re: #517 lawhawk

I’m going to link back to my earlier response to Coulter’s article since it’s just as relevant now as when Big Steve cited to it earlier.

But I’ll add that she’s no where near the truth on “90 percent of the country agrees with us — such as bans on partial birth abortion, and parental and spousal notification laws — Akin and Mourdock decided to leap straight to the other end of the spectrum and argue for abortion positions that less than 1 percent of the nation agrees with.” That’s why they’re still pushing personhood amendments and other bills that get sponsorship from the GOP leadership, including Ryan himself.

Akin and Mourdock aren’t outliers. They’re signals of a larger movement within the GOP to curtail abortion. Their aspirations are to eliminate abortion in the US, and will use it as a weapon against funding for PP, which provides vital health services to women across the country.

The thing is that Coulter would reply to those people as I would: “You might want the law to be ‘against abortion in all cases’, but that just isn’t going to happen. The overwhelming majority of the public supports a rape/incest/life of the mother allowance for abortion. Trying to push your views into that kind of opposition will only result in your defeat and your cause getting nothing. Learn to accept a half of something instead of all of nothing.”