... is shine a light on the inherent hypocrisy and internal ill logic of various Republican policy positions developed over the past few decades
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A time where claiming that Trump is "telling it like it is" is apropos.
I have heard throughout my adult life that "abortion is murder" -- well, murder is a crime and crimes are punished, in most cases all accessories to the crime are just as guilty (if one were to take the narrow view that the abortionist is the lone "killer").
I think (and I suspect you and many of your friends feel similarly) that the anti-choice assertion that women who get abortions should not be punished is not borne out of a concern for women, but more out of misogyny and the belief that women are frail creatures unable to think and make important decisions for themselves, so of course they fall "victim" to the machinations of the dread abortionist.
Truly following through on the "murder" chant as Trump has suggested (and I'm sure will walk back or just deny he said, now that the RNC has taken him to the woodshed) exposes the injustice of the whole anti-choice position.
YES. This particular strain of Republicans display in every word and deed that they honestly feel women of any age have to be managed like 12-year-old children: old enough to do some useful grunt work nobody else wants to worry about, and babysit, but not quite smart enough to pull off major life decisions by themselves.
As for crime, every other crime I can think of seeks to penalize the person who instigated it. If you hire a contract killer to take out Snack, for example, I'm pretty sure you would both be charged (and you might even get it worse because you're the one who deliberated it). I hate to say it, but I almost think Trump's position might be the best thing that could happen to the pro-choice movement - yes indeed, let's treat abortion as a crime and lock up every woman who seeks or obtains one. Maybe even as batshit as the GOP is, this would tip the scales for the few sane ones who might be left to pull the brakes and go "whoa, whoa ... we need to stop this fight, there are other things we need to be focusing on."
Bottom line on the Abortion debate is that we have it because we as a society want it, even if we don't admit it. None of the million or so a year are by court order or government imposition.
Exactly. And even in the animal kingdom, there are plenty of species whose females can self-induce abortions in response to conditions of overpopulation or food shortages. It's not like the process of reproduction is (or indeed, should be) an entirely helpless, out-of-control process every living creature has to sit back and haplessly accept.
And I'm especially not going to listen to preaching about the morality of abortion out of a party whose platform simultaneously champions inequality in wealth and social justice, cutting economic welfare measures, capital punishment, and preemptive military strikes. You get the intentional post-fetal death and misery out of your party, THEN you can assume some superior morality over me.
Yep, that's exactly it: Trump shouts the true platform of the GOP out loud. A lot of us have known what Republicans are actually all about for years now, but they like to pretend otherwise.
Of course, if someone like Cruz actually gets the nomination, they'll go back to pretending. But they're all that bad, in some ways Cruz is even worse.
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I have heard throughout my adult life that "abortion is murder" -- well, murder is a crime and crimes are punished, in most cases all accessories to the crime are just as guilty (if one were to take the narrow view that the abortionist is the lone "killer").
I think (and I suspect you and many of your friends feel similarly) that the anti-choice assertion that women who get abortions should not be punished is not borne out of a concern for women, but more out of misogyny and the belief that women are frail creatures unable to think and make important decisions for themselves, so of course they fall "victim" to the machinations of the dread abortionist.
Truly following through on the "murder" chant as Trump has suggested (and I'm sure will walk back or just deny he said, now that the RNC has taken him to the woodshed) exposes the injustice of the whole anti-choice position.
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As for crime, every other crime I can think of seeks to penalize the person who instigated it. If you hire a contract killer to take out Snack, for example, I'm pretty sure you would both be charged (and you might even get it worse because you're the one who deliberated it). I hate to say it, but I almost think Trump's position might be the best thing that could happen to the pro-choice movement - yes indeed, let's treat abortion as a crime and lock up every woman who seeks or obtains one. Maybe even as batshit as the GOP is, this would tip the scales for the few sane ones who might be left to pull the brakes and go "whoa, whoa ... we need to stop this fight, there are other things we need to be focusing on."
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And I'm especially not going to listen to preaching about the morality of abortion out of a party whose platform simultaneously champions inequality in wealth and social justice, cutting economic welfare measures, capital punishment, and preemptive military strikes. You get the intentional post-fetal death and misery out of your party, THEN you can assume some superior morality over me.
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Of course, if someone like Cruz actually gets the nomination, they'll go back to pretending. But they're all that bad, in some ways Cruz is even worse.
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