The recent vote in Ohio is just one of a string of cases where voters show they mostly support abortion access to some extent (1). Polls show the same. (2) So why do Republicans (specifically Republican politicians, not necessarily Republican voters) keep trying to do something unpopular?

My (perhaps cynical) view of Republican politicians is that they’re the “do anything to win” party. They would take any stance and pull any trick if it would give them a better chance of winning. So why are they so stuck on a losing issue?

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/08/ohio-takeaways-voters-abortion-00110411?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20230809&instance_id=99621&nl=the-morning®i_id=78332928&segment_id=141508&te=1&user_id=2c229a9eb418d267c58bd9e6c665e49d

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/23/us/roe-v-wade-abortion-views.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare T

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Scientists can tell with like 80% accuracy what the political identity of an American is… just from a brain scan.

    If the prefrontal cortex is larger and more active, that person is likely to be empathetic and use higher reasoning to control their emotion. Those people overwhelmingly vote Dem.

    If the amygdala is larger and more active, then that person is more likely to feel fear or anger and act based on those emotions without thinking.

    Then there’s the 20% where they’re just kind of average and it’s a coin toss.

    That is why a woman can view her individual experience decades ago with an abortion and use that to rationalize not letting any woman get one now.

    She’s not empathetic enough to understand other women may be in a worse spot than she’d have been if she kept.

    She isn’t using the critical thinking to understand decades of medical advancement means it’s a lot safer now.

    But she is still in fear of her bad outcome.

    And she’s still angry she had complications.

    If it doesn’t make sense to you, it’s because you’re brain isn’t working the same as the other side. The tragedy is only one side is usually able to understand it. The other side just keeps ranting about crazy shit because they’re constantly terrified or pissed off about a hypothetical.