It is a wedge issue that has locked a portion of the population who are single issue voters into being Republicans despite literally all their other beliefs. That is basically what all the non-financial planks of the Republican platform have on common.

I don’t know anybody that votes republican because of their abortion stance that doesn’t also agree with the rest of the party’s policies.

My mom was one. Didn’t realize until I was older, and long after she died. But yeah, she only voted Republican because she was anti abortion. She had an abortion and suffered from unintended side effects and didn’t want other women to experience the same. I get where she was coming from, but she definitely had the wrong idea with banning abortion.

Oddly enough, it was a comment on Reddit that opened my eyes to everything. Something along the lines of “Dems don’t want women to have abortions. But we’d like the choice if need be.”

Wow I’ve never heard of someone wanting to ban a medical procedure all together because they experienced an adverse effect of it. Thanks for the view into a psyche that I didn’t know about.

Scientists can tell with like 80% accuracy what the political identity of an American is… just from a brain scan.

If the prefrontal cortex is larger and more active, that person is likely to be empathetic and use higher reasoning to control their emotion. Those people overwhelmingly vote Dem.

If the amygdala is larger and more active, then that person is more likely to feel fear or anger and act based on those emotions without thinking.

Then there’s the 20% where they’re just kind of average and it’s a coin toss.

That is why a woman can view her individual experience decades ago with an abortion and use that to rationalize not letting any woman get one now.

She’s not empathetic enough to understand other women may be in a worse spot than she’d have been if she kept.

She isn’t using the critical thinking to understand decades of medical advancement means it’s a lot safer now.

But she is still in fear of her bad outcome.

And she’s still angry she had complications.

If it doesn’t make sense to you, it’s because you’re brain isn’t working the same as the other side. The tragedy is only one side is usually able to understand it. The other side just keeps ranting about crazy shit because they’re constantly terrified or pissed off about a hypothetical.

Really? You want to try and play that card mr mengele?

At no point did I say this was genetic or couldn’t be changed…

If you weren’t a dick, I probably would have explained that for you.

Do t think you’d have understood, but I’d have given it a shot.

Oh I understood you, it was a little difficult with your head shoved so far up your own ass on that pedestal you built for yourself, but i managed.

So you do understand, you’re just pretending not to?

Have fun with that then

You just want to try and feel superior to others and your "study" involved 82 people.

That is too small of a sample size to be worth anything, especially since they were dealing with gambling, you know that thing that produces addictive dopamine spikes, and is therefore biased from the beginning.