ALL CAPS = yelling. Please don’t yell.

Dog catchers have to agree with the current thing now?

Are there even still elected dog catchers? I think most places just sub out animal control.

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My apologies.

I hate voting on just one issue. I don't like it when they do it, I don't want to do it. But yes I think abortion should be safe, legal, and create the conditions for it to be rare.

Women’s health and bodily autonomy aren’t “the current thing”. Stop trying to trivialize foundational freedoms by painting them as a trend, you disingenuous turd.

There are times when you really do need to turn up the volume, tho.

They also posted this in every state subreddit lmao

OP just posted the exact same post in every state subreddit. I've never seen a race for dog catcher in PA.

Ugh. Someone running for county commissioner included that he is pro-life and pro 2a in his press release. What the hell does that have to do with the job of county commissioner??? Absolutely NOTHING!

I HATE when politicians use these talking points.

There are trivial offices people might compare to “dogcatcher.”

Township Auditors and Tax Collectors often have the duty of simply signing a piece of paper, so that a professional firm may do the auditing or tax collecting.

The OP is correct that it is worthwhile to oppose folks running for those offices (the first job is to recruit a better candidate, or to step forward yourself). These offices can be stepping stones to “policy offices.”

Also consider school board races. Alice or Bob might be active in the PTA, but if they're going to ban books about reproductive health…

No. Animal control is usually under professional services. The borough appoints someone to handle that. In the smaller towns there’s usually one person or company that covers a large area.

Can someone please make a post about the special election tomorrow in PA 27 senate district? It covers Northumberland, Snyder, Columbia, and a few other counties. Sorry I just don’t like making my own posts for some reason.

>I think abortion should be safe, legal, and create the conditions for it to be rare.

I am pro life and I know many pro life people would be ok with this as long as the rare part was there.

Dropping abortions to around . 001% of what they are now would be great. (Presuming you mean it is allowed for rape, incest or mothers life at risk).

Because we vote for people who are ideologically similar to us instead of voting for people who want to enact policies that will better our lives.

Lol. Ok.

"A seeker of wisdom and truth" Now that's a low bar.

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No, they mean providing easy access to healthcare and preventative measures so women don't need to get an abortion, not make it illegal and pretend you've solved the problem.

Does France have abortion rights?

Pregnancy is inherently a life threatening condition. That is not an exaggeration. Many women - myself included - would choose suicide over pregnancy. I’m fortunate enough to have gotten approved for sterilization, but many women’t don’t have insurance or won’t get approved. Treating birth control and abortion access like healthcare is the way forward

The thing is that people who are pro-life are also usually in a political spectrum that reduces rights for others based on religious principles. They don’t want gay people to marry or adopt. They’d rather hold on to legislation that was written centuries ago regarding guns than do anything to protect everyone from this mass shooting madness we’re in. They seek to censure an erase lives that are unlike their principles. So most of the time is not a single issue you’re voting against it’s a cornucopia of bigotry.

States with the most extreme abortion restrictions have terrible mortality rates for childbirth of the child and mother especially. Look to Texas for birth mortality rate higher than most countries as the huge discrepancy between white and black mothers for this as well. So it's not just anti-woman but it ends up being racist as well.

16 weeks, most of Europe is 12-16 weeks. Americas abortion laws are pretty relaxed compared to most of the world.

If you don’t vote, you don’t matter

Rare is a difficult goal to achieve. 1. We have a rampant rape problem. Agree or not it does exist and women are punished for reporting rape. 2. Birth control does fail. It can be extremely reliable but it is not 100%. The best you can do is make the morning after pill easily accessible and affordable but unfortunately not every will know their form of birth control has failed for 6-8 weeks at the earliest. Not everyone has reliable menstrual cycles. It seems like it should be an easy to avoid pregnancy but the only way to do that is abstinence. Abstinence is just not a realistic solution because even married people can have an unwanted pregnancy. At the end of the day this is a private decision that has many factors including health, finances, support structures and no one especially a government should be forcing women to give birth. If our society truly wanted to be pro life we should start with the society children live in today. Gun violence kills 22 children every day in the USA. We have weak support structures for women when it comes to health care accessibility and child care. Finally we have an education system that is under attack. I think you need to understand people of child bearing age are looking at their future and it really is not a good time to have children.

It's really telling that you think people's right to healthcare and bodily autonomy is "the current thing." And it's unfortunate that it's not even true.

Personally, I appreciated the yelling- to make sure that the people in the back got the message.

I also don’t see anything wrong with posting it in every state’s subreddit. Due to gerrymandering and voter suppression efforts, too many state legislatures are Red and don’t truly represent the will of the people who will be forced to live under the laws they create. The crazies are working hard right now to stomp on every single one of our rights. Oh no, wait- except the right to own and carry around weapons which are capable of killing dozens of our fellow citizens in less than a minute.

Here in PA, they are busy bickering over whether to put some questions on the ballot about changing our Constitution- including raising the voting age to 21. I’m guessing that they have done research that shows it’s those pesky young people voting Blue, so they’re trying to take away their right to vote any way they can. What’s more, they want the questions to be on the ballot in the May Primary, an election that’s has notoriously low turnout- except for old folks- especially in a year where we don’t vote for President.

Please, people- VOTE. In. Every. Single. Election.

I'm glad they tell us these things. It informs us that their decisions are based on politics and religion, not on the important facets of the job.

Access to safe and sound healthcare lowers the rate of abortions. Deny that care, and abortions go up (along with complications therein). Supplementally, good sex education helps decrease teen pregnancies.

The same moral panics bear the same regressive results, and people needlessly suffer as a result. We need to embrace science, not Bibles.

This entier post sounds like a practice speech, a horrible one at that.

Mkay got it. So no pro life dog catchers.

Foundational freedoms? I don't see them in the bill of rights or the Magna Carta.

Wow those things written by white men didn’t protect the rights of women so I guess they shouldn’t have rights then. Fuck outta here.

You're getting there, good job! No anti-choice anything, thanks

Lol. "Fuck outta here". you stole the words right outta muh mouth.

Enjoy perpetual disappointment at the world's unwillingness to follow your desires.

Thanks for the hypocritical (I'm really shocked, I promise) advice, oh wise one! I'll do my best! :)

ah, yes, super lax, especially when in some states you have to carry a dead fetus to term and risk dying because of it!

So if the USA adopts the same rules as France, that would be acceptable?

nope, never said that. nice try, redditor.

> nope, never said that. nice try, redditor.

And what was obvious to everyone is again on full display.

You are not looking for a reasonable solution but a radical solution that only a tiny minority wants.

nah, I just read your profile/comments you leave and decided you weren't worth engaging. have a mediocre day! :)

Because people often use the job of commissioner to build a resume to prepare for a run for congress.