As a pro-choice independent voter I got hassled the other day for not supporting Kneepads Harris.

“Abortion rights are important but they are not the only rights being restricted. I am pro-choice on all issues not just one. An election selection is about priorities & accepting that whomever is elected in current year that they will seek to violate someone’s individual rights in some way. Otherwise neither is the only choice,” I identified the obvious.

“Trump is going to institute a nationwide ban on abortion,” she thoughtlessly repeated an echo of the partisan media.

“Republicans are projected at 51 Senate seats. Unless they had more than 60, such a bill will never pass Congress. So even if Trump was lying about not supporting a national ban, he can’t get such a bill passed,” I instructed about basic legislative process.

“But without Roe, states are making all abortions illegal,” she claimed.

“Increasingly restrictive abortion laws in some states are in line with European norms. Further they can be easily evaded by traveling to another state or getting a prescription via delivery. So I might not like it, but other individual rights violations are much more restrictive,” I judged.

“But what about your daughter’s rights to an abortion,” she asserted as an anti-trump card.
I bit my tongue at the low attack before replying, “Abortion is still available to them. Our state hasn’t changed the law. With Dems control in the state house that isn’t changing soon. Plus, worst case scenario, abortions will remain available just over the river.”

“Fine,” she exhaled in disgust while refusing to accept anything less than my submission to the hive mind, “but you have to think about the other women who can’t get an abortion.”

“Best case those women don’t care when my rights are violated but more likely they advocate for it. But I won’t hold a grudge…they can move to another state to get better laws. Huge numbers have been leaving California & New York to flee other rights violations by Dems. Yet there aren’t a huge number of women in states with bad abortion laws moving to other states. Some rights violations must be more intrusive on people’s lives than others,” I observed.

Choking up she asserted, “I have been working for women’s issues all my life.”

“Women have other rights to consider besides abortion. But let’s put it in your terms and focus on ‘women’s issues,’ I began.

First I addressed the rise of female slavery in the US, “Whistleblowers, including testifying before Congress, have claimed that the Biden Admin has been working with Mexican cartels to traffic women & children as slaves within the US.”

Next I informed about female compulsory service to the government, “Meanwhile, Dems in the Senate have advanced legislation to make women register for the draft, so not her-body-her-choice on compulsory military service in combat.”

Pivoting I highlighted single women’s complaints about their futures, “On the economic front, Dems restrictions on individual rights have constrained commerce to the point that single women complain they can’t find a financially acceptable man for marriage.”

In light of falling marriage rates, I added context, “Forecasts are that more than 1 in 3 women will fail to achieve her personal goal of having a husband and children.”

I summed up, “Single women, who have overwhelmingly supported Dems, may have to prioritize. In the next four years, what is more important to her, promises of less restrictions on abortions or increasing her chances of marriage? About 5% of women don’t want marriage, let them have their choice; however, most do but too many fail to realize her choice in part as a consequence of her votes.”