Survey: White evangelicals oppose abortion; all other religious groups support it
US religions have wide-ranging opinions on legality of abortion. But most support legal abortion.
We need to focus now on making the "abortion pill" available because they are going to try and stop it completely. This is not the same as a "morning after pill" but I'm sure they will go after that one also. It is also not anybodies business if a woman has a miscarriage.
"Hello. We are the Abortion Police and we need to come into your house and search for the miscarried fetus. Thankfully Mrs. Johnson from down the street was watching you and reported this possibility to us. Government also paid her a few bucks for her time and interest."
The evangelicals' disproportionate political power stems from their persistence, long-term strategy, and politicization of their congregations. That and the Republicans use of abortion as a wedge issue (with other issues - guns, gays, etc.) has put them in the driver's seat.
Abortion bans don't bother the wealthy much - a Senator's daughter can fly to Paris for an abortion. "Some 75% of abortion patients have low incomes and the majority are already parents."
[guttmacher.org]
In the 1960s, before Roe v Wade, more Republicans than Democrats supported decriminalization of abortion. Catholics voted predominately Democratic. Nixon's advisors made a calculated decision to take an anti-abortion position in order to split the Catholic vote away from the Dems. Reagan executed that strategy to the hilt and Republicans embraced it.
The pro-choice majority has been complacent. But there is no reason why the power can't shift if we are persistent and play the smart long-term game. We must be mindful of the middle majority ("abortion should be legal in some cases, illegal in others" ) in the Pew survey cited in the article. Some of that middle's beliefs may be naive, but they are flexible.
I'm done with their bullshit.
I think it's time to start doing to them what they do outside women's clinics.
I'm ready to start picketing outside evangelical churches.
It's also time for everyone to start publicly calling them out for trying to make everyone else live the way they think we should.
This shit has got to stop. We have got to make it stop.
Voting is not enough anymore.
At this point, voting is a sham. We've controlled all three Houses for the last two years and this nightmare hasn't been hindered at all by our advantage. These people have flourished in the minority just as well as they would have had they still had the majority. Nothing is stopping them: their numbers are growing, and they're favored in the upcoming elections. Not to be nihlist but I think this country is spiraling the drain.
Stands to reason. This group above all others are the most militant and in your face. Their interpretation of the buybull is pretty wacky too!
Welcome to the hellscape of Christian supremacism.
That's because most countries aren't hurtling headlong into a xian conservative hellscape with the bible in one hand and a picture of Trump in the other. Right now, the USA is the most backwards leaning industrialized nation anywhere. We're going backwards, not forwards thanks to the unholy alliance between psycho xian evangelicals and ultra conservative republicans. It's the most combustible mixture since fire and gas.