The Evangelical right is beginning to wise up about guys like Bush and McCain. The Republicans never intend to get rid of abortion or gay marriage. So the Evangelicals are starting to worry about other moral issues: the inequality of incomes, the destruction of the environment, killing innocent people in unprovoked wars.
As soon as Americans realize that they can't every single thing they want, and that we all have to compromise to get some of the things we want, the country can start healing.
How else will they get that segment of voters to constantly vote against their own economic interests
I'm curious, have you ever actually TALKED to someone who supposedly "votes against their own economic interests" - or is does this argument rest upon a presumption of economic classism to work?
Funny how you could turn the argument around and say that voters aren't self-centered materialist pigs, but are voting on principle. Of course, that wouldn't work as well for ya, would it?
haha
http://youtube.com/watch?v=jj4VK9wVAi0
typical
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