ANS -- more Brad Hicks on the abortion situation

Here's another Facebook post by Brad Hicks, with an interesting comment after. Bad word warning.

--Kim

Brad Hicks is feeling angry.

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What happened here?

Alright, let's start the traditional Democratic-Party circular firing squad here, this is as good a place as any.

What happened here is that once the court weighed in in Roe, pretty fucking nearly the entire Democratic Party and pretty fucking nearly all other liberals were eager and happy to stop talking about it at all, because it made them feel icky.

So for fifty fucking years now, the only people talking about abortion at all, in public, were the liars. The people who knew the truth, and especially the people who LIVED the truth, were made to feel embarrassed for speaking up, or just ignored if they did.

What just happened is what ALWAYS happens if you surrender the public debate to only one side. You lose 100% of the fights that you don't show up for. And for 50 years, we just stopped showing up.

Abortion is a routine outpatient medical procedure that will be needed by at least 1 in 4 women at least once in their lives. It has a lower complication rate than most forms of dental care. Neither science, nor any of the scriptures of any of the major world religions, describes a fetus, let alone a fertilized egg, as a person nor an abortion as murder.

This lying Supreme Court decision says that abortion was illegal in every state until the mid 20th century? Bull. It was, in fact, legal in every state prior to the 1830s. Abortion absolutely WAS legal, widely available, and uncontroversial when the framers wrote the Constitution.

But who was out there telling people this? Fuck-all near nobody, that's who. Who was out there lying to them? Millions of people.

THAT'S what just happened.

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• Charles Haines

  Actually Brad, I think what happened was a matter of messaging. But yes, pro-choicers muddled the messaging because they felt icky about it. I always cringed to hear anti-choicers call pro-choicers baby killers (or some variant) while pro-choicers never answered or disputed it.

  You can't go on with a public discussion while you leave that attack unchallenged. Pro-choicers simply tried to change the subject to women's rights. Yes, women's rights are important, but once you accept the label of "baby killer" unrefuted your status is less than zero. They couldn't take for granted that the audiences would see the charge as bogus. And by attaching women's rights to it, they just bring them into disrepute. I honestly wondered if pro-choicers actually thought they did murder babies.

  For fifty years, I watched pro-choicers lose doing that. I tried to tell them what they should say, but my message never caught on. I'm surprised abortion rights didn't fall long before this. Here's the answer to that: a fetus isn't a baby, isn't a person.

  Here's my own article about it:

  https://medium.com/.../pro-choicers-have-been-losing-for...

  

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  Pro-Choicers Have Been Losing for Almost Fifty Years & I'm Tired of It

  Pro-Choicers Have Been Losing for Almost Fifty Years & I'm Tired of It

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