In effect? Yes
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What are you referring to? I know of some instances of conservative incorrectly believing some forms of contraception inducing abortions but to me it's a stretch that even that is motivated by hatred.
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I would argue that it hasn't been a full democracy for as long as it's had the electoral college. All we can do is wait and see but my main concern right now is further radicalization by both the right wing followed by the left wing. You have the right wing with it's roe v wade win.. Which is from their perspective their single most important win in decades. It's not that big a stretch that what follows is the left wing mobilizing on a number of fronts. From the right wing perspective you basically have all the child murderers showing their true colors. And that against the left wing's position that the right wing is a bunch of women haters and women slavers. A country of child murderers and women enslavers is not workable...
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Just google "states banning contraception". Many places aren't ruling it out, including removing access to Plan B or banning IUDs. We have that piece of shit Peter Thiel underling running for Senate in Arizona who is on record saying states should be allowed to ban them.
I do agree that the US had always had a system that i do not see as very democratic (but so do some european states), but it was a democracy by fact. As in, even with all the broken parts of the system, as long as the people in power knew restraint and had some gentlemen's agreements, you could generally trust that there would be a peaceful change of government, decently independent courts and so on. There was always corruption and meddling, but there never was a complete lack or ignorance of rule of law or a general disrespect of institutions.
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Do you think the implications of those two "positions" are equal? Because the knock-on effect of either of those things are substantially different. If someone isn't an advocate for women's health, then what are they exactly? What does hyperbole actually do there?
I have googled it, and I've had anti-abortionists show me videos and links, and it's looked like bullshit. Actually, there's only one or two "evidence" they provided that the left were for late-term abortion.
I am not under the impression, I know they're finding ways to control women and take away their rights. This isn't something that can be denied when all the evidence is there, and I'm not sure how you're still denying it when I already listed the things they're doing that hurts women. Same group of people that attacks Islam or Islamic countries for its regressive views on women or pretend to care about women to justify transphobia.
I'm asking where you got that stat from. Did you make it up or did you get it from an actual source?
That's horseshit though. Majority don't care about fetuses or see them as human beings, especially when they barely see already-born human beings as human beings unless they're wealthy. Again, if they don't hate women and actually see fetuses as having their own right to live, then why are they trying to punish women for MISCARRIAGES? Yanno, fetuses dying through no fault of women? Why are so many of them trying to get the women thrown in jail or killed? Why aren't they trying to do more to make it easier for women to decide to keep their babies? They can believe in little to no social programs and still want to support babies. But they don't truly believe in minimal amount of government, otherwise they wouldn't be trying to ban abortion.
They're already doing this in many places, litigating what can and can't be taught in the classroom.
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I know, however, schools and universities are still liberal strongholds and schoolboards are controlled by dem leaning people in many places. Being able to still exert control or curriculum would be an even bigger victory than roe wade in my book
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If it was about that, they would have to go the opposite way. The woman that abort babies will more likely vote democratic than they will vote republican, so their children are also likely to vote more democratic than republican.
Of course they aren't equal. But beyond that, both views amount to both sides seeing themselves as the good guys who are fighting abject evil and there no acknowledgement whatsoever of what the other side is saying.
I am not someone who says these things likely. I am usually in favor of obeying laws even if they are kinda stupid (but to push to change them) because it is importance to have clarity.
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Well, I think one side is about being subjected to oppression from the government that's deep-seeded in societal issues that have existed forever. Being against that is about as righteous as you can be IMO, and there's no reason to acknowledge the other side's gripes. They're not starting from the same place at all.