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SpartanDem

(4,533 posts)
Mon Mar 25, 2013, 12:50 PM Mar 2013

Why are we letting the war on women happen?

I see a lot of bewilderment over the flurry of anti-women bills over the last few years. People wondering how can this be happening to us? It's simple we, people who support a women's right to choose, are letting it happen. The numbers don't lie, when the vast majority of pro-choice voters are not even willing to consider it an issue important enough consider at the ballot box, this is what you get. They know pro-choice voters will not hold them accountable for their vote and that anti-choice voters will.

One doesn't have to be the most brilliant political scientist to see how these numbers could also have a broader impact. Do you think those that say it should be illegal in all cases; the 73% who say it's important to their vote, call their politicians, donate money to anti-choice orgs? We can site the polls that show the majority of people in the country are pro-choice all day, but until that is reflected in the voting booth we're just twisting the wind.

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Why are we letting the war on women happen? (Original Post) SpartanDem Mar 2013 OP
That's just one part of the War On The 99%. hobbit709 Mar 2013 #1
Who is voting for all these anti-choice people katmondoo Mar 2013 #2
Not only are women voting for them SpartanDem Mar 2013 #3

katmondoo

(6,457 posts)
2. Who is voting for all these anti-choice people
Mon Mar 25, 2013, 12:56 PM
Mar 2013

Are women voting for them. Time for women to start rebelling and stand up to these creepy women haters.

SpartanDem

(4,533 posts)
3. Not only are women voting for them
Mon Mar 25, 2013, 06:23 PM
Mar 2013

,but some women who would consider themselves pro-choice. When the majority of people are pro-choice, but less than 1/3 of them think it's very important to their vote, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to do the math.

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