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Penny Adrian's avatar

Thank You so much for this. I am pro choice up to 12 weeks, after which I think abortion should only be legal in cases of rape, incest, or threats to the mother's health. (I had a first trimester abortion, and although it was emotionally painful, it was the right decision for me at the time. This is not a simple issue).

I was kicked out of the Texas Handmaids for telling them they were crazy for insisting that "men get pregnant, too." But before I got kicked out, I joined them in protesting "Crisis Pregnancy Centers."

Now, I am ashamed that I ever protested those wonderful places.

You know what these "evil" people do? They give away two years worth of free diapers, toys, and baby supplies to low income moms. They also provide free parenting classes and help sign moms up to medicaid and other social services. The volunteers at the crisis pregnancy centers I visited were some of the kindest people I've ever met.

When I was a homeless mom in San Francisco I would have LOVED to have access to a crisis pregnancy center.

But in Blue cities, it's much easier to get an abortion than it is to get free diapers (or a decent affordable place to live). In fact, there was an extremely strong anti-child vibe in SF when I lived there.

"Can't afford a nice apartment loser? Tough luck. You and your failed abortion can sleep on the street." They'll give you free condoms and clean needles in SF, but no free diapers.

For most women who get abortions, it's not a "choice" but an emergency.

A Democratic party that truly cared about poor women would try to make it far easier for pregnant women to choose life.

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9A's avatar

The other big litmus test I'm seeing from party operatives is transgender rights. Not the "live and let live" sort of "Adults can choose what to do with their bodies" but rather the bleeding edge trans activist approach that normalizes medical interventions in childhood that are increasingly being refused by northern European countries. Once again (irony?) it's worth mentioning that Planned Parenthood is the one of the nation's largest supplier of hormones for young people who want to medicalize their gender dysphoria without proper consultation.

https://www.thefp.com/p/how-did-planned-parenthood-become

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