(Shrug)
Going after abortion without tackling the larger economic problems is counterproductive.
You may not like it, but abortion does have SOME effect against poverty, despite its equal effect in facilitating bad decisions and risk taking.
What's particularly galling is that Republicans have repeatedly FAILED eliminate the more expensive incentives for people to act irresponsibly, like welfare. Abortion, for better or worse, "costs" nothing to the taxpayer, while housing assistance, food assistance, and direct payments cost quite a lot. I take a dim view of attempts to own the libs by killing abortion because it's an easier win than going after the money or fixing trade deficits.
Politicians screeching about dead babies does not reduce my tax bill, and I resent that the christian right has been able to monopolize conservatism for my entire lifetime over something so tangential to the actual role of government.
I DON'T CARE. If the cost of moving on to tackle real issues is dead babies, then so be it. That's why Trump was such a great Republican president, because his entire stance on abortion basically amounted to "appointing anti-abortion justices" and leaving it for the courts to sort out.
(Shrug)
Going after abortion without tackling the larger economic problems is counterproductive.
You may not like it, but abortion does have SOME effect against poverty, despite its equal effect in facilitating bad decisions and risk taking.
What's particularly galling is that Republicans have repeatedly FAILED eliminate the more expensive incentives for people to act irresponsibly, like welfare. Abortion, for better or worse, "costs" nothing to the taxpayer, while housing assistance, food assistance, and direct payments cost quite a lot. I take a dim view of attempts to own the libs by killing abortion because it's an easier win than going after the money or fixing trade deficits.
Politicians screeching about dead babies does not reduce my tax bill, and I resent that the christian right has been able to monopolize conservatism for my entire lifetime over something so tangential to the actual role of government.
I DON'T CARE. If the cost of moving on to tackle real issues is dead babies, then so be it.
(Shrug)
Going after abortion without tackling the larger economic problems is counterproductive.
You may not like it, but abortion does have SOME effect against poverty, despite its equal effect in facilitating bad decisions and risk taking.
What's particularly galling is that Republicans have repeatedly FAILED eliminate the more expensive incentives for people to act irresponsibly, like welfare. Abortion, for better or worse, "costs" nothing to the taxpayer, while housing assistance, food assistance, and direct payments cost quite a lot. I take a dim view of attempts to own the libs by killing abortion because it's an easier win than going after the money or fixing trade deficits.
Politicians screeching about dead babies does not reduce my tax bill, and I resent that the christian right has been able to monopolize conservatism for my entire lifetime over something so tangential to the actual role of government.
(Shrug)
Going after abortion without tackling the larger economic problems is counterproductive.
You may not like it, but abortion does have SOME effect against poverty, despite its equal effect in facilitating bad decisions and risk taking.
What's particularly galling is that Republicans have repeatedly FAILED eliminate the more expensive incentives for people to act irresponsibly, like welfare. Abortion, for better or worse, "costs" nothing to the taxpayer, while housing assistance, food assistance, and direct payments cost quite a lot. I take a dim view of attempts to own the libs by killing abortion because it's an easier win than going after the money or fixing trade deficits.