Some politicians who want to vilify opponents who support women's reproductive rights, have begun breathlessly accusing them of supporting "Abortion, right up to the moment of birth!"
The national Republican Party has focus-group tested, and rolled out this hideous phrase nationwide—including in Washington's Third Congressional District—for use against candidates who hope to codify the protections formerly provided by Roe v. Wade, until the Supreme Court recently overturned it.
Decisions around terminating a pregnancy are profoundly personal at any stage - vastly more so in the final months. Women don't carry a pregnancy that far, then just change their minds. This catch-phrase, that Republicans toss around like a political football, cruelly targets and distorts those who had hoped to become parents, but now face this tragic choice deep into a pregnancy.
Roe v. Wade never allowed so-called 'abortion on demand' in the latter stages of pregnancy. These are invariably situations where a termination is deemed medically necessary by the woman, and her medical care-giver ... the ONLY people rightfully involved in the decision.
The people promulgating this phrase, and the dehumanizing frivolousness it implies, don't care any more about the unborn than they do about the heartbroken expectant mother; they just know how to manipulate the fearful, to achieve their partisan ends. They are worthy only of our scorn and disgust for employing such cruelty.
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