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Originally Posted by rubecube
PeteMoss gave the game away in his post. To get a super majority, the Dems have to run pro-life candidates. So even electing those candidates doesn't guarantee abortion protection, hence why "just vote harder" makes zero sense mathematically on this particular issue.
And that's if you believe the Dems truly want to protect abortion. I would wager that certain segments of the party don't want these issues settled because cultural wedge issues are the only things that fundamentally differentiate them from Republicans.
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Keeping Republicans out of office is about the only practical play at keeping whatever abortion protections are left.
If Hillary had won, Abortion would have been protected for at least a generation just by the effect that election had on the Supreme Court.