"Wendy Davis Redefines ‘Pro-Life,’ Enrages Anti-Choicers"

[appleannie1]

“I am pro-life,” she told a University of Texas at Brownsville crowd on Tuesday. “I care about the life of every child: every child that goes to bed hungry, every child that goes to bed without a proper education, every child that goes to bed without being able to be a part of the Texas dream, every woman and man who worry about their children’s future and their ability to provide for that future. I care about life and I have a record of fighting for people above all else.”
“This isn’t about protecting abortion,” Davis explained in the same appearance. “It’s about protecting women. It’s about trusting women to make good decisions for themselves and empowering them with the tools to do that.”

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/11/06/1253654/--Wendy-Davis-Redefines-Pro-Life-Enrages-Anti-Choicers?detail=facebook

[LonePirate]

1. Gotta love her for taking the fight to the right wing bastards by using their words against them

[Skittles]

2. it needs to be said

they are NOT pro-life - they are anti-choice

[Heather MC]

20. +1

[dbackjon]

81. Forced Birth

[Tx4obama]

3. Bravo! We dems should have been calling them ANTI-CHOICE from day one.

The terms: pro-life, 'real Americans', patriot, etc need to be taken away from the Republicans

[aquart]

6. Bloody about time.

Let me know when the rest of you are willing to call yourselves liberals again.

[Major Nikon]

24. I've always thought FORCED-BIRTHERS is a better descriptor

[Tx4obama]

33. 'BIRTHERS' nowadays are folks that think Obama was not born in Hawaii. So, I don't see that working

[Major Nikon]

41. Only the crème de la dumb still believe that

Even Bachmann admitted that particular dipshittery was over.

[Tx4obama]

44. Yes. But my point was that the word 'birther' is still connected to the birther nuts.

[Tigress DEM]

47. NO, them are the STUPID BIRTHERS.

[niyad]

75. I call them woman-hating, pro-forced-birth, anti-choicers.

[sheshe2]

4. Thank you Wendy Davis!

You are an amazing woman, you speak well for the people of Texas, for all of us.

She will turn Texas a beautiful shade of blue. She has the strength, determination and passion to take Texas out of the dark ages and into the light.

Kudos appleannie for your post~

[movonne]

10. I hope the activists get out by the thousands for

this wonderful women...door to door, block by block...and she will WIN!!!

[sheshe2]

14. The ground swell has started....

it will happen movonne.

[Left Coast2020]

57. I certainly hope so.

All of you in Texas have a year to knock on as many fucking doors as possible. In English and Spanish. City by city. Make this a movement. And you will make history.

If you are in your ground game now, you will win!

[athena]

5. Yes! We are pro-life! They are anti-woman!

We make a mistake when we allow the anti-choice movement to label itself as "pro-life." Their policies would lead to women dying in back-alley abortions, problematic pregnancies, and suicide. Doesn't a woman's life count as a life?

[Auntie Bush]

65. NO!!!! Not according to Pro-lifers.

Women are sh*t...nothing but stupid brood mares...unable to think or make intelligent decisions. Babies are unimportant and don't deserve welfare after they are born. How is that being pro-life?

[RoccoRyg]

7. Pro-Force

I prefer to call them pro-force. They want to force women to carry children they don't want and to risk pregnancy every time they have sex. Still working on getting the phrase into the mainstream, but give me time.

[Tx4obama]

8. To me the label 'Pro-force' is not as clear as 'Anti-choice'

Republicans are Anti-choice on several issues: abortion, same-gender marriage, the freedom FROM religion, etc.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. Nope. Call it Pro-Government. It is Pro-Probe, pro-interference, pro-intrusion.

Keep government out of your (or our or women's) vagina(s).

Don't insert the government between you and your doctor.

The Pro-Government position want Government-mandated trans-vaginal probes. It wants the government to review health decisions.

It's also racist. Part of the agenda is to increase the birthrate in the white population to counteract immigration and the higher rate of contraception among white women.

[Auntie Bush]

66. "Don't insert the government between you and your doctor. " That should say

Don't insert the government between my legs. Or...
Keep the Government out of my vagina.
Kick the politicians out of my bedroom.

By the way...pregnancy is a medical condition and aren't medical conditions considered private by law? (HIPAA)
So why can Politicians delve into my medical conditions and decisions? Isn't that against the law? Someone should take that to the SC.
A baby is part of it's mother until it's born, is breathing and has a name and address. Only then is it a legal person with rights of it's own. And the mother still has the say when making medical or personal decisions regarding HER baby.

[jaded_old_cynic]

25. Pro birth.

nt

[BlancheSplanchnik]

9. + one zillionskillionbajillion.

And the fetus fetishers forced birth league is pissed. Go figure.

[sulphurdunn]

11. The drooling zombie knuckle walkers

may try to harm her now that their controllers are targeting her. She needs tight security.

[Gothmog]

23. There have been death threats made against Wendy Davis already

There have been a number of death threats made already against Senator Davis http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/14279/

The comments on Greg Abbott's Facebook posts are getting very, very ugly.

Abbott's male supporters are routinely making death threats against Wendy Davis.

... a man demands that someone shoot Davis. There are far too many examples of this kind of rhetoric up and down Abbott's official campaign Facebook page. This escalates the disgraceful rhetoric his campaign has already promoted -- Abbott personally thanked someone who called Davis "retard barbie" and the campaign's top strategist publicized an article calling Davis "too stupid to be governor".

Worst of all, the Abbott campaign appears not to moderate its comments at all to weed out such hateful, violent remarks

.

[sulphurdunn]

30. It's become a standard

far right media tactic to incite violence against perceived enemies and then piously deny culpability when one its armed zombies acts upon it.

[Tigress DEM]

48. Has anyone mentioned this to the FBI?

Inciting to riot is still against the law.


Someone DEMANDING that someone shoot a public official? Over the top. Should be looked at seriously.

Maybe find a nice weapons cache that can be cleared out because probably illegally stockpiled.

Wouldn't be the first for that group.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. Kudos to Wendy for using positive language to call out Conservative hypocrisy

Wendy Davis is showing y'all (us all) how it's done. It's framing the issues with language that is positive for our side and negative for the elephants.

[Delphinus]

27. Excellent photo!

That shows it clear as a bell.

[niyad]

76. would you post this as its own op so that we can rec it--and for wider visibility?

[Sienna86]

15. Perfect.

I've personally enlarged my definition of pro-life to include the same...now perhaps we should include the death penalty and drones?

[kydo]

16. She is Pro Life Like I am

I care about the living and their quality of life. I like this Wendy Davis from Texas. She is totally cool in my book.

[BillyRibs]

18. WORD!

[DFW]

52. There are a lot of us Texans that like her, too! n/t

[Old and In the Way]

17. Oddly, none of the feminists from my favorite forum have endorsed this thread.

Not enough patriachy, I guess.

[demwing]

28. OK, since you seem intent

Go ahead and pull it...

[JTFrog]

68. What the fuck?

Your hidden posts in this thread are beyond disturbing.

[NuclearDem]

69. Posting while intoxicating can either be funny or sad.

And I'm not laughing.

[Cryptoad]

19. Lovin me some Wendy !!!! nt

[WillyT]

21. HUGE K & R !!! - Thank You !!!

[Gothmog]

22. Good job

This is a good move on Wendy's part.

She is driving the GOP batty in Texas

[Left Coast2020]

58. Can someone keep us posted on her events and other

goings on? You are aware that the white-wing is going to try to throw the kitchen sink at her. We need to have a heads up to any potential attacks so the campaign can fight back.

If Wendy pulls ahead in polls, expect someone to start throwing the kitchen sink. Thats when the repukes panic and resort to desperte crap.

[seabeyond]

26. ah, what a woman. i say the same here in texas, when i am told someone is pro life.

me too. no wars. no death penalty. take care of the hungry children

they shut up real quick

[freshwest]

40. I used to shut them up with loving those 'anchor babies' they hate so much. They shut up because

if they make an exception for 'them there illegals,' it proves their 'religion' they claim is a sham.

[Moostache]

29. Perfect...stop the government take over of the Uterus!!! (n/t)

[Nanjing to Seoul]

31. This woman impresses me. Ann Richards's second coming. Still think she will lose, but election

day is a long time away and I want to be wrong.

[KansDem]

32. Ah! I love the smell of enraged anti-choicers in the morning!

Not really, but wotthehell!

[TxDemChem]

34. Thank you for posting this!

I got into a slightly intense discussion with another DUer (whom I have now blocked) regarding me referring to myself as pro-life.

The anti-choicers should not be considered pro-life; pro-birth is more accurate!

[Gman]

35. I've been using that for a few years now in debates with righties

paying mortgages, health care, good educations. They're all life issues.

[lupinella]

36. K&R n/t

[rhett o rick]

37. To be clear, Wendy is a liberal and not a conservative-Democrat. That's why

we like her. She isnt afraid to speak truth to conservative power. Our party needs more like her and less conservatives.

When a Repuke wants to switch parties, JUST SAY NO!

[winter is coming]

46. Hell, if you're going to be a Democrat in a red state, you might as well go whole hog

and be a liberal.

[efhmc]

49. Just to be cleaar there is not such thing as a conservative Democrat in Texas

any more. Those people are called republicans.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

38. Republicans stop caring when the baby passes through the vagina

Republicans love fetuses. The child is on its own once through the vagina!

[yellowwoodII]

39. Wow!

I like her! She tells the truth.

[alp227]

45. You've got to search this quote. The enragement by the right wing online ghetto is HILARIOUS.

And of course any Wendy Davis thread brings out the worst misogyny and idiocy in Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood.

[Phlem]

50. Pro Life people are lost.

They can't understand the irony in their charge. I try not to beat up on them but sometimes, maybe more often then before, they bring their ignorance to a level that needs counteracting. Especially when it starts affecting life.

We will fight for your life even if it includes killing other life, what ever it takes, but after your born we don't care whether you starve to death, live in poverty, can't get health care, Oh the irony continues endlessly....

There are some stupid people and that's ok but when they organize and it start's to affect other peoples lives, you know like when they die frequently, then it needs to be reigned in and re-assessed.



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[JanT]

51. i love her definition of pro-life

direct and to the point. The REPUGlicans are pro-birth, and not pro-life. Thanks for the post. and the best to Wendy!!!

[SoapBox]

53. Kicked & Recommended

[ZombieHorde]

54. I like this framing, and I hope those on the fence like it too. nt

[Jamaal510]

55. Democrats are pro-life. Republicans are pro-BIRTH. nt

[ismnotwasm]

56. Incredible woman

[ReRe]

59. K&R

[arthritisR_US]

60. This makes me cry because she speaks to my

heart and to the only truth to the matter. Dem's, for gawd sake put your funding behind this las!

[merrily]

61. Republicans who are pro-war and pro-death penalty are anti-women's choice, not pro-life.

Never, ever let them re-frame in their dishonest way.

[randr]

62. It has always been a battle of semantics

The choice of words determines the argument. Democrats have been behind Republicans in this regard and Wendy has taken a step that should have been taken from the get go. "Pro-Life" is all inclusive and Pro-Choice people can make a stronger claim to the phrase. By taking the phrase away from the right we automatically brand them "Anti-Choicers".

[apnu]

63. Awesome! This is the right way to take back the issue. (Nt)

[Vogon_Glory]

64. I've Called Anti-Abortion Fanatics Bare-Life

I've called anti-abortion fanatics "bare-life."

I mean, look at their agenda. With the exception of a hand-full of people with consciences, most anti-abortion activists vote for politicians who oppose medical care and nutrition for pregnant mothers, natal care after they're born and chilhod immunizations, Support savage cuts for SNAP programs and school lunches, and making the workplace better for parents.

[mountain grammy]

67. Pro woman, pro family, pro child... all PRO LIFE!!

[Larkspur]

70. Excellenat reframing/co-opting of the pro-life label

She needs to keep it up and Democrats nationally need to co-opt it, just like the Rethugs did with liberal/progressive terms.

[Renew Deal]

71. It's the old "love the fetus, hate the child" argument Randi Rhodes used to make.

And I agree with her take on it. Republicans are hardly "pro-life." They are anti-choice

[hamsterjill]

72. Go, Wendy, Go!!!

Cannot wait to go into the voting booth and vote for this woman!!!!

[Sunlei]

73. we are all pro life

[Xyzse]

74. Must say thank you.

Good for her. I do not care for these Anti-Choicers calling themselves Pro-Life as many of their restrictions causes more harm than good.

[niyad]

77. k and r + gazillion

[rwsanders]

78. GREAT! Steal the label, now's a good time, it will really throw the right into confusion...

it is the simplicity of that phrase that makes it so easy for those who don't scratch the surface to keep voting republican. I think it is long past time for the left to take it. If the right tries to fight for it, they will be exposed as the warmongering phonies that they are.

[gopiscrap]

79. excellent

[polichick]

80. My 3 favorite Texans: Ann Richards, Molly Ivins, Wendy Davis.

[johnnyrocket]

82. Calling them PRO-OPPRESSION works, too.

[niyad]

83. . . .