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Honestly, why are Americans so obsessed with abortion?

• techostritch 2y ago
  What does this mean? Which Americans and on what opinion?
  • beardyw 2y ago
    Most countries the topic hardly comes up. Politicians in America regularly fight over it. Why?
    • techostritch 2y ago
      I think it’s because for a modern liberal first world democracy we’re remarkably religious, most other countries are either more religious so it’s settled anti-abortion or more secular/liberal so it’s settled pro-choice.
• jfengel 2y ago
  Because it's an easy political win. Whichever side you're on, you can present it as the end of the world if you lose. Either you're killing millions of babies or you're putting women in shackles. In reality most people want some kind of compromise on it. But the extremes get the voters out. Certainly the anti-abortion voters turn out in droves. (Abortion rights voters are kind of wishy-washy about it.) Most actually kind of liked the compromise that Roe put in place. But it was an easy thing to attack, and to demonize their opponents about. So they did.