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I'm not a biologist.

Abortion has been a political issue since the flawed* Roe decision was made. It comes up every 2 years and will continue to come up.

It's a weapon, and yes, it affected the House and Senate in 2022.

Congress could codify it and has refused.

It's been a political issue, but as medina points out it was an issue that single-issue abortion voters might decide their vote on, but literally everyone else largely voted based more on their other political beliefs because as long as Roe was in force, your vote didn't really affect the availability of abortion. And while the right was thumping their chests about how they'd get Roe overturned, I think a lot of the electorate didn't buy it--which is why it was such a huge shocking case to so many when it actually happened. 

However, I still don't understand how the left weaponized it. Even if you consider every political issue a weapon, it seems to be bipartisan. Republican state-level lawmakers are pushing for heavy abortion restrictions in their legislatures, and then Democrats get it put on ballots for the voters to decide. Both sides are battling it out hard. I don't see how either side can be singled out for "weaponizing" the issue? 

Abortion has been a rock around Republican electoral necks ever since Dobbs.  I'll take a crack at it:

The other side of this coin is that so long as Roe existed, Republicans didn't lose too many votes for their Pro-Life position because so long as Roe was in place, people could reason that it didn't matter.  Once that went away it hurt Republicans three ways:

I've actually made the argument [elsewhere] that abortion was a virtue signaling issue for a lot of Republican women. They could be the most vociferous pro-life advocates publicly, but with the knowledge that if they [or their daughters] ever needed an abortion, it was available, due to Roe. 

Once Roe was overturned, they realized that availability of abortion was actually in jeopardy. And what we see at the ballot box is that even in Republican states like Kansas, keeping availability legal won resoundingly (60/40) at the ballot box. It did this DESPITE polling to lose 43/47, in a state which Trump carried 56/42. How to explain that??

My guess is that there were a bunch of Republican women arguing publicly that they were going to vote pro-life, that were telling their husbands and fathers and everyone else that they were going to vote pro-life, and then in the secrecy of the ballot box said "nope". Because they realized that when it REALLY came down to it, if they [or their daughters/granddaughters] needed an abortion, they wanted it to remain available. 

Abortion can be codified. But they won't do it because it will leave one less issue out of election season.

The left has weaponized abortion. It is what it is.

I mean, does government usually move to codify things under Supreme Court ruling? It also seems like it’s a little backwards.

They didn’t push it not because it’s less of an issue to run on but because it might have galvanized the other side.

I don’t totally know what it means to be “weaponized.” Does that mean used to get people elected? If so, that’s been helping republicans build coalitions for decades.

Wherever you're getting your talking points from (RT, InfoWars, the Epoch Times, or the RNC day sheet), you need to stop listening to them.

what are you blathering on about? RNC day sheet? What the? first of all I've never heard of Epoch Times, the only thing I know about InfoWars is the hilarious memes I see of Alex Jones on the internet- and they are truly hilarious- the gay frog song meme- holy shit is that funny- and the only thing I really know about RT is that some of our supposedly "open, free, and democratic" allies in the EU have banned it. Nothing screams democracy like state imposed censorship of media. YAY Freedom! 

I actually laid out you know, things that happened in the real world. facts as the kids would say. the only one sticking to stupid ass talking points is you. why? probably because you clearly have nothing to say and you don't know what in the actual f*ck you are talking about. 

Mdot gets his "facts" from SPECIAL SOURCES not available to regular commoners.

The rest of us just slavishly feed on whatever CNN tells us, I reckon.

CNN is still alive, right?  I think they are hosting a "debate" of sorts down the street from me.

Mdot gets his "facts" from SPECIAL SOURCES not available to regular commoners.

The rest of us just slavishly feed on whatever CNN tells us, I reckon.

CNN is still alive, right?  I think they are hosting a "debate" of sorts down the street from me.

yeah, no. it's called the public record, genius. 

that gopher buddy was claiming a bunch of wild sh*t about Trump in regards to Russia that is just demonstrably false.

Trump expelled more Russian nationals from US soil than Obama. Fact. Trump imposed many more and much tougher sanctions on Russian nationals and Russian corporations than Obama. Fact. Trump shipped lethal arms to Ukraine, something Obama openly refused to do because he did not want to escalate the situation. Fact. 

These and many other similar facts kind of, you know, blow up his ridiculous nonsensical talking points that Trump was some kind of Manchurian candidate. 

I think the last time I watched CNN was probably 1991.