Pro-Choice: Maybe It's Time To Re-Educate The Voters? [View all]
I am wondering if it's time for pro-choice and reproductive rights activists to re-educate the voters as to what's at stake this election. I say this because I heard a very interesting audio clip on the radio, where a complacent pro-choice voter voted for Mitt Romney because she thought he was still pro-choice, like he supposedly was back when he was Governor of Massachusetts. She was startled to learn that he is now anti-abortion, and she only learned it AFTER she exited the poling booth.
I think there are a lot of careless uninformed voters who have similar thought patterns. They either assume that their pet Republican politician either favors access to abortion or supports reproductive rights. I think that reproductive rights groups ought to provide little reminders about Republican politicians' "devolution" from formerly supportive or neutral to actively hostile when it comes to access to birth control as well as abortion.
Reminding voters "That was then, this is now" is not something progressive activists have been good at over the years.
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