If You Don't Stand Up For Us ...
... we won't stand up for you.
Any politician who is unwilling to stand up for a woman's right to have autonomy over her own body is going to pay a price - and it's going to be a very high price indeed.
Women will not vote for you, they will not donate to your campaigns, they will not support anything that furthers your political ambitions.
Women will not be silent about your treachery against them. They will raise their voices at every opportunity, and their voices will drown out your own every time you attempt to portray yourself as anything other than what you are - a spineless misogynist who lives in abject fear of the female sex.
And make no mistake - we women are not alone. The majority of the populace supports a woman's right to choose - and that majority is comprised not only of women, but our husbands, our fathers, our brothers, our male neighbours and friends, our fellow citizens who believe that forcing any woman to give birth against her will is beyond abhorrent.
You are never going to live down the fact that you chose to stand against women rather than stand up for them.
You are never going to escape the fact that you chose to stand with the party whose SCOTUS picks took rights away from millions of American women.
You are never going to win back the votes of those millions of women - or the votes of the men who support them.
I, for one, welcome the battle - because there's nothing more satisfying than knowing that "the other side" of the war is already known to be the losing side.