The issue of choice has festered as the current stalemate persists. The rhetoric has gone stale too. But there are new ways for progressives to approach the issue. A change of strategy by those who would ban abortion has been recent attempts to have state legislatures define life as beginning at the moment of conception. If they are successful, proponents hope to redefine abortion as murder. This effort opens up new opportunities for progressives to put a spotlight on absurdities of some "right-to-life" positions.
G.O.P.
Government Overseen Pregnancy
Please take a look below the fold to see some other examples:
It’s not a CHOICE, it’s an INNOCENT LIVING HUMAN EGG.
Truly Pro-Life?
Ban abstinence!
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Communist-run China:
Where women are kept from bearing children.
GOP-run America:
Where women would be forced to bear children.
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The right-to-life movement loves everyone
Until they start to breathe.
Not all the slogans above represent the Democratic Party position. But if NARAL or NOW or others put fresh effective slogans out in the world, they could help shift the debate in the direction of Choice. At this moment, the fate of the Democratic Party and the fate of reproductive freedom are intertwined.
Like the slogans above? Or not? Can you improve on them? Most importantly, what are your others?! Please comment.
For the next month or so, the group Political Language and Messaging, will be collection point for concise messaging ideas like these. Please participate! Provide ideas. The ideas that will be the most useful will be the ones you have boiled down to their essence --- sound bites and bumper stickers are good models. Something so concise and memorable it might stick with a harried parent on her/his way to work. We are trying to assemble ideas that can be used in the rest of this year's campaign. Additionally the Frameshop group will provide an opportunity to rate messaging ideas in the manner of a focus group. We want to encourage everyone to contribute. Please join these two groups. Or if you prefer, post comments to the diaries that others post to these groups, and include your ideas in your comments. YOU are needed!
Together we can create an easily accessed collection of fresh original memorable ideas for the Democratic Party and for independent progressive groups that support Democratic candidates. If we build it they (consultants with ad budgets) may come!