Abortion Keeps Young Republicans In GOP Orbit

[RandySF]

Like millennials, who are now in their mid-20s to 30s, members of Generation Z — born after 1996 — tend to lean left. But there are still plenty of young Republicans, and the generational divide that is so apparent between younger and older Democrats is no less present on the other side of the aisle. It’s just less visible.

In interviews with two dozen Republicans ages 18 to 23, almost all of them, while expressing fundamentally conservative views, identified at least one major issue on which they disagreed with the party line. But more often than not, they said one issue kept them committed to the party: abortion.

While polling shows an age gap in opinions on abortion, it is smaller than the gaps on some other issues, and researchers say that for people who oppose abortion, that opposition has become more central to their political choices.

Even as young Republicans often accept the science of climate change and support L.G.B.T. rights, abortion remains a powerful force pulling them toward the Republican Party — and toward President Trump, whom many of them dislike.



https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/us/politics/young-republicans-trump.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage

[tanyev]

1. Because life begins at conception, but ends at economic inconvenience.

[crickets]

2. +1

[tinrobot]

3. Pro-life... until they have to wear a face mask.

Because their makeup might smudge... or something.

[Mariana]

7. I don't think most of the people squawking about wearing a mask

are between ages 18 and 23. Most of them seem to be much older.

[11 Bravo]

10. Or in Trump's case, his bronzer.

[Greybnk48]

4. They're drawn to Republicanism because of an authoritarian personality disorder,

which includes a strong desire to control women and reproduction. "Control" is the operative word with these types. That's how the Republicans have kept this issue alive for decades. Some men don't like the idea that women can control their own reproduction.

Having grown up in the 60's, I remember a virulent reaction over the pill, and roadblock being put in place so that women could not get it without their husband's consent. It hasn't changed with this minority and never will.

[DBoon]

5. Control and subservience

For women and for minorities

"Do as you are told and STFU"

[Cosmocat]

8. Yeah - abortion is a defacto issue

I can get the anti-abortion sentiment to an extent, but its pull is so incredibly outsized relative to the countless ways the GOP fucks people over on a personal level.

There is more to it than what people admit or see in themselves.

[gratuitous]

6. Their steadfast belief that they may one day impregnate a woman is almost too cute

But why don't we do a better job of taking care of the 7 billion people already on the planet before we throw open the reproductive floodgates, hmmm? Usually after I bring up this point to these dimwits the conversation peters out (you should pardon the expression).

[11 Bravo]

9. Then that's where they belong.

The forced birthers have their niche, and it's called the GOP.

[ProfessorGAC]

11. Two Words For Young Republicans

Fuck you! All of them!

[Buckeyeblue]

12. Anti-abortion but also anti-policies that drive down abortion

ACA provides free birth control. Paid parental leave for mother and father. Higher minimum wage.

The women who I know who had abortions had them because they were young and didn't have access to birth control or felt like they couldn't afford it or were a little older and didn't think they could afford a child (or another child).

Republicans don't support pro-family policies.

Republicans are also anti-woman in general. So there is that.

[maxsolomon]

13. I have 2 cousins who've indoctrinated their kids into the Anti-Abortion movement.

The 2 boys, now college freshman, were shipped to DC every year of Catholic High School to the March For Life (the same one with that kid from Kentucky who's suing CNN).

All abortion is murder. Dems are baby-killers. End of discussion (until they need an abortion themselves).