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In reply to the discussion: Have democrats largely given up on protecting a woman's right to choose? [View all]Ms. Toad
(34,066 posts)discussion threads here drop like stones, and why there is at least a perception that it is becoming an issue that is not at the top of Dems agenda. Dems include the traditional peace churches - and other individuals - who support equity and justice and many of whom feel strongly enough about the sanctity of life to have served jail time rather than pay war taxes or take up arms.
The grey area - where life begins (and it is intellectually dishonest to say when abortion is concerned that life begins at birth, yet to feel/talk/act as if a wanted pregnancy is a child at least at some time before birth), and what to do when there are two lives in the balance, one of whose life depends on the other - needs to be discussed with honesty if we are ever to get past the stalemate that currently exists, where a single bad election could end Roe v. Wade.
But the rhetoric and venom directed at those of us who hold consistent positions regarding life, for whom this is not a black and white question, make that discussion impossible.