Do You Know Or Care About Your Candidate's Stance On Abortion?

[ThomWV]

It just occurred to me that I do not know (although I could probably guess correctly) what the position on abortion either of my Senators hold or the person I will vote for to represent me in the House.

The reason I do not know their positions is because I don't think its important enough to demand inquiry. I presume because all three are Democrats that its likely that two of the three will be for choice and one of them won't - fine with me. It could just as easily be that two of them are anti-abortion and one of them is pro-choice, that would be just fine with me too. Maybe they all agree, one way or the other, and that too would be just fine with me.

Abortion will never be a deal maker or breaker for me when it comes to support of a Democratic candidate, I actually see it as a non-issue that exists in the public discussion only because its a tool for would be political Machiavellians to fire up zealots on either sides of the isle.

Is it really an important issue to you? I suspect that fewer people really consider this a major issue than the public discussion would seem to indicate.

[davidinalameda]

1. yes and I do care

[izzie]

2. Yes and both my Sen. They are all for letting me live my life.

Even the two GOP Sen.

[davidinalameda]

15. you have a couple good senators

better than a few Democrats currently in the Senate

[izzie]

16. They seem to be two old type GOP. Snowe is Ok

My daughter who is in medical field said they both do a lot for the state in that line. My daughter votes Dem. also. I think Snowe gets in by about 60 percent of the vote and Maine is usually about tops on voting. I think that Snowe took her husband to DC to work on K Street sort of turned some off.

[pooja]

3. I care because it may effect me. I am a woman.

I am married and if I become pregnant (the plan), then I would def. be happy. But if for some reason I had an etopic pregnancy or some other life threatening condition, I would have to consider terminating. It is important that women have the option to make medical decisions about their body.

[napi21]

4. I agree with you BECAUSEif the Dems have the majority, Roe

will never be overturned, and if some Demsare pro-life in their own personal convictions, it doesn't matter. No matter what their personal opinion is, NO DEM will ever move to overturn settled law on this issue.

[kimmerspixelated]

5. Yes,as a woman

and a mother of a daughter, I definitely care, however, I think most of us are so desperate to get Dems in we'll vote for the neighbor's dog if in fact he is a Dem!

[Lars39]

6. I consider forced pregnancy to be important.

And that's exactly what happens when choice is taken away...whether it's from a Republican or a New Democrat.

[Red Right and BLUE]

7. "Is it really an important issue to you?"

Yeah, it really is.

[Caoimhe]

8. Extremely important to me

If you cannot accept a woman's decision concerning her own womb, then you must not think much of women in general.

[ThomCat]

9. Yes, I absolutely care.

And I make it an issue to care. There is no way we can allow anti-choice people to get influence in the party.

[bowens43]

10. The only thing important to me this election cycle

is that they have (D) next to their name on the ballot.

[kestrel91316]

11. It's my litmus test. If they're not unapologetically pro-choice,

nothing else matters. It's a basic qualifier for me to be interested in a candidate.

Sort of like potential BF's being non-smokers.............

[Suich]

12. It's the #1 issue with me! n/t

[MH1]

13. I know, I care, but it is only one part of the calculation n/t

[gully]

14. This is a major issue, but if I lived in a southern state and had two

anti-choice candidates running - I'd take the Democrat of course. Think Kucinich for example.

[arcos]

17. I do care, but I fully understand your position..

Living in a 75%+ catholic country, most, if not all of the leading politicians are anti-choice. It is a VERY important issue to me, and if there happened to be a pro-choice candidate I would fully support him/her. But right now, there's not much of an option to me... even those who are hesitant on the issue (and even some who are pro-choice) would never support a law that would legalize abortion.

It really is an important issue to me, but as a Costa Rican I can't use abortion as a litmus test. And I fully understand red state democrats in the US who don't use it either.

[sandnsea]

18. Yes I know and care

It's one of the first things I look at when I visit a candidate's web site, second usually being health care. It's shocking to me that anybody wouldn't care about abortion rights. It's fundamental to a woman's ability to direct her own life.