06-25-2022, 09:44 AM
(06-25-2022, 09:01 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: Not to mention that even the abortion topic alone is not just framed around the act of abortion. The rhetoric around abortion is that making it illegal is treating women as second-class citizens without full rights. That they do not have autonomy over their own bodies. Many women that never have had an abortion, or maybe never would consider getting one themselves, see this as a patriarchal move that disenfranchises them. That's the rhetoric around abortion for a large chunk of the population.
To add onto this topic with an anecdotal story, I married into a conservative family. My wife isn't opposed to voting blue (she never has), and I wouldn't be surprised if she does at some point in the future, but the rest of her family votes down party lines with no research. They vote Republican, or don't vote at all. I was mildly surprised to see the women in the family, despite being rather conservative individuals, speak out against the overturning of Roe v. Wade yesterday. I have never had the conversation with them, so I just never knew their stance but they are all pro-choice. Being in Oklahoma, abortion has already been ruled illegal and they were not happy about it.
Now, this is only three women that we are talking about, but there are other women who are in this exact same situation. I don't think this should be a partisan issue, and last I remember, abortion had rather overwhelming support across the country (I'll defer to you on whether my memory is correct there). It also made me think that most of the arguments that I have been aware of against abortion are typically men arguing it. This isn't to say that there aren't women who argue it, but I seem to see a disproportionate amount of men arguing against it in comparison to women.
