OMG, what the f**k is wrong with the progressive media, the Democratic Party and our female leaders? Are we actually going back to the time when Pro-choice was a negotiable policy rather than a civil and human rights issue?
Bernie Sanders, in his support of anti-choice Democratic Nebraska Mayoral candidate Heath Mello, said in so many words that sure, Mello’s anti choice, but he’s right on all the important issues. WTF? First of all, let’s be clear. As Elizabeth Warren, Nancy Pelosi and a number of other women in Congress said in the last few days, pro-life people of all stripes are welcome into the Democratic Party. That’s okay with me, I happen to think that pro-choice advocates are pro life as well.
What they are not welcome to is an endorsement from the party or other Democratic leaders if they have, as Mello has, supported anti-choice laws that make it either impossible or add an extra burden to women who have made the choice to end their pregnancy. He voted for, among other things, mandating that a woman have an ultra-sound before she is allowed to get an abortion. Not only is this forcing a woman to undergo a medically unnecessary procedure, if she doesn’t have the funds to pay for an ultra-sound, or the ability to come back to the clinic for both procedures, she’s s**t-out-of-luck.
Every time the Democrats want to widen their base of appeal, they kick a woman’s right to choose to the curb. Why is that? Is our platform written on an etch-a-sketch? Are our ideals and principles something we conveniently put to the side, cause, you know it’s only women’s reproductive rights, it’s nothing to get your knickers in a twist over.
God, I am tired of this. I’m tired of having fought so long and so hard with so many other women to keep moving backward. We now have a couple of generations of women who have grown up with Roe v Wade as the law of the land, and they think that they will always have it, that they don’t have to do anything to protect it. Well, I’ve got news for you, there are lots of people like Heath Mello, who says he’s a Democrat but is opposed to the right to choose. That’s fine, he’s entitled to his personal and religious beliefs. What is not fine, is he has acted on those beliefs and worked to end abortions or if not that, a woman’s ability to have access to one. That is not a Democratic value we should be endorsing.