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Buttoneer

(896 posts)
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 08:52 PM Tuesday

No, We Don't Need 'Pro-Life' Democrats

Why is it that whenever Democrats are losing, pundits crawl out of the woodwork to suggest we throw women’s rights under the bus? We go through this every few years, when political talking heads—most often men—will insist we need a “bigger tent” on abortion rights. It’s fucking exhausting.

https://open.substack.com/pub/jessica/p/ezra-klein-abortion?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Skittles

(167,731 posts)
2. same with trans folk
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 08:57 PM
Tuesday

kick them under the bus - or at the very least, HIDE them under there, to appease bigots

FUCK THAT

Autumn

(48,395 posts)
3. All Democrats are pro life. Fucking low life republicans are not pro anything.
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 09:00 PM
Tuesday

Pro is a Latin root word meaning for. They have always misused the word pro. They are anti life. Against life.

aeromanKC

(3,725 posts)
5. I would vote for Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan in a heart beat next year in the GA Gov. race.
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 09:02 PM
Tuesday

Much rather have a D in that seat than a R regardless of every single issue he stands for. Sometimes a big tent is good.

markodochartaigh

(4,162 posts)
6. Apparently only
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 09:15 PM
Tuesday

88% of Democratic voters support gay marriage. I'm not exactly happy about that, but I sure hope that that 12% who don't support my right to marry the man whom I love don't stay home when it's time to vote.


https://news.gallup.com/poll/691139/record-party-divide-years-sex-marriage-ruling.aspx

Ping Tung

(3,724 posts)
7. I will not vote for anyone from any party who opposes a woman's Right to choose dominion over her own body.
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 09:15 PM
Tuesday

I have very few litmus tests in voting. Women's rights is one of them.

IMO "pro-life" isn't about abortion, Life, or babies. It's about punishment and slavery.

PurgedVoter

(2,612 posts)
8. Those who are against abortion rights have show a support for lies and violence
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 09:45 PM
Tuesday

They show plastic babies for developmental stages that are in reality bits of tissue or that still look like fish. They make up lies they know are lies and they just carry on like they have their stupid moral high ground. On any nuanced issue they just lie to support their false moral high ground.
For years they said, "We would never criminalize care or prevent a doctor from saving a woman's life." The moment they could they criminalized care and started preventing doctors from practicing life saving medicine for women. There is no stand they take that is built on truth. They also said, "We would never force a woman to raise a rapists baby." Also a lie.

I can understand the ones that care and care for living children in the general populace. There are also those who have been fooled by the persistent lies. Sad to be them, but their vote hurts society, women and children.

Jack Valentino

(3,385 posts)
9. ALL Democrats are pro-life: we protect life once you are born--- while Republicans only support theoretical life
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 10:15 PM
Tuesday

before you are born. After that, they want you to DIE through gun violence, lack of healthcare or starvation--- taking away your SNAP benefits...

NO, we don't need any anti-abortion Democrats!

Fiendish Thingy

(20,860 posts)
10. Primary them all
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 10:29 PM
Tuesday

In congress, there aren’t that many, and none in the senate, unless Fetterman has changed his mind.

We need every vote in 2029 to first, expand the court, then codify Roe (among many other things).

betsuni

(28,371 posts)
11. I remember Bernie Sanders getting in trouble for endorsing and campaigning for Nebraska's Heath Mello
Wed Sep 24, 2025, 12:31 AM
Wednesday

(co-sponsored abortion restriction legislature) and Sanders saying getting elected was the most important thing and you can't agree with everything in a candidate, it's politics. Um...

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