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House GOP grapples with abortion messaging after Alabama law

The conservative Republican Study Committee — the largest GOP caucus in the House — circulated talking points to its members about how they should defend the lack of exceptions for rape and incest in the Alabama law and other state bills, according to Vice News.

“Committing a second violent act with abortion to a woman who has already been victimized by an act of rape or incest could physically or psychologically wound her further,” the document states. “Every single child should be afforded the opportunity to live, regardless of how they were conceived.”
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https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/29/house-republicans-abortion-alabama-1346087
 
that kind of language makes wrangor spontaneously ejaculate
 
america the only developed country where abortion is even a discussion.
 
Evangelical Christianity is a scourge on our nation. Particularly as it intersects with politics.
 
Alabama has the highest infant mortality rate in the country, a rate that is nearly double the national rate, yet fetuses are the only things that the GOP seems to care about. Birth the baby and then fuck off, women. Good luck, it’d be a shame if something happened to it. Just don’t come crawling to us.
 
Newenglanddeac said:
House GOP grapples with abortion messaging after Alabama law

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https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/29/house-republicans-abortion-alabama-1346087
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One of the (very) few positives to be taken from the GOP's packing of the federal courts and Supreme Court will be watching them have a severe case of "be careful what you wish for." Roe v. Wade has actually been an enormous boon for Republicans since the late 70s, as it has given them a large and fanatically loyal voting bloc that cares only about overturning Roe. But if it ever it is overturned, then the GOP leadership knows that the momentum will abruptly shift to the pro-choice movement, including in a large number of red states. I've personally thought for a long time that the GOP leadership (and even many so-called Religious Right leaders), actually don't give a crap about abortion (and may have privately paid for some mistresses to get one), but they play it up to keep their base happy and enthusiastic.
 
Colonel Angus said:
Surely Governor Stacey Abrams can pull her weight and convince Netflix to stand down
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Well, since the good folks in rural Georgia wouldn't vote for her, she's not in a position to do much. The person they did vote for could if he wished, but he signed the bill into law, and is thus driving them away. Something about elections have consequences and all that. Georgia's film industry brings some $10 billion into the state each year, and provides an estimated 92,000 jobs, btw.
 
Georgia is a good example of those in power wanting to stay in power no matter the costs while hurting everybody. Georgia is on its way to purple. The only reason to move to Georgia is to the cities and that’s what people are doing, flocking to Atlanta for tech and film. Those that move to cities are what’s pushing the state purple as the population of those damn outsider liberals grows. The Atlanta metro area for the first time now is a majority voting group at something like 53% compared to the rest of Georgia.

So while abortion is used to control and stoke the base its unattended consequences of a mass exodus of jobs from the city, especially film by those that want to stay in power is an added bonus. Georgia republicans in office would rather Georgia slide back to Alabama and Mississippi status than continue its march towards more liberal. The only thing that prevented any of this the last few years was the previous governor was jobs and economy above all else.
 
Louis Gossett Jr said:
Georgia is a good example of those in power wanting to stay in power no matter the costs while hurting everybody. Georgia is on its way to purple. The only reason to move to Georgia is to the cities and that’s what people are doing, flocking to Atlanta for tech and film. Those that move to cities are what’s pushing the state purple as the population of those damn outsider liberals grows. The Atlanta metro area for the first time now is a majority voting group at something like 53% compared to the rest of Georgia.

So while abortion is used to control and stoke the base its unattended consequences of a mass exodus of jobs from the city, especially film by those that want to stay in power is an added bonus. Georgia republicans in office would rather Georgia slide back to Alabama and Mississippi status than continue its march towards more liberal. The only thing that prevented any of this the last few years was the previous governor was jobs and economy above all else.
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Those rural areas have to stay in power above all else! Given that the film industry is located in the Atlanta area, most rural areas won't give a crap if it leaves anyway, and will probably be delighted to know that "Hollywood Lib Elites" have been driven out of their family values state. When they drove the NC film industry out, one of the most common comments in the NC legislature from rural Republicans was that it was unfair that the film and television crews wouldn't film and work more in rural areas, and stayed in the cities, so they didn't care if they left or not. A self-destructive bunch, for sure.
 
“Committing a second violent act with abortion to a woman who has already been victimized by an act of rape or incest could physically or psychologically wound her further,” the document states.
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Because a woman isn't capable of making decisions on their own, an abortion must be something committed to her.

Thankfully a bunch of politicians are here to force her to carry a pregnancy to term. Which, of course, has no physical or psychological impact, so everything should be fine.
 
avalon said:
Because a woman isn't capable of making decisions on their own, an abortion must be something committed to her.

Thankfully a bunch of politicians are here to force her to carry a pregnancy to term. Which, of course, has no physical or psychological impact, so everything should be fine.
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and they'll be waiting with opening arms to welcome that baby into the world and help the mother provide top notch care and education
 
Pushing a human being out of a vagina is a pretty damn violent act and badass thing to do. Getting your stomach sliced open is pretty violent too.
 
AsesinoDeTortugas said:
Alabama has the highest infant mortality rate in the country, a rate that is nearly double the national rate, yet fetuses are the only things that the GOP seems to care about. Birth the baby and then fuck off, women. Good luck, it’d be a shame if something happened to it. Just don’t come crawling to us.
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The sad part is that much of Alabama is bordering on a third world country. There are incredibly poor counties with unsafe drinking water, tropical diseases, open sewage, etc. These are rural, primarily black counties in central and south west Alabama. But the state government, elected primarily by the wealth white municipalities, doesn’t seem to care and almost seems hellbent on making things worse. They turned down Medicaid expansion money under Obamacare, they restrict birth control access and eliminate abortion options, they have the worst public education system in the country and won’t fund schools, but have a huge budget for prisons. The state is a joke, but it’s also really shitty to write it off as a hopeless rubeville because the state has many problems that are solvable but the local governments refuse to act.
 
"The state is a joke, but it’s also really shitty to write it off as a hopeless rubeville because the state has many problems that are solvable but the local governments refuse to act."

That's a characteristic of a hopeless rubeville.
 
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