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TheRaoulDuke ago

For one: They evidently don't understand that, while doing a keg stand in one's youth is not disqualifying for the Supreme Court, discussing how one will rule on the court -- based on their own personal beliefs -- very much is disqualifying. They took justice Kavanaugh's staunch resistance to address how he'd rule on cases involving Roe v. Wade as meaning that he wanted to overturn Roe v. Wade, which... it doesn't mean that. At all.

For second: The subject of abortion has long been oversimplified in our public discourse, with the reason being its value as a political weapon when it's oversimplified. The truth is that abortions -- all of them -- pale in comparison to the amount of cruelty involved in cases like these, which often involved staunch anti-abortion parents elected to let their disabled -- often with down syndrome -- children to be born and then starve to death*, because they didn't want them.

Abortion is something that needs to stop being a political issue. It's one of those very difficult conversations the nation needs to have, rather than maintain it as a convenient political card to play.