Inside The Ground Game To Reverse Roe v. Wade: 'Doing It For The Babies'

[appalachiablue]

- ‘I’m Doing It for the Babies’: Inside the Ground Game to Reverse Roe v. Wade - NYT, July 20, 2018.

AVON, Ind. — Armed with sunscreen, doorknob fliers and a mission 50 years in the making, the team of activists sporting blue “I Vote Pro-Life” T-shirts fanned out into a web of cul-de-sacs in a subdivision just west of Indianapolis, undeterred by towering rain clouds and 90-degree heat.

It was exactly a week after President Trump had named Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to be his nominee for the Supreme Court, and the group was joking that they had a new sport: Extreme Canvassing.
In short surveys, the teams ask voters about their hopes for Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation and their opposition to abortion funding. Canvassers have knocked at nearly 1.2 million homes nationwide in recent months, and by November, they are slated to reach their goal of 2 million.

“Whenever I’m feeling tired, I say, ‘I’m doing it for the babies,’” said Kaiti Shannon, 19, as she consulted a mobile app to determine which porch with wind chimes to approach.

These are the ground troops of the social conservative movement, who have long dreamed of a nation where abortion is illegal. Ahead of the midterm elections, the Susan B. Anthony List, an anti-abortion political group, has dispatched hundreds of these canvassers across six battleground states. They aim to galvanize Americans who oppose abortion but who rarely vote outside presidential races, and to pressure red state Democrats, like Senator Joe Donnelly of Indiana, to support Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation.

Leaders of the anti-abortion movement believe they are closer than they have been in 50 years to achieving their goals, and local efforts like these are at the heart of their plan to get there. They see this political moment — a White House that advances anti-abortion priorities, a Supreme Court poised to tilt in a conservative direction, and a possible third Supreme Court seat to fill while Mr. Trump is still in office — as a rare opportunity, and one they have worked for years to create.

Some say they feel excited; others are cautiously optimistic. They are all definitely determined.

“Abortion is the single most significant rights human rights abuse of our time,” said Jeanne Mancini, president of the March for Life, which has brought tens of thousands of protesters to Washington every year since the Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973. “I have a lot of hope for incremental laws — for example, a late-term abortion ban.”...

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[Girard442]

1. I wish these people could show the same level of concern for actual born babies.

If only we could reach into their brains and reprogram them to see all human beings as fetuses.

[appalachiablue]

2. Agree. Avocates have to be well versed in countering the reality

of many children that will struggle and have difficulty growing up and functioning well in society. Why the AA reps. won't face and admit this is beyond me. Carrying out the pregnancy and suggesting adoption with a good, Christian family is likely a common solution if the mother can't or won't raise the child. Yet it's widely known that many placements can be unhealthy, even dysfunctional and harmful. OTOH some adoptions work out well. It's a very important subject that I haven't followed closely enough.

Canvassers and others are highly committed and organized to try to repeal Roe as emphasized in the article. And the SC selection is obviously key to that mission. Active opposition to women's reproductive rights is serious.

[AlexSFCA]

3. Even in Russia, abortion is legal

they tried banning it post WWII and it resulted in reduced fertility (due to botched abortions) when there was a need for more births and healthy women after human losses in the war. They are not banning anything but destroying women health.