Reply #133: Taking away abortion rights sure as hell won't [View All]

take the issue away!

Do you think splitting the Democratic party would further our goals? Do you think many, many Democrats would support anti-choice candidates, or a party that refuses to protect the innate right to privacy women possess?

You take away that issue in one way only: by forcing the right-wingers to talk about the broad range of issues that can be called "life". You force them to look at poverty, and hunger, and homelessness. You force them to talk about the death penalty. You force them to look at the righteousness of a society that is increasingly divided between the haves and have-nots. You change the conversation to something far broader.

At the same time, you show you are earnestly working toward making options viable for women (making adoption a more attractive option, making it possible for women to carry a pregnancy to term and then actually feed the child). You insist on real sex education in the schools, in better and more available contraception.

We've completely allowed them to set the terms of the conversation. THAT has been our mistake -- not our support for women's rights.