Comments on: Friday Talking Points -- The Abortion Election http://www.chrisweigant.com/2024/04/12/friday-talking-points-the-abortion-election/ Reality-based political commentary Sun, 10 May 2026 01:41:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2024/04/12/friday-talking-points-the-abortion-election/#comment-208492 Elizabeth Miller Mon, 15 Apr 2024 23:29:45 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=24914#comment-208492 Oh, Caddy ... where are you!? I'm waiting for your response to my addressing of your comment with video link. :-) It's just not right that you make me wait. Hope all is well! Oh, Caddy ... where are you!? I'm waiting for your response to my addressing of your comment with video link. :-)

It's just not right that you make me wait.

Hope all is well!

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2024/04/12/friday-talking-points-the-abortion-election/#comment-208470 Elizabeth Miller Mon, 15 Apr 2024 01:23:18 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=24914#comment-208470 Okay, Caddy ... hope this works. Here is my <a href="http://www.chrisweigant.com/2024/04/10/arizona-supreme-courts-abortion-decision-could-hand-entire-state-to-democrats/#comment-208392" rel="nofollow">response</a> to the Peter Zeihan video. Hope you like it! Okay, Caddy ... hope this works.

Here is my response to the Peter Zeihan video.

Hope you like it!

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2024/04/12/friday-talking-points-the-abortion-election/#comment-208465 Elizabeth Miller Sun, 14 Apr 2024 22:52:14 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=24914#comment-208465 Back later, have to make dinner. Back later, have to make dinner.

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2024/04/12/friday-talking-points-the-abortion-election/#comment-208464 Elizabeth Miller Sun, 14 Apr 2024 22:51:19 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=24914#comment-208464 Caddy, <i>I’ve no idea what the hell this is. Waaay out of left field.</i> Hehehehehehehehehe. I agree. I was just trying to have some fun with you. I'm laughing with you, I swear! No, I'm sorry ... YOU swear but, that's a whole other matter. Ahem. Humph. As for addressing your Peter Zeihan video, I addressed it already. Didn't you see it? Do I have to post a permalink!? Caddy,

I’ve no idea what the hell this is. Waaay out of left field.

Hehehehehehehehehe.

I agree. I was just trying to have some fun with you. I'm laughing with you, I swear! No, I'm sorry ... YOU swear but, that's a whole other matter. Ahem. Humph.

As for addressing your Peter Zeihan video, I addressed it already. Didn't you see it? Do I have to post a permalink!?

]]> By: MtnCaddy http://www.chrisweigant.com/2024/04/12/friday-talking-points-the-abortion-election/#comment-208452 MtnCaddy Sun, 14 Apr 2024 15:59:02 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=24914#comment-208452 <i>That Peter Zeihan guy comes across as a very angry and controlling man who talks in simplistic terms. In fact, he sounds like the type of person who would want to impose his will on a woman and her reproductive rights because he is pro-life and then force her to have an abortion when he doesn't wish to take responsibility for his own desires.</i> I’ve no idea what the hell this is. Waaay out of left field. Now please respond to the CONTENT this five minute summary of why Biden/NATO was not, as you’ve said, at fault in any way. https://youtu.be/Rh4QU7hxKVg?si=0qJ_fWokMxRoMyHn That Peter Zeihan guy comes across as a very angry and controlling man who talks in simplistic terms. In fact, he sounds like the type of person who would want to impose his will on a woman and her reproductive rights because he is pro-life and then force her to have an abortion when he doesn't wish to take responsibility for his own desires.

I’ve no idea what the hell this is. Waaay out of left field. Now please respond to the CONTENT this five minute summary of why Biden/NATO was not, as you’ve said, at fault in any way.

https://youtu.be/Rh4QU7hxKVg?si=0qJ_fWokMxRoMyHn

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2024/04/12/friday-talking-points-the-abortion-election/#comment-208434 Elizabeth Miller Sun, 14 Apr 2024 03:44:10 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=24914#comment-208434 Oh, I forgot, this ain't exactly the fun crowd, is it. :-) Oh, I forgot, this ain't exactly the fun crowd, is it. :-)

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2024/04/12/friday-talking-points-the-abortion-election/#comment-208433 Elizabeth Miller Sun, 14 Apr 2024 03:43:17 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=24914#comment-208433 Where is everybody!? Where is everybody!?

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2024/04/12/friday-talking-points-the-abortion-election/#comment-208432 Elizabeth Miller Sun, 14 Apr 2024 03:42:30 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=24914#comment-208432 If this coming presidential election is going to be the abortion election, then we are in for some fun times here in Weigantia, I predict. :) If this coming presidential election is going to be the abortion election, then we are in for some fun times here in Weigantia, I predict. :)

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2024/04/12/friday-talking-points-the-abortion-election/#comment-208413 Elizabeth Miller Sat, 13 Apr 2024 10:24:11 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=24914#comment-208413 MyVoice, <i>This is so much bigger than abortion. The US already had the highest maternal mortality rate among developed nations and that rate continues to rise.</i> Indeed! Time to expand the discussion from abortion and all of its horror stories to a woman's reproductive rights and women's healthcare crisis ... how much more dire does this need to get? MyVoice,

This is so much bigger than abortion. The US already had the highest maternal mortality rate among developed nations and that rate continues to rise.

Indeed!

Time to expand the discussion from abortion and all of its horror stories to a woman's reproductive rights and women's healthcare crisis ... how much more dire does this need to get?

]]> By: MyVoice http://www.chrisweigant.com/2024/04/12/friday-talking-points-the-abortion-election/#comment-208410 MyVoice Sat, 13 Apr 2024 06:56:24 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=24914#comment-208410 Let us not forget that the already troublesome shortage of ob/gyns in the US is creating a dangerous maternity care gap that is continuing to grow. The March of Dimes <a href="https://www.marchofdimes.org/maternity-care-deserts-report" rel="nofollow">NOWHERE TO GO: MATERNITY CARE DESERTS ACROSS THE U.S. (2022 REPORT)</a> reported an alarming uptick in maternity care deserts just since the prior year. Their 2023 report noted "more than one-third of counties in the nation "maternity care deserts," (sic) meaning they do not have a hospital or birth center offering obstetric care and or any obstetric providers. In Texas, the statistic is worse, with 46.5% of counties characterized as deserts." Now I'm reading that half the counties in the US have no ob/gyns. This gap has been exacerbated by the Dobbs decision. Not only are ob/gyns moving out of states with abortion bans, but fewer applications for ob/gyn residencies are down across the US, but especially in those states with abortion bans. I don't know that medical students are switching to other specialties at an increasing rate, but it wouldn't surprise me. Who needs a job that comes complete with a sword of Damocles hanging over their head? This is so much bigger than abortion. The US already had the highest maternal mortality rate among developed nations and that rate continues to rise. Can we pedal backward any faster? Let us not forget that the already troublesome shortage of ob/gyns in the US is creating a dangerous maternity care gap that is continuing to grow. The March of Dimes NOWHERE TO GO: MATERNITY CARE DESERTS ACROSS THE U.S. (2022 REPORT) reported an alarming uptick in maternity care deserts just since the prior year.

Their 2023 report noted "more than one-third of counties in the nation "maternity care deserts," (sic) meaning they do not have a hospital or birth center offering obstetric care and or any obstetric providers. In Texas, the statistic is worse, with 46.5% of counties characterized as deserts." Now I'm reading that half the counties in the US have no ob/gyns.

This gap has been exacerbated by the Dobbs decision. Not only are ob/gyns moving out of states with abortion bans, but fewer applications for ob/gyn residencies are down across the US, but especially in those states with abortion bans. I don't know that medical students are switching to other specialties at an increasing rate, but it wouldn't surprise me. Who needs a job that comes complete with a sword of Damocles hanging over their head?

This is so much bigger than abortion. The US already had the highest maternal mortality rate among developed nations and that rate continues to rise.

Can we pedal backward any faster?

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2024/04/12/friday-talking-points-the-abortion-election/#comment-208404 Elizabeth Miller Sat, 13 Apr 2024 01:55:36 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=24914#comment-208404 <i>This is a question of freedom. The freedom for you and your doctor to make medical decisions -- even extremely heart-wrenching ones -- without a gaggle of theocratic politicians looking over your shoulders and telling you what you can and can't do with your own body. This is the freedom Donald Trump has taken away from tens of millions of American women. And he brags about doing so! Democrats believe your body should belong to you. Not to Republicans in the government, not to Donald Trump. Not to some male judges. Only to you. And we believe that for all American women.</i> Of all the arguments outlined in this piece, this is the one that should resonate the most with most women ... and with men who have a healthy relationship with sex and sexuality. This is a question of freedom. The freedom for you and your doctor to make medical decisions -- even extremely heart-wrenching ones -- without a gaggle of theocratic politicians looking over your shoulders and telling you what you can and can't do with your own body. This is the freedom Donald Trump has taken away from tens of millions of American women. And he brags about doing so! Democrats believe your body should belong to you. Not to Republicans in the government, not to Donald Trump. Not to some male judges. Only to you. And we believe that for all American women.

Of all the arguments outlined in this piece, this is the one that should resonate the most with most women ... and with men who have a healthy relationship with sex and sexuality.

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2024/04/12/friday-talking-points-the-abortion-election/#comment-208403 Elizabeth Miller Sat, 13 Apr 2024 01:50:20 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=24914#comment-208403 <i>when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the protections of Roe v. Wade, it all got very real, very quickly. Now blithely stating that you think "life begins at conception" will mean that in some states, in-vitro fertilization will essentially be outlawed. Or that rape victims will be forced to carry their rapist's baby to term, whether they want to or not.</i> Republicans are aiming to ban more than just abortions and are targeting the full range of reproductive rights of women. I hope the argument against Republicans will start emphasizing all of it. Expanding the discussion to include all manner of ways in which women have been sexualized and underappreciated sexually in the culture at large wouldn't hurt the Democratic effort to win in 2024, either. when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the protections of Roe v. Wade, it all got very real, very quickly. Now blithely stating that you think "life begins at conception" will mean that in some states, in-vitro fertilization will essentially be outlawed. Or that rape victims will be forced to carry their rapist's baby to term, whether they want to or not.

Republicans are aiming to ban more than just abortions and are targeting the full range of reproductive rights of women. I hope the argument against Republicans will start emphasizing all of it. Expanding the discussion to include all manner of ways in which women have been sexualized and underappreciated sexually in the culture at large wouldn't hurt the Democratic effort to win in 2024, either.

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2024/04/12/friday-talking-points-the-abortion-election/#comment-208402 Elizabeth Miller Sat, 13 Apr 2024 01:37:46 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=24914#comment-208402 <i>Back then, the speaker of their house chamber was a man named William Claude Jones. After Jones's first wife divorced him, he married a woman he declared was 12 years old. When he moved to the Arizona territory, he married a third woman, who was 15 years old. Jones himself was around 50 at the time. He abandoned her within a year, and headed off to Hawai'i where he married "a princess from a noble family" -- who was 14 years old.</i> Shocking. Positively shocking. What do we know about that first wife? Inquiring minds would like to know. Seriously! Back then, the speaker of their house chamber was a man named William Claude Jones. After Jones's first wife divorced him, he married a woman he declared was 12 years old. When he moved to the Arizona territory, he married a third woman, who was 15 years old. Jones himself was around 50 at the time. He abandoned her within a year, and headed off to Hawai'i where he married "a princess from a noble family" -- who was 14 years old.

Shocking. Positively shocking.

What do we know about that first wife? Inquiring minds would like to know. Seriously!

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2024/04/12/friday-talking-points-the-abortion-election/#comment-208401 Elizabeth Miller Sat, 13 Apr 2024 01:31:16 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=24914#comment-208401 <i>We will doubtlessly be seeing a lot more of [vice president Harris] out on the campaign trail, hitting this issue hard. President Biden has had a more complicated political stance on abortion (everyone tends to forget this, but he's only the second practicing Catholic president America has ever had), but Harris does not. She speaks from the heart and she speaks for tens of millions of women when she does so.</i> That is all true but, Biden should not play second fiddle on this issue. He needs to be leading this effort for obvious reasons. He's old enough to know just what needs to be done here, in other words. :-) We will doubtlessly be seeing a lot more of [vice president Harris] out on the campaign trail, hitting this issue hard. President Biden has had a more complicated political stance on abortion (everyone tends to forget this, but he's only the second practicing Catholic president America has ever had), but Harris does not. She speaks from the heart and she speaks for tens of millions of women when she does so.

That is all true but, Biden should not play second fiddle on this issue. He needs to be leading this effort for obvious reasons. He's old enough to know just what needs to be done here, in other words. :-)

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2024/04/12/friday-talking-points-the-abortion-election/#comment-208400 Elizabeth Miller Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:55:14 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=24914#comment-208400 Sorry about that. Did someone mention something about an edit function? <i>[Republicans] have supported the concept of "life begins at conception" for decades now, but for all that time it was merely an abstraction.</i> Heh. Some of them would make the argument that it begins before that! Sorry about that. Did someone mention something about an edit function?

[Republicans] have supported the concept of "life begins at conception" for decades now, but for all that time it was merely an abstraction.

Heh. Some of them would make the argument that it begins before that!

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2024/04/12/friday-talking-points-the-abortion-election/#comment-208399 Elizabeth Miller Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:53:54 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=24914#comment-208399 <i>[Republicans] have supported the concept of "life begins at conception" for decades now, but for all that time it was merely an abstraction.,/i> Heh. Some of them would make the argument that it begins before that! [Republicans] have supported the concept of "life begins at conception" for decades now, but for all that time it was merely an abstraction.,/i>

Heh. Some of them would make the argument that it begins before that!

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