It's not about rights, for mothers or the unborn, it's about money

[Still Sensible]

and has been for almost four decades!

Soon after the Roe v. Wade decision, the right wing politicians and churches very quickly learned that they could raise copious amounts of money by using the issue to fire people up. And they have been doing it, with ever greater success ever since.

In the decades since the 1972 decision, the right wing has been able to identify other hot button issues that feature a similar phenomena--most notably immigration and LGBT rights. And they have been hugely successful.

The marriage of the right wing bigots and the pro-big business/anti-labor republicans was made possible by the money-raising ability of demagogues. While this had been the MO of politicians and other charlatans for centuries, the abortion issue took it to a new level and gave the right a road map to raising ever more money.

While the people who are donating all that money have deeply held beliefs (prejudices, bigotry, misogyny, or whatever), the right wing politicians have no desire to "solve" these issues--they have stumbled onto the goose that laid the golden fund-raising egg!

Meanwhile, the moneyed right found the perfect rubes to join them and give them enough power (votes) to challenge the New Deal progress. After nearly five decades of impotence following FDR's election, the elevation of Reagan/Bush and the marriage between the religious right and the unscrupulous, anti-New Deal right, provided a viable power base.

And the money just keeps flowing.

[kestrel91316]

1. You must be male. Because no female in her right mind wouldn't get

how it IS about our rights, and they DO intend to take them away.

This isn't just about getting votes. But nice try.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Farmer_and_the_Viper

The Farmer and the Viper is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 176 in the Perry Index. It has the moral that kindness to the evil will be met by betrayal and is the source of the idiom 'to nourish a viper in one's bosom'.

[Still Sensible]

3. I don't know that I deserved that

The point of the post is what the issue is--and has become--to THEM(the RW politicians, preachers, Rushbo and his ilk, etc.). Of course, to US it is absolutely a question of rights and that is why we have always fought so hard and will continue to do so for the rights of all women, of all people. My point is that those people are just thrilled to have the issue--as well as the fight for LGBT rights--go on forever because it allows them to raise incredible contributions... and because of that, the GOP has been able to gain power when, for decades, they were unable to do so. I'm sorry if you saw something else in my post.

[Brickbat]

2. That's certainly a big part of it. It's such an effective fundraiser and mobilizers, I don't think

they'd ever fully make abortion illegal everywhere for any reason at all. It's too lucrative.