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Answer Overview

Response rates from 851k Virginia voters.

62%
Pro-choice
38%
Pro-life
50%
Pro-choice
30%
Pro-life
5%
Pro-choice, and providing birth control, sex education, and more social services will help reduce the number of abortions
8%
Pro-life, but allow in cases of rape, incest, or danger to the mother or child
4%
Pro-choice, I don’t agree but the government has no right to ban it
0%
Pro-life, and I also oppose abortion for victims of rape and incest
3%
Pro-choice, but ban after the first three months

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Other Popular Answers

Unique answers from Virginia voters whose views went beyond the provided options.

 @4RZFDJGfrom Washington  answered…4yrs4Y

If the Father of the unborn child is willing and capable of caring for the child and wants to assume legal custody of child and is a fit parent, I feel he should have an equal say in the decision. There should be rights for Fathers who are able and willing.
I think this may encourage people to be more thoughtful about intimacy. I believe Men should have a say in the decision of the termination of their unborn child.
I also believe in required counseling before and after abortion as it often leads to eventual traumatic disorders and depression.

 @5928RG7from California  answered…4yrs4Y

End all programs, no abortive procedures period. Lock up all doctors, nurses, staff of any facility that participated in any abortive acts. I want stiff penalties for medical staff and go after any women who have had an abortion and grandfathering it. For each abortion 15 years to life it is premeditated murder not only for the woman also the man that impregnated her!!!

 @8LY3TR9 from Ohio  answered…4yrs4Y

I am pro life but if you are raped, then you can have a abortion but if your were stupid and had sex at a young age then don't abort it.

 @5MBK6ZXfrom Texas  answered…4yrs4Y

I'm personally against it but strongly believe that it's just like the presidential election, if you don't vote you can't say anything. If you disagree with abortion what are you going to do to help those kids who didn't get aborted and are now in foster homes? If you're going to be against it, do something to help. Adopt that baby of the mother you judged for wanting an abortion.

 @4RZ875Qfrom Alabama  answered…4yrs4Y

 @528MY4Mfrom Texas  answered…4yrs4Y

I do not agree with a helpless human life being ended purely because of any unfortunate circumstance which may have created that life. But I DO NOT agree that my beliefs should be FORCED upon another. Let each make their choices until science can factually determine when life begins.

 @58TJZW2from Pennsylvania  answered…4yrs4Y

I agree it is a MAN and WOMAN's combined decision. It the man wants the baby she should carry to full term and the man raise the baby.

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Fetal Independence

The conversation involves a heated debate on whether a fetus is a separate individual from its mother, touching on moral implications and comparisons to dependent adults.

France Makes Abortion A Constitutional Right

 @Patriot-#17769MO

Demonstrably false. From the point of conception, the new life is a baby. He/she is a separate individual than his/her mother. Science.

@fart_smeller689MO

you are pretty embarrassing, jesus christ. i never said we don't live off of other people, but living off of other people and a fetus living off a person's body are not the same things. consumerism and birth are not comparable, jeez louise! you're a little coocoo, y'know, patriot? but I still love you, sweetie pie. you'll be mine forever.

 @Patriot-#17769MO

Don't worry, feeling embarrassed is totally normal after someone schools you and mops the floor with your argument's bloody carcass. Yes, unborn children living off their mothers and us living off other people are very comparable, and you've provided no evidence they aren't. This entire argument was an emotional unload totally devoid of all logic.

 
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@Patriot-#1776
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Abortion Rights

The conversation revolves around the impact of Ohio enshrining abortion rights in its constitution, the role of state rights post-Dobbs decision, and the political implications for the GOP and Democrats.

Abortion rights win big in 2023 off-year elections

@PumaSummer1Y

Ohio just enshrined the right to an abortion into the state constitution. Young people & women were fired up, turned out, and made Republicans find out. Turns out that abortion is a kitchen-table issue & Democrats can run on it & win. Another big win for Democrats.

@UnforgettableDem0cr4t1Y

Aren’t the “they” up for election every 2-4 years?

Seems like the open vote is continuously occurring.

@PumaSummer1Y

Truly you aren’t that naive. The fact that Dems can still mop the floor with them despite the voter restrictions and gerrymandering should scare them.

 
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@UnforgettableDem0cr4t
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Abortion Rights

The conversation revolves around the contentious debate on abortion rights, focusing on the role of Republicans, the Supreme Court's decision on Roe v. Wade, and state vs. federal powers.

Republicans struggle to talk about abortion

@L0bby1stCharlotte12MO

Republicans didn’t “end roe v. Wade”. The Supreme Court returned power to the States that was stolen by the fed government. It’s purely a tenth amendment decision and had nothing to do with abortion.

@JudicialHazel12MO

Yes, I'm sure we don't have to worry about the guy who tried to overturn the election results and vowed to be a dictator being authoritarian

@L0bby1stCharlotte12MO

“Vowed to be a dictator being authoritarian”

This is not a phrase used by someone who is smart.

Neither of the things you have stated are true, either. Horrible news all around for you.

 
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@JudicialHazel
is winning the debate

News, 2024 Presidential and Joe Biden

Democratic Party Ramps Up "Dirty Tricks" Against RFK Jr. Campaign

@VultureJeff8MO

He got more than the vax right. He got the left right. He calls them out for going full communist in his book.

@DrearyElection8MO

Ehhhh I would’ve agreed, I even bought his book, then I looked into him from the past right up to the book, dude’s full lefty.

Then ‘Biden is a decent man’ and having a vaxx mandate at his house…

@VultureJeff8MO

There are three minerals in the race. I’m voting for the one with a brain.

 
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@VultureJeff
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Bodily Autonomy and Pregnancy

The conversation revolves around the ethical considerations of bodily autonomy in the context of pregnancy, exploring scenarios of implied consent and responsibility for outcomes of one's actions.

Pro-life

What is your stance on abortion? Abortion is a medical procedure resulting in the termination of a human pregnancy and death of a fetus. Abortion was banned in …

 @VulcanMan61Y

No person, even a fetus, has the right to use another person's body without their consent; if you no longer want the fetus to use your body, then you have every right to stop it from doing so, even if that means it dies. That's just what it means to have bodily autonomy: you have the right to decide who can or cannot use your body, at any time, for any or no reason.

@ZealousSquirrel1Y

I'd like to propose a different angle. Let's consider the concept of 'implied consent', which is commonly applied in legal and medical contexts. If you decide to go swimming in the ocean, you're implying consent to the known risks, such as encountering dangerous sea life or strong currents. If a shark attacks you, you can't really hold the shark accountable for infringing on your autonomy. It was a risk you undertook while entering its environment. Similarly, when engaging in an activity that might lead to pregnancy, could one argue an 'implied consent' to the potential of creating a life is given? I'm not suggesting this viewpoint negates the right to bodily autonomy, but might it add a layer of complexity to the discussion?

 @VulcanMan61Y

While I understand the idea you're pointing out, I'm unsure how it is relevant to the actual issue. Yes, everyone is well aware that sex likely leads to pregnancy (or at least everyone should understand this, assuming adequate sex education), but that still doesn't change whether or not you should still have the right to bodily autonomy to withdraw that consent. Even if you willingly chose to get pregnant and successfully conceived a child, you would still be completely within your right to withdraw consent at any time and terminate the pregnancy, because the consent to pregnancy does not negate your right to withdraw consent during.

 
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News, 2024 Presidential and Abortion

@V0t1ngCicada4MO

If that were the case, shouldn’t the legislature have put it to an immediate vote by the populace after Roe was overturned? Instead they enacted one of the most draconian abortion laws in the US and have fought to keep this amendment off the ballot.

@L3gislatorLollies4MO

Which would be fair to say, if the Supreme Court had not ruled gerrymandering completely legal for partisan political gain. That makes voting “in people that will allow it” much more difficult.

@V0t1ngCicada4MO

And gerrymandering isn't a single party issue. Both take advantage and draw maps to put their party at an advantage. It's up to the courts if there's an issue.

 
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Abortion, Nytimes.com and Nebraska

Nebraska Teen Who Used Pills to End Pregnancy Gets 90 Days in Jail

This is so backward. This is what happens when you restrict abortion rights.

@MereLobby1Y

Right to Life has been working had, especially in the red states, to put up barriers to quick, safe, early-term abortions.

@W3lfareCat1Y

Good.

Also, still not relevant to this story. At all.

@MereLobby1Y

So you don’t want access to safe, early abortions, but you’re also upset about situations like this which can happen with those impediments.

That’s cognitive dissonance. Unless you’re advocating the force on women of the religious belief that a zygote is the same as a baby.

 
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News, Democrats and Abortion

Newsom picks Laphonza Butler as Feinstein replacement

@PanickyNomination1Y

She lived in California from at least 2010 until she took the position at Emily’s List in 2021 and relocated for that job. I’ll bet it’s ok under California law for her to move back to California for this interim position. It’s not like she has no ties to the state.

@CheerfulF1libuster1Y

Article 5 section 3 says they are meant to be a resident of the state they are representing at the time of appointment

@PanickyNomination1Y

They are already claiming that only applies to elections. Someone should sue.

 
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Defining Economic Liberty

The following is a conversation between 2 users about differing interpretations of 'economic liberty' and its association with left vs right ideologies, highlighting the complexity of political labels.

Which political ideology do you most identify with?

Secularism. Secularism is a political ideology that advocates for the separation of religious institutions from the state. This ideology emphasizes the need for…

 @VulcanMan611MO

How are you defining "left" vs "right"..? And is your argument solely using an economic scale? If someone was an economic centrist, but was socially and politically far-right, would you still consider them "moderate but not right-wing"? What exactly are you basing your "right-wing" vs "left-wing" positioning on?

Additionally, what do you consider "economic liberty"? Because I would argue that right-wing economics are NOT in favor of economic liberty, since capitalism (a fundamentally right-wing economic system) has an inherent and…  Read more

 @Patriot-#177611MO

but you did say: "Right-wing people support economic liberty but are in general more willing to see the government spy on its civilians via unconstitutional surveillance, and some rightists subscribe to an interventionist foreign police. Left-wing people support economic tyranny with a massive regulatory bureaucracy but are in general less willing to see the government spy on its civilians, and originally many supported a policy of peace and non-intervention, though sadly this has wavered away in recent years, especially under the current warmongering occupant of the White House..."…  Read more

 @VulcanMan611MO

I have explained to you what I meant by "economic liberty" so there's no fallacy there, as I have defined my terms and you have defined yours. The true debate should be over why we believe economic liberty is what it is.

Yes that is quite literally the entire point I have been trying to make: our own interpretations of "economic liberty" are entirely subjective, and even largely antithetical to each other's, hence why it is not a useful term to claim categorizes left and right-wing ideological thought. We could both have logically sound reasons as to why we believ…  Read more

 
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@Patriot-#1776
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News, 2024 Presidential and Donald Trump

Harris says woman’s death part of ‘consequences’ of Trump abortion actions

@B1llOfRightsMuesli3MO

WHY are you Lying?

There was no abortion ban. She already had the abortion. She had an COMMON abortion complication. You are blaming the hospital who had to deal with yet another abortion clinic complication dump-off. How about blame the abortion clinic?

@GerrymanderHannah3MO

Don't be stupid. She had taken abortion pills at home and it went wrong so she went to the hospital. The hospital waited 20 hours because they should make sure she's close to death before they are allowed to help. If they had done it right away, she would've been fine.

@B1llOfRightsMuesli3MO

The abortion had already taken place the hospital was well within the law to act this is very clear malpractice I hope her family sues the hospital and doctors involved the state law is clear she should have been given treatment these doctors need to be punished!

 
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@B1llOfRightsMuesli
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Abortion Debate Intensifies

The following is a conversation between 2 users about their polarized views on abortion, emphasizing bodily autonomy vs. the moral implications of terminating pregnancies.

What is your stance on abortion? Abortion is a medical procedure resulting in the termination of a human pregnancy and death of a fetus. Abortion was banned in …

Pro-life, but allow in cases of rape, incest, or danger to the mother or child

 @TruthHurts1011Y

It amazes me how you liberals are so passionate about the defending the lives of murders, rapists, thieves, and drug kingpins from the death penalty while you uphold the murder of the unborn not only as acceptable but as a positive good – even a right. I can’t help but wonder why when the lives of the very worst renegades of society are worth defending, what exempts innocent, faultless children from the same mercy and compassion. When helpless, defenseless, and voiceless babies are butchered by evil “doctors” in the womb, sometimes being torn limb from limb, you’…  Read more

 @VulcanMan61Y

lol I'm definitely not crying about those "babies" either, because they're aborted and never existed.

More importantly, you are so anti-liberty it is wild. You are an open theocratic authoritarian, who wants to enforce his own religious beliefs and laws onto all of society via violent state force. You want to forcefully enslave women into pregnancy against their will, and you repeatedly admit that you believe private interests deserve the right to take the profits of working men's labor. You have absolutely no concept of what freedom or liberty even is, because you are fundamentally just the Christian version of an ISIS fanatic: dangerously and religiously oppressive and socially authoritarian. It is sad to witness someone so unChrist-like and deranged as you...

 @TruthHurts1011Y

See you on the field of battle!

 
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@TruthHurts101
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