Reply #27: To the "many, many women" for whom abortion was a tragic choice [View All]

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it is simply the truth. But your problem isn't the truth: your problem is that Clinton didn't sufficiently pander to the minority, demanding that she reaffirm her prochoice stand by declaring that viewing abortion as equivalent to a vasectomy is also legitimate, and moreoever, declare that nobody who has an abortion should have a sense of wrong.

I guess I don't know who you think you are punishing, by taking a person whose prochoice bona fides is pretty much unquestioned--even you don't pretend that she is going to be anything but prochoice--and demand that she pander to the minority to the exclusion of the majority for no better reason than to have your specific stands aired. "What about those for whom a hysterectomy could be considered a difficult and tragic choice?" Who do you think is helped by that sort of rhetorical question? What ABOUT them?

You think you are putting Clinton on the spot, but in reality her decision is very simple: choosing between articulating moderate, normal positions that she actually believes or trying to convince you that she will never go back on choice by constantly articulating the most extreme ideological positions. She'll not get your vote, and she'll either win anyway, or she'll lose, and a prolife republican will be elected instead. Either way, it's another democratic issue blown to bits.