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  And if you talk to them, it's unhappy 17 to 35 year old men, incels generally, who think women who are having sex, but not with them, are wh*res.  It's about punishment for them.
context: "Some of you may die, but we are ok with making that sacrifice, in Jesus' name...Amen." - Republicans >
  
  Holy smokes that is baaad.
  For context, that death ratio is the same as China’s. It’s worse than Russia, Mexico, Romania, Tajikistan and ten deaths per thousand worse than Cuba or Iran. It’s double Puerto Rico and Saudi Arabia.
  sauce >
  
  So when are we going to just admit that Republicans hate women and want them to die. Republicans enact policies that make women die because they want women to die. Any person who votes republican is a sad excuse for a human and wants other humans to die. >
  
  Everyone's aware at this point - but Republicans don't have shame, so pointing this out won't make any difference. >
  
  The GOP is okay with that. Just like they want more babies but not comprehensive healthcare coverage.
  They want more people because people are data or marketing pionts to them. >
  
  
  They want more people because people are data or marketing pionts to them.
  
  Honestly, I don't think that's their motivation.
  The upper-echelons of power in the GOP don't give two fucks about abortion.  If anything, deep down they know they want access to abortions if they need them.
  The people who hold the purse-strings in the GOP use the abortion issue to force under-educated people to accept other policies that they otherwise would have no reason to support... like tax cuts for the rich and unfettered capitalism and corporate cronyism.
  They've gone about making working class white people feel like part of some exclusive club because of their shared views on this one key moral issue.  
  It's an ideological illusion to make any average working stiff who supports the GOP feel like they're in the same boat with billionaires, millionaires, war heroes, etc. >
  
  This should be at the top. It’s never been about abortion for those in control, it’s a tool just like racism and every other shitty thing they put on Fox News. You nailed it. >
  
  Yup, without their tools of abortion and bigotry, the Republican Party would have already been wiped out electorally by now. >
  
  Who said anything about misinterpretation? Not I. These people are ghouls. >
  
  That's a bot >
  
  Cruelty is the point. >
  
  The first in a long line of negative reports on this issue. Many of the short-sighted pro-lifers won’t realize, if at all, how bad of a mistake this was for another 15-25 years. Which is a shame because a lot of folks know they done fucked up on day one. >
  
  In the meantime, there will be an influx of women dying and single fathers, being left to pick up the pieces of their families. >
  
  Somewhat related but not really but your comment reminded me of how I was told about my great-grandpa's first wife died shortly after delivering a stillbirth. Apparently he went on the rebound right after that, knocking my great-grandma (who was actually his second wife) up and then ultimately marrying her and they had five children (including my maternal grandmother) together. >
  
  You’re right: 50 years ago Republican politics and Evangelical activism were different. >
  
  NPR was playing sound clips from the "pro-life" gathering in DC where people were saying "This is only the beginning!" They want a ban on abortion pills. Then probably just incarceration for talking about abortion, I suppose. Jail time for interrupting a man. >
  
  Yes. The pro-life states are already the ones with higher maternity deaths. Abortion has nothing to do with it. >
  
  No hate like Christian love >
  
  That's the "pro-life" party for you. >
  
  All because of a misinterpreted thousands of year-old book of folklore and fables. >
  
  For many pro-lifers, it is about religion, but far from all.
  Given how many atheists/agnostics there are estimated to be in the country, and how many are pro-life, there could be as many as 5.5M non-religious pro-lifers.  That's a population around the size of Minnesota or South Carolina.