Abortion Access Is an Economic Justice Issue, and Democrats Should Remember That

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Recently, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), known for his laserlike focus on economic justice, was asked in an MSNBC interview whether Democrats can “be open to candidates that may not be rigidly pro-choice, may not be rigidly pro-gun control

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Can someone - anyone - point me to any pro-Hillary liberal or feminist who's writing an article denouncing this? https://t.co/NCTc1DNBpD
- kiran کرن فاطمہ (@KiranOpal) May 3, 2017

This, for me, is not *just* about pointing out their hypocrisy - it's about seeing whether they care about reproductive rights or not.
- kiran کرن فاطمہ (@KiranOpal) May 3, 2017

Seriously though a leader of the Democratic Party just said abortion doesn't matter and the only people who are mad about it are Leftists
- Woke Gary Gygax☀️🌹☭ (@gatorgoat) May 3, 2017

What exactly would Dem leadership have to do to piss off the #RESISTANCE
- Woke Gary Gygax☀️🌹☭ (@gatorgoat) May 3, 2017

Abortion was something Bernie was attacked unfairly on yet when Pelosi actually attacks it, crickets
- Woke Gary Gygax☀️🌹☭ (@gatorgoat) May 3, 2017

If your politics doesn't include principles, it's not politics, it's a fandom
- Woke Gary Gygax☀️🌹☭ (@gatorgoat) May 3, 2017

I will wait for the outrage from democrats on how Pelosi needs to be expelled from the party

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Pelosi does need to stop. Nobody cares about us from either side of the party.

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she is literally the worst. these are the people we are supposed to believe will fight for us against Trump.

. @EvanMcS asks @NancyPelosi if single payer should be a Democratic Party platform in 2018.

"No," she says, without missing a beat
- sick transit, gloria (@samknight1) May 4, 2017

. @NancyPelosi A lot of people quote tweeting this and saying Democrats like to lose and I agree
- sick transit, gloria (@samknight1) May 4, 2017

. @NancyPelosi Hey @NancyPelosi I wrote about you lol https://t.co/OicSn7cebH
- sick transit, gloria (@samknight1) May 4, 2017

The singing was an absurdity, really did make it look like most House Democrats only cared about partisan warfare (which may be true) pic.twitter.com/vpLLPrNGym
- Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) May 5, 2017

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"Can someone - anyone - point me to any pro-Hillary liberal or feminist who's writing an article denouncing this?"

If you mean denouncing Pelosi's stance, I haven't been able to find anything so far, which surprises me.

I'm actually starting to see this as a semantic issue, to a great extent. I keep reading articles that talk about Democrats who call themselves  "pro-life" but do not favor making laws that restrict access to abortion, people who say they personally don't like abortion but woulld not vote for laws that make it harder to get access to abortion care. That, to me, is pro-choice! If you don’t want to make laws that dictate everyone else's choices, you are by definition supporting choice, afaic.

By the same token, I've always assumed that when someone calls themselves "pro-life," that means they think abortion should be against the law. That's why I initially reacted so negatively to the idea of someone being a "pro-life Democrat." It sounded like an oxymoron to me. But these articles are telling me that there are people

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it doesn't surprise me that there are no think pieces about it. They didn't care when Hillary herself said she was willing to compromise on women's right to choose, or that Perez endorsed the exact same candidate as Bernie. It's not really about the issue so much as trying to lower Bernie's popularity enough so that the democrats don't need to listen to him. Of course, that does not make him endorsing Mello or his awful statement afterward OK, not in the least. I'd be happy if all democrats involved got the same level of criticism he has.

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+1

100% agree.