Michelle Obama’s speech both awed and infuriated me. Where is messaging from other Dems clearly articulating the consequences to women’s healthcare after Roe’s fall? We need statistics and stories that personalize the issue. We need men to understand that this is not just about pregnancy - it’s about your female relatives not getting cancer care, treatment for autoimmune disease, etc. We shouldn’t have to wait for Michelle to take the mic.though bless her.
@greenorchids The problem is that we keep hearing such stories and then noticing that they're just not true, noticing that what people say about the law doesn't correspond with what we can read in the law for ourselves.
If you want to be convincing, this strategy of making it personal hasn't been working because the rhetoric just doesn't match the facts.
It ends up preaching to the choir. It doesn't really get anyone anywhere except more divided and less likely to find ways forward.
@samueljohnson not only do I think, but I'm informed enough to know that these sensationalized stories are just wrong.
The laws are public record. We can look them up for ourselves to see that these propaganda pieces are just misleading us, put out by special interest groups with power to try to sway the public.
Sadly, too few people know their basic civics well enough to catch the lies, so they fall for it.
But the clicks are there, the profit is there, so it will continue.
@volkris @greenorchids Right, these "sensationalised" stories are all the same? Do yourself a favour and read Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish blog articles on late term abortions.
@volkris @greenorchids Keep hearing such stories and then finding they are not true.
You think?
How many avoidable deaths would you consider acceptable?
The Irish people decided the right answer was: none
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Savita_Halappanavar