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A Vote for Joe is a Vote for Roe meme (Original Post) Buttoneer Mar 28 OP
Recommend! onecaliberal Mar 28 #1
It's been sitting there staring us in right in the face this whole time Fiendish Thingy Mar 28 #2
Wonderful !!! Talitha Mar 28 #3
I just pulled out my Roe Roe Roe your Vote tshirt. Time to start wearing it again Deuxcents Mar 28 #4
We have to do better than Roe. Roe is not enough. WhiskeyGrinder Mar 28 #5
Oh please NanaCat Mar 29 #17
I'm saying Roe itself is a shitty policy and that whatever abortion policy Democrats run on has to be better than Roe. WhiskeyGrinder Mar 29 #19
Except that women's anger is real and will drive them to the polls to vote Dem. CTyankee Mar 29 #21
Abortion rights are a fine issue to run on, as long as the policy we're promising isn't a shitty one. WhiskeyGrinder Mar 29 #22
Ideally, I'd like to have the decisiion to have/not have an abortion simply left to the woman, period. CTyankee Mar 29 #23
Which is not what Roe did. Roe is not ideal. WhiskeyGrinder Mar 29 #25
You are correct. CTyankee Mar 29 #27
This is a meme--- not a policy dissertation.... DemocraticPatriot Mar 29 #29
If Roe is codified and people have trouble getting abortions they need because of it, it's a policy problem. WhiskeyGrinder Mar 29 #30
PERFECT..!!!! Stuart G Mar 28 #6
it's fine...for those who know what roe means nt msongs Mar 28 #7
I'm willing to bet.... SergeStorms Mar 28 #15
Even stupid people know what Roe is. NanaCat Mar 29 #18
That's good! -nt CrispyQ Mar 28 #8
I love that! StarryNite Mar 28 #9
shut up and take my money! where do I get one! nt Javaman Mar 28 #10
Love it! Hikerchick57 Mar 28 #11
Hear, hear! Wednesdays Mar 28 #12
Vote Joe. Vote Roe. Demobrat Mar 28 #13
How about this? Buttoneer Mar 29 #20
I'm Serge Storms.... SergeStorms Mar 28 #14
TY!! Cha Mar 29 #16
The design is awful. Way too busy. Too many words also. Auggie Mar 29 #24
"JOE (EQUALS) ROE" ? fierywoman Mar 29 #28
Regardless what anyone tries to say, ANYONE not voting for Biden or Democrats is voting to ban abortion and women's JohnSJ Mar 29 #26

NanaCat

(1,161 posts)
17. Oh please
Fri Mar 29, 2024, 05:01 AM
Mar 29

You do realize that the Democrats aren't the GQP--they can multitask...right?

Anyway, Roe is a better issue to run on than 100% of whatever the ideological purity crowd wants to lose on.

WhiskeyGrinder

(22,357 posts)
19. I'm saying Roe itself is a shitty policy and that whatever abortion policy Democrats run on has to be better than Roe.
Fri Mar 29, 2024, 07:22 AM
Mar 29

CTyankee

(63,912 posts)
21. Except that women's anger is real and will drive them to the polls to vote Dem.
Fri Mar 29, 2024, 11:03 AM
Mar 29

I can't think of a better issue to run on.

If you are saying that Roe was not the best pro-choice policy to run on, that Roe was too flawed or that it should have been decided (as Justice Ginsburg said) under "equal access under the law," I would agree. And I also note that the Biden campaign is expanding the voice of women on reproductive rights and doing so loudly. In that regard "Roe" is a kind of shorthand for a panoply of reproductive rights issues, as we have seen. The Biden campaign is listening to women's voices.

WhiskeyGrinder

(22,357 posts)
22. Abortion rights are a fine issue to run on, as long as the policy we're promising isn't a shitty one.
Fri Mar 29, 2024, 12:37 PM
Mar 29

Roe was a shitty policy. Running on the promise of "restoring Roe" is shitty. People didn't get the abortions they wanted when Roe was in effect. People died under Roe. Roe has a made-up deadline when the right to an abortion expires. Using "Roe" as shorthand is garbage communication.

CTyankee

(63,912 posts)
23. Ideally, I'd like to have the decisiion to have/not have an abortion simply left to the woman, period.
Fri Mar 29, 2024, 12:52 PM
Mar 29

And doctors should practice good medicine. Period.

CTyankee

(63,912 posts)
27. You are correct.
Fri Mar 29, 2024, 01:44 PM
Mar 29

I used to work for Planned Parenthood (as a fundraising manager). The medical staff told me stories about the real lives of their patients and I would tell their stories in my direct mail appeals. Here in CT we had, of course, a proud history of the fight for reproductive rights. I am so glad I was a part of it. I won't forget the protesters yelling at the women who came to our PP facility. Some, of course, were there just for gyn care that, indeed, prevented unwanted pregnancies and the protesters knew that but didn't give a damn about their lives.

WhiskeyGrinder

(22,357 posts)
30. If Roe is codified and people have trouble getting abortions they need because of it, it's a policy problem.
Fri Mar 29, 2024, 05:22 PM
Mar 29

Roe was not the magic wand people seem to think it was.

SergeStorms

(19,201 posts)
15. I'm willing to bet....
Thu Mar 28, 2024, 11:52 PM
Mar 28

90% of voting age women know what "Roe" is all about. 100% of Democratic women, and probably 80% of republican women and independents.
I'd say 70% of voting age men know what "Roe" means. Close to 100% of Democratic men, and probably 40% of the knuckle draggers and independents.

I could be wrong, it's happened before, but I don't think those percentages are too far off.

It's the most important issue in this election, and Democratic women are going to carry the day for Joe Biden. As always.

NanaCat

(1,161 posts)
18. Even stupid people know what Roe is.
Fri Mar 29, 2024, 05:06 AM
Mar 29

They've spent over five decades trying to get rid of it, after all.

Where have you been not to realise that?

JohnSJ

(92,217 posts)
26. Regardless what anyone tries to say, ANYONE not voting for Biden or Democrats is voting to ban abortion and women's
Fri Mar 29, 2024, 01:36 PM
Mar 29

health in the country.

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