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David's avatar

I read a Politico article last week that discussed the idea of smaller pro-choice bills being introduced that said the idea wasn't gaining traction because "most Senate Republicans favor exceptions for abortion when it comes to rape, incest or life of the mother — potentially complicating any Democratic attempt to use that issue as a wedge." And I'm sitting there gesticulating wildly at the computer screen thinking, if most Senate Republicans support the bill, the bill passes! You'd have actual federal protections that don't currently exist and will or will soon expand abortion rights in states that pass complete bans. Something better than a symbolic vote and it's dismissed.

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Rick Gore's avatar

If you really don’t want to hold votes for highly popular abortion legislative bills (like, say, requiring a rape and incest exception in any state abortion rule) because it angers The Groups, well, okay, even though I disagree with that I suppose I can understand it.

What I don’t understand is why you would hold a vote for a bill that you know isn’t going to clear 50 in the senate (and if you didn’t know, that’s just rank incompetence). That’s worse than doing nothing. A lot of progressives talk about how they want to kill the filibuster so we can get things done, and a vote that only hits 48 undermines that while broadcasting weakness to the pro-life side. WTF.

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