"The poll shows that women — particularly those who are older or are politically independent — are driving the late shift toward Harris.”

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    19 days ago

    The registered Democrat said she identifies as pro-life but doesn’t think anyone should make that choice for somebody else.

    That’s … pro-choice.

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      18 days ago

      Which is why allowing the right to use the label “pro-life” was a cardinal sin of the Democrats’ strategy

      I’m literally pro-life: I support saving lives whenever and wherever it’s reasonable to do so

      But I’m pro-choice, because I don’t think I should be the one to decide for everyone else which situation is reasonable and which isn’t. Also, women deserve basic fucking rights and bodily autonomy is, like, the number one most fundamental right

      We really ought to change the nature of the conversation: it’s not “pro-life”. It’s pro-enslavement, pro-religious-tyranny, and pro-absolutism

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        I mean, do the democrats have any power to stop them from using that label? Like, sure, they could make a point of always calling them something else, but if they always use that term to describe themselves, then it will end up in the public consciousness anyway even if only from people asking what they mean by it.

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      19 days ago

      But… But that allows others to handle things differently than you might based on the situation…

      Surely politicians should be dictating who can do what with their bodies?

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      18 days ago

      That’s the power of propaganda. As long as she is pro-choice in her voting, I don’t care what she thinks it’s called internally. Like the people who demonize Obamacare but support its individual policies. They usually vote against it though.