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But isn't that a good thing, from the side of the pro-choice? It means no unwanted children are born to be neglected and abused, it means he is taking financial responsibility for paying for the abortion, and the women are free of unwanted burden of motherhood?
I can see criticising the guy for being a hypocrite if his party is anti- abortion, but I don't get the logic of people (and I don't just mean you, I see this all over) being at the same time loudly pro-choice and complaining about the threat to abortion rights, and then use "he paid for his girlfriend's abortion" as a criticism.
I see the main argument trotted out time and again that restrictions on abortion will mean forcing women to have babies they don't want, which means the unwanted children will be abused, so abortion is a good thing. Unless you can show these women didn't want to have abortions or would not have aborted the pregnancy even if it had been Joe Blow, ordinary guy and not Football Star who was the father, what is the problem here?
"He shouldn't be paying for abortions if he's running for a political party that is anti-abortion?" What are his own views on it - has he said 'abortion is wrong'? Then you can get him for hypocrisy, and for being a sinner.
But by the same token, you cannot be both pro-choice and a conservative, because that's how the battle lines have been drawn up. If you're conservative, you must be anti-abortion, and if you're pro-choice, why are you voting Republican?
No. It's a scummy look. The median view is that early stage abortion should be safe, legal and rare. Median voters aren't happy when an abortion happens; they view it as a necessary evil in cases where the mother isn't able to care for the baby, there are complications in pregnancy or fetal development, where it would derail the family's future, etc. It isn't meant to be a form of contraceptive that wealthy playboys can use to cover their tracks when they want to rawdog a bunch of women without a vasectomy; that pattern of behavior is somewhere between misogynistic and psychopathic, and no one respects the man who uses it that way.
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No. Although it is impossible to say this in Blue spaces because of wokestupid purity spirals, pro-choice normies want abortion to be safe, legal and rare. Herschel Walker's behaviour made it significantly less rare.
There are also a lot of people, not all of whom are religious conservatives, who think that having unprotected sex outside committed relationships is inherently discreditable, quite apart from whether or not an abortion happens as a result.
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https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/19/politics/herschel-walker-abortion-opposition/index.html
Come on dude, first Google result. This wasn't a hard one to research. I even typed in walker abortion position because I was too lazy to figure out how he spells Herschel.
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