Wednesday, November 7, 2018

i've been over this repeatedly - the idea that hillary clinton is a pro-choice warrior or a crusader for women's rights is actually just right-wing propaganda. really. and, it forms a part of a canon of myths about the democratic party.

another is that the democrats are less violent on immigration; of course, they aren't. obama deported more people than any other president in history. he set up a quota system, for fuck's sake.

a third is that they're pacifists, or anti-war.

so, it makes sense to send people that think she would have been better on abortion to the same debunking web sites that you send people that think she eats babies, because it's actually the same source of misinformation:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/boycott36-clinton-sanders-late-term-abortion/

she actually mentioned her support for a ban on late-term abortions (with the usual republican list of exceptions for rape and health) several times during the last campaign, including as answers in several televised debates. this is very well-known.

now, it's easy to say something like "this is reasonable. it's moderate. nobody likes abortions. safe, accessible and rare is just being a decent person, who opposes that?".

...except that when you really take a look at what she says, you realize that there's very little daylight between where she stands and where the mainstream of the republican party is.

most republicans don't support a full ban, and because roe v wade is settled english common law, you need to be extremely cynical to suggest a court can just overturn it outright. that is scare-mongering. if the republicans get their way on this, it's going to be some kind of partial personhood amendment with the list of exceptions - pretty much exactly what clinton proposes.

i support abortion rights. fully. abortion is a choice, and it is the choice that needs to be upheld. and that was one of the reasons i opposed clinton - she doesn't agree with that.