RAPE AND INCEST SHOULD NEVER EVER BE A POLITICAL AGENDA

[LynneSin]

Anyone even trying to justify what the GOP or 'pro-lifers' are saying are just daft.

What a woman decides to do should she find herself pregnant after such a horrid crime is NONE OF OUR BUSINESS.

What we can, as a society, do is ensure that women who are dealing with rape/incest have access to healthcare, therapy and police - things they may ask for when dealing with rape/incest.

[cali]

1. well, that would be nice, but it is political

and that's the stage we have to fight it on. we can't afford to just say they shouldn't be political. We have to elect politicians who will fight for our rights to control our own bodies.

[LynneSin]

2. Not political because of any progressive

I know that's a GOP thing

[cali]

4. sure, but we can't afford to just say it's a GOP thing

and in any case, though no progressives may engage in it, plenty of dems do.

[jeff47]

7. To fight the "GOP thing" it has to be political.

The GOP has goten this far by progressives thinking it shouldn't be political.

[Control-Z]

3. NO PREGNANCY

for any woman should be political. What a woman does when she becomes pregnant is none of our damned business. Ever.

[leftstreet]

5. BUT THEN THEY'D HAVE TO TALK ABOUT JOBS & WAGES

and boring stuff like healthcare and the environment and housing and energy costs and....

[dmallind]

6. I suspect this is in response not to a justification but to a review of pro-lifers' hypocrisy

Your atatement as is is true enough but impossible. Lots of things should never ever be political agendas. Health care for all. Equality under the law for all. High quality education for all. But they are because we are forced to fight politically either to defend them or gain them. If we do not we'll lose any chance of them. And fighting politically for them involves understaqnding the opposition.