(June 21, 2014 at 8:49 pm)Heywood Wrote: Its a thought experiment grounded in history. Would you have voted for a Nazi platform that included slaughtering the Jews even if you wholeheartedly agreed with the rest of the platform(hypothetically speaking)? Somehow I doubt you would even though you profess disdain for one issue voters. Some issues require unwavering opposition despite extraneous circumstances. For me Abortion is one of those issues. There is nothing wrong with being a one issue voter.
How many children go hungry because of people who vote for the rights of fetuses? How many abortions happen because of Republican policies that limit access to contraception? Because of Republican policies that exacerbate poverty? Because of Republican policies that oppose intelligent sex education in schools? Do you ever stop and think about these things?
You probably buy the line that people like me want as many abortions to happen as possible, but that couldn't be further from the truth. People like me recognize the right of a woman to abort. We also advocate social and economic policies to remove as much of the incentive as we can. You can advocate criminalizing abortion, which just forces it back to the coathanger in the alley, or you can actually do something to help make abortions as unnecessary as possible. If you really care about the lives of these unborn children, you should seek to learn the nuances, and the unintended consequences, of your position. And then you should make a change, because your votes are doing nothing but worsening the problem.
