It did not seem to do the trick on Tuesday as very few Democrats (percentage) showed up at the primary. So MAYBE this will get a few more (hopefully a lot more) to show up in November. I certainly hope so. Unless we want more of this, everyone in Texas (Democrat) must show up to vote. And around the country too. Nobody is safe if the Republicans win both chambers or even keep the House and definitely in danger if they keep the state houses.

You have to work like hell just to keep threads on reproduction rights from sinking like stones even here on DU.

Here's the results of a poll taken in may 2012:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/31/us-usa-healthcare-women-idUSBRE84U05D20120531
U.S. women see assault on reproductive rights: poll
By David Morgan
WASHINGTON Thu May 31, 2012

(excerpt)
But the survey of 1,218 adults, conducted by the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation, said reproductive rights have not become a hot-button presidential campaign issue for women, who see the economy and jobs are far more important topics for Obama and his Republican rival Mitt Romney.

The data found that 31 percent of women believe there is a wide-scale effort to limit reproductive services. That includes about one-quarter of Republican women, 36 percent of Democrats and 31 percent of independents.

About 25 percent of men agree.... MORE

With numbers like that, we're not going to win against anti-choice forces. And guys, what the hell... only 25% of men think reproduction rights are threatened?!!

We can not go back there.



REC

something about that. Weird, but folks change.

I never understood the Christ mythos, it just doesn't play well. I would think you'd have to work very hard to believe it, or just shut-down and float along. If a person feels the need for spiritual belief their are many less macabre systems out there that neither require the suspension of disbelief nor the troublesome guilt of Christianity.

In 1970, I loaned my car for a 700 mile round-trip to a Mexican clinic to help a friend of a friend who was in trouble. The clinic wasn't bad, but they couldn't afford even an overnite stay, but were on the road within the hour.

I worked hard for Sarah Weddington's election to the Texas House (won easily). She argued Roe v. Wade the same year. There was palpable relief when the decision came down. Now, the laws here are relentlessly uprooting those protections.

We 60s lefties are the butt of jokes because we are old men, have guns, or think nature is more than a Disney movie.

Now it's slowly drifting back to the horrific "norm".

It won't make June Cleaver any more real, but conservatives desperately cling to the Beaver...

Yeah, I know that there are many who don't know how their own body works, but where was the effort to educate them a few years ago with the Rush/Fluke issue?

Yeah, I suspect that just about any woman with self-determination and means leaves Texas as soon as she can, but there are many who don't.

Why? With the shrinking demographic that supports the neanderthals that do these restrictions, just where do they get the base?

have replaced the older activists, and they really aren't much interested in politics or activism. It's a militant apathy which has become style. Funny thing, even some candidates and their organizations who know the old activists don't reach out to us for work. They may send out a mailer, sometimes an email, asking for $. I don't think they want anyone to the left of Bill Clinton hanging around!

Poor and undocumented women.