(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . A lot of this is happening because Democrats have not been leading on the abortion issue. [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-03-19 Although Republicans have been making gains elbowing their way and forcing their beliefs on other Americans, a lot of this has been slipping through in many places because Democrats have actually have not been leading. They’ve actually been failing to really lead on this complex & so crucial an issue! How have they been failing? Because if Republicans are able to hold on to power even when a majority of Americans don’t agree with them, what about the remaining who can make a difference, who do? How does one work to win over those others based on where their viewpoints may be so securely esconched? Why is it, you never hear a Democrat show the courage to state that they also feel Abortion is wrong? Not that it should not be available for a woman’s personal care, but that they personally don’t like seeing it happen, that as a casual decision in a person’s life that they also believe in protecting the unborn by doing the hard work of helping others make better decisions in their lives? If nothing else, just to get people’s attention, they should. The truth is, Dems need to take away this fake “moral high ground” the right enjoys. And they can! To win this battle for the sake of history and for good, they must! I mean, we all know Democrats as a whole don’t believe in it, as a searched –for decision in life, but it seems nobody wants to come out and just say it, or anything about it. Still, I can see many Americans on the fence are waiting to follow someone who really feels more the way they do. They’re morally confused. Their consciences are searching… They know abortion is wrong, and the Right muddys up the water so they can’t think it through, but in spite of that, they want more clarity, and they are not getting it. Why?. Because there’s hardly anyone prepared to honestly talk and confront this difficult situation in life in a proper, blameless manner. A smart and brave Democrat should be prepared however, to want to correct this, much more than any Republican who only wants to force others to believe as they do. That’s easy… Too easy. Forcing people, out of fear and subjugation, placing themselves in a position of high-handed dominating power. They don’t want to do the hard work. The real hard work. And it is. Hard work! OK, so what am I talking about, when I say the hard work? Well, just one way I’m talking about this is from a parent’s point of view. What loving parent would not be devastated to learn that their daughter, or even son, was involved in such a drastic moment of such painful consequence? I raised my daughters with this firm moral understanding driven by a loving heart, and I did the hard work of talking with them, not once, but many, many times. Making them understand that one thing in life they absolutely do not want is to be in a situation where they would have an unwanted pregnancy. As they grew more, and when they fully understood, they agreed. Even more, they agreed when they went out on their own to make their way in this world. They did the hard work of wanting to live right. We all know it is not easy. Life is not easy. Living to make good decisions is not easy. it’s hard work! And they’ve lived with better decisions that have made a great difference in their lives, God bless ‘em. But it took being made aware of the awaiting problem. It took hard correspondence and communication. If you don’t do the hard work of avoiding a problem, that problem will find you. Even doing that hard work, sometimes it still does! Life can just hard like that sometimes. But awareness, and knowing the danger and pain is there, is so important. It is key. I know many are not lucky enough to have loving parents, and such upbringing. But that vacuum described here is a beginning, of what I’m saying should be addressed. The need to do the hard work of corresponding, of communities and people to find the ways to come together for the sake of people’s health and better decisions. If it takes a lot of love, then OK, we should find that love somehow, for the sake of having freedoms we hold dear. That’s just one area of the work, the real hard work of reaching others I’m talking about. Now, for a woman who has been the victim of rape, or incest, that is so painful to even think about, so personal and private, I cannot even begin to touch on that. This is self explanatory for the need for a woman to have the freedom to care for her body, on her own, with the full respect they deserve. People need to realize all this. They need to be shown, sometimes. And now, having said all this, let me make clear my firm conviction that it is NOT the government’s place to tell anyone what they can or cannot do with their bodies. Period. Right? But perhaps it IS the Government’s place however, to encourage dialogue, to support communities whether they are church organizations, neighborhoods, hospital and research centers, all the different ways to create that dialogue, right? Not so much in a religious aspect. But whoever wants to do the job of bringing the discussion, shouldn’t they be supported? Let’s just agree the need is there. Not in any government aspect, but in a people aspect, because once it reaches that phase it belongs to the community, doesn’t that sound better? Talking with a deliberate purpose, that young people can learn to care for themselves with the purpose of learning more the importance of avoiding unwanted pregnancies, right? Look how far the Right to Lifers have come with so many years of their unstoppable dialogue. It has been extremely effective! Don’t you agree that now it’s time for the real hard work to take place to help people to learn to make better decisions in life, and lower the occurrence of unwanted pregnancies by lifting the knowledge and education of our people to save the unborn? Why Not? It’s the right, honest way to really end abortions. If we can do that, there’s no justifiable reason for them to be taking these freedoms away. Someone needs to step and show they believe we can do it like that, and people will follow! And another way to implement hard work that I can only scratch the surface in mentioning, or talking about.. - How about State of the art adoption centers, where funds are brought about by caring people and organizations everywhere that again, talking about it, bringing the problem to be seen in a caring manner, so much can be done? Looking from the viewpoint of some scared-to death young girl who accidently went too far, or Lord knows all the different things that can happen, and is now looking around for some kind of support in a horribly cruel and uncaring world? Nobody ever talks about it from that viewpoint!! That. Is a huge, moral challenge! Republicans always talk about how they care so much for the unborn! Once they are born however, they couldn’t care less! Then they don’t seem to want to devote any concern, whatsoever! They can be such hypocrites. To hell with the Right’s fear-driven socialist branding propaganda talk. There has to be a better way! Do you see what I’m talking about, now? Please- let’s finish taking away that fake “moral high ground” the Right has been sticking in our faces for so long, and forcing people to believe like they do! Forcing people never works! We all know well that people will find a way to do what they want to do when they want to do it, in many cases causing very dangerous situations and great harm to take place. This is a big reason why Roe V Wade happened all those years ago, right? NOT because anyone wanted to outright kill babies, but because of the recognition of this fact that so many people were suffering, and it needed to be addressed properly! So it’s there for a Democrat to lead. To insist we finish the job and make people understand we need to be vigilant and open the lines of communication for better decisions for all in life, and protect the freedoms we hold dear with great love and urgent responsibility. Young women and entire families in our country are angry and are up in arms about losing these freedoms that have been so important to them, and these fear mongering power hungry rightwingers that want to FORCE everyone to believe like they do! They need to be silenced once and for all with the strongest get out- the- vote our country has ever seen! Leading folks to be doing this hard work will be another way to win over many people that voted Republican before. People want to feel correct. They want to feel good about themselves. We need the votes. We cannot lose to the power mongers any more! 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