Pro-Choice Means Anti-Abortion

Jim Newell on Conor Lamb in Slate, via Digby:

He holds the Tim Kaine position on abortion: He doesn’t personally support abortion but believes it should be legally available—a position known as being “pro-choice.”

And that's exactly the problem. If you don't "personally support" abortion, then you don't "personally support" a woman's bodily autonomy.  You don't "personally support" a woman's human rights.  You don't "personally support" the reproductive freedom that is the sole foundation of women's civil rights.

Not "personally supporting" abortion on demand is buying into the misogynistic position that abortion is something bad that people should not "personally support."

Not "personally supporting" abortion on demand is buying into the freakazoid position that imaginary invisible sky wizards give men the right to control what women do with their own bodies.

Not "personally supporting" abortion on demand is buying into the patriarchal, MRA position that women are mere appendages to men, just wombs at their service, not really human.

I am proudly Pro Abortion.  Any candidate who does not full-throatedly support free, no-restrictions, on-demand abortion clinics on every fucking corner in the land is anti-woman, no Democrat and undeserving of my vote.

Fuck you, Conor Lamb.  I hope a real Democratic candidate, preferably a woman, beats your ass in the primary this year.

Safe Legal and Rare, my ass.  Safe, Legal, Frequent and Nobody's Fucking Business.