JoeB131
Diamond Member
What a crock of The Republican party platform has been about abortion since 2012. It took 1st place in 2012 and was on the agenda again in 2016, and it is specifcally the reason that Mitt Romney lost in 2012. Rush Limbaugh & other right wing talk show hosts lied to you, stating that Romney lost because he wasn't conservative enough.
There's been an anti-Abortion plank in the GOP Platform since 1980. It used to be a winning issue for the GOP. It kind of still is, because how else do you get working class Christians to vote for tax cuts for the rich?
And if another Republican man says anything about rape other than it is a horrific, violent crime, I want to personally cut out his tongue. The college-age daughters of many of my friends voted for Obama because they were completely turned off by Neanderthal comments like the suggestion of “legitimate rape.” Of course they were talking about abortion again, and got into discussing legal legitimate rape questions.
Here's the thing about that. Abortions performed because of Rape are less than 1% of all abortions performed. Just like the anti-abortion nuts can't stop talking about late term abortions (which are rare), the pro-abortion left can't stop talking about rape abortions (which are also very rare).
So maybe we should have an honest discussion about abortion. Most abortions are had by women who had consensual sex with a man who wasn't good father material, on healthy fetuses in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. .
I don't think that's a discussion either side really wants to have.