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PlanetBev

(4,104 posts) Fri Oct 12, 2012, 03:44 PM Oct 2012

How could women not know that Republicans are a threat to reproductive rights?

I'm hearing that Obama has lost women since last week's debate. The gender gap was partially from the relentless attack on abortion and birth control.

The Republicans first put an anti-choice position in their convention plank in 1976 and passed the Hyde Amendment in 1977. They've been harrassing women non-stop since the Supreme Court first handed down Roe v. Wade in 1973.

What do fence-sitting women think? That Republicans are their friends?

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How could women not know that Republicans are a threat to reproductive rights? (Original Post) PlanetBev Oct 2012 OP

They've been so brainwashed that they accept the lies the Republicans tell. CaliforniaPeggy Oct 2012 #1

You might want to take out the second 'not' Angry Dragon Oct 2012 #2

Thanks PlanetBev Oct 2012 #3

Spoke to a female Rmoney voter yesterday... polichick Oct 2012 #4

This is typical. R's don't care about anything that doesn't affect them personally. mnhtnbb Oct 2012 #5

Some women think Abortion should be illegal VirginiaTarheel Oct 2012 #6

A lot of women are Republicans TroyD Oct 2012 #7

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,660 posts)

1. They've been so brainwashed that they accept the lies the Republicans tell.

Reply to PlanetBev (Original post)

Fri Oct 12, 2012, 03:46 PM

Oct 2012

Angry Dragon

(36,693 posts)

2. You might want to take out the second 'not'

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Fri Oct 12, 2012, 03:46 PM

Oct 2012

PlanetBev

(4,104 posts)

3. Thanks

Reply to Angry Dragon (Reply #2)

Fri Oct 12, 2012, 03:48 PM

Oct 2012

Done...

polichick

(37,152 posts)

4. Spoke to a female Rmoney voter yesterday...

Reply to PlanetBev (Original post)

Fri Oct 12, 2012, 03:48 PM

Oct 2012

When I asked why a woman would vote against women's rights, she said she was only concerned about military spending (her husband's salary) and didn't care about "all that."

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mnhtnbb

(31,398 posts)

5. This is typical. R's don't care about anything that doesn't affect them personally.

Reply to polichick (Reply #4)

Fri Oct 12, 2012, 04:03 PM

Oct 2012

VirginiaTarheel

(823 posts)

6. Some women think Abortion should be illegal

Reply to PlanetBev (Original post)

Fri Oct 12, 2012, 04:08 PM

Oct 2012

Especially in The South and Midwest

TroyD

(4,551 posts)

7. A lot of women are Republicans

Reply to PlanetBev (Original post)

Fri Oct 12, 2012, 04:34 PM

Oct 2012

Not as many as men, but they are still a huge bulk of the Republican electorate.

American women are much more conservative than women in other Western countries.

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