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!!
Hmmmm. Wonder why there seems to be not literally dozens of articles on Nancy Pelosi's view of abortion + the democratic party....
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Meanwhile, in the 2016 election, the “reproductive rights is an economic justice” message seemed to make inroads. Hillary Clinton was the first Democratic candidate running for president to affirm her commitment to repealing the Hyde Amendment, a legislative provision barring the use of federal funds to pay for abortion.
Late-Term Abortion Debate Reveals a Rift Between Clinton and Sanders https://t.co/OAeJpre72B
- Mother Jones (@MotherJones) March 11, 2016
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. @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 who want to wear the "pro-life" label but who DON’T want to outlaw abortion. If that's what the term "pro-choice Democrat" actually means, then that puts things on a rather different light..
I think there need to be some serious conversations about semantics and terminology, though. If there is so much of a stigma attached to the label "pro-choice" that people don't want to call themselves that, even though their actions say, "I am in favor of letting people make their own choices about abortion," then maybe we need some new terminology. Not that I have any idea what to call a person who is pro-choice but doesn't want to admit it, lol.
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100% agree.
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