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First Netroots Nation video up

• Blogging • Progressivism • Reproductive Justice

Marc and I wandered around Netroots Nation asking people to offer their views on reproductive rights.  Much to my delight, my expectation that your average attendee at Netroots Nation has an intelligent, learned opinion on these things proved correct.  Thanks to everyone who agreed to be interviewed.


RH Reality Check: Netroots Nation 2008 on Reproductive Health from RH Reality Check on Vimeo.

 

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Posted by Amanda Marcotte on 01:39 PM • (6) Comments

Informed, coherent, consistent responses. Opportunity for misinterpretation at 2:16. smile

Comment #1: NoJoy  on  07/22  at  07:03 PM

Incidentally, just an observation. Everybody in the lefty blog is in such a good mood after the conference.  I guess meeting people in real life sort of change the dynamic of online rage. heh…

But seriously, everybody’s post are so nice right now. (almost annoys me)  But it’s all nice, I suppose.

Comment #2: Yuri  on  07/22  at  09:34 PM

Democrats need to get off their collective asses and pass legislation that clearly makes abortion illegal. We can not expect the Supreme Court to keep abortion illegal.

Comment #3: Michael Hussey  on  07/22  at  09:48 PM

Um. Did Michael Hussey wander into the wrong blog? Or was that sarcasm that I’m missing?

Comment #4: Auguste  on  07/22  at  10:27 PM

Um. Did Michael Hussey wander into the wrong blog? Or was that sarcasm that I’m missing?

I meant legal. I have been linked to Pangagon posts in the past. Besides being tired and poorly wording my argument (including on my blog. Ouch.), the Democratic Party needs to push legislation that makes abortion legal. Republicans know that 59 to 60 of Americans support abortion. The GOP will lose if they try to completely ban abortion. I wrote about how South Dakota voters rejected the abortion ban in 2006.

South Dakota has been the hardest place, in the country, to get an abortion. Only one abortion clinic, a Planned Parenthood, operates in the state. Yet, when faced with the possibility of a total ban; voters reject the it by 55 percent. That’s a big number in a Red State that has been strongly anti-abortion. Republicans tried pushing Social Security privatization and Terri Schiavo. Both issues blew up in the Republican’s faces. Abortion works to fire up the Christian Right base. However, an all out assault on abortion rights is political suicide for Republicans. The left will will the abortion debate. In the mean time women are put at medical risk for political opportunism. It’s sickening and wrong.

Voters reject conservatism when they see the consequences.

Does that make things clear, Auguste.

Comment #5: Michael Hussey  on  07/22  at  11:05 PM

Agreed.  Congress needs to pass a law guaranteeing the right to abortion.  They need to also pass a law guaranteeing the right to use contraception, a view that’s non-controversial in the public but controversial in Congress.  It’ll help smoke out people who think condoms are evil and hurt them in their home districts.

Comment #6: Amanda Marcotte  on  07/22  at  11:32 PM
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