Mastodawn

Jun 24, 2024

Charles Sykes thinks that the term "pro-life" lost all meaning with the Republican "victory" in stripping women of the right to abortion with the abolition of Roe v. Wade. As he states, he speaks as "a longtime supporter of the pro-life movement" who was aligned with it for nearly 50 years.

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https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/06/how-pro-life-lost-all-meaning/678784/

How ‘pro-life’ lost all meaning

The anti-abortion movement may have won the battle with <em>Dobbs</em>, but the war is just getting started.

The Atlantic

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William Lindsey

Jun 24, 2024

From where I stand, the term "pro-life" never HAD any real meaning, since the "pro-life" movement was from the outset about coercing instead of reasoning. It was about coercing the majority of Americans who do not share its religion-based conclusion that a human person is fully present from the moment of conception, and about putting women back into their "places."

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ChrisU Jun 25, 2024

@wdlindsy
Double speak has been one of the weapons used by the Republicans for decades to distort. Rember the bushies insisted on referring to the Democratic Party as the ‘Democrat Party’
#AllRepublicansAreTraitors
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William Lindsey

@chrisU You're absolutely right. Fundamental to it all is race-baiting, which has always been doublespeak, a wink-and-nudge way of talking with inbuilt plausible deniability.