The thing to understand is that anti-choice legislature has nothing to do with “children”.
It is about control and the ongoing efforts to make Gilead a reality. For women, pregnancy is a massive commitment that has long standing job, financial, and health implications. And the “threat” of pregnancy leads to a lot of chuds who find excuses to prevent women from taking leadership roles.
And same for controlling the populace as a whole. Shit happens and condoms aren’t 100% (assuming you were even taught they exist). And unexpected/unwanted pregnancies can lead to keeping the lower class low and so forth. Girlfriend is pregnant? Better be a man and drop out of school so you can get a job. I hear the military is hiring…
cerevant@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It is a wedge issue that has locked a portion of the population who are single issue voters into being Republicans despite literally all their other beliefs. That is basically what all the non-financial planks of the Republican platform have on common.
NewNewAccount@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I don’t know anybody that votes republican because of their abortion stance that doesn’t also agree with the rest of the party’s policies.
Enigma@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
My mom was one. Didn’t realize until I was older, and long after she died. But yeah, she only voted Republican because she was anti abortion. She had an abortion and suffered from unintended side effects and didn’t want other women to experience the same. I get where she was coming from, but she definitely had the wrong idea with banning abortion.
Oddly enough, it was a comment on Reddit that opened my eyes to everything. Something along the lines of “Dems don’t want women to have abortions. But we’d like the choice if need be.”
anonono@lemmy.world 1 year ago
they may be smart enough to avoid telling you they are voting republican.
rynzcycle@kbin.social 1 year ago
Unfortunately I do, much of my extended family is what I call consistent Catholic. They oppose the death sentence, are in favour of funding good education and social programs, and yet, somehow every election they vote R because the pope tells them too. The only silver linings are that I think most of them abstained rather than vote for Trump and that they all live in a hard Red state anyway so they probably won't have much impact. Still drives me crazy though.
rusticus@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I don’t know anybody that WILL ADMIT THEY vote republican because of their abortion stance that doesn’t also agree with the rest of the party’s policies.
FTFY
dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I don’t live in the US, but from a foreign perspective, it seems like pretty much everything is heavily divided depending on political alignment - and increasingly so. From my perspective, it seems like there are basically no politically neutral news outlets or types of social media, and even locations seem to lean heavily towards a specific political direction. So it seems obvious that people are spoon fed into a specific alignment. Consuming news of an opposing view or communicating with anyone with opposing views just seems unnatural in those environments. So to me, it seems like political views is commonly a huge package deal.
cerevant@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It is fairly common among Catholics. I’ve known some fairly progressive Catholics who are Republicans because abortion. Now, that isn’t to say that a good number haven’t bought into the divisive rhetoric and gone full maga, but that’s not where they started.
summerbistrorealness@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I know several. Very supportive of LGBTQ causes, conservationist, by all accounts would be considered “woke” by the ilk. But anti-abortion so they voted for Trump.
BromSwolligans@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If Lemmy had awards this succinct answer would get a pile of them.