...If you don't care, why do you bother to respond?

If D.J. was "dully" elected, it's because his followers identify so strongly with the dullness of his intellect.

You and your brethren seem to take sustenance from each other's clichés. Just remember that there are 3 million MORE Americans, who are not members of the body politic who agree with you, who disagree with you. I can withstand your frivolous vitriol ad aeternam (...you could look it up) because the more vitriolic your response, the more confident I am that I have nettled your uncritical constitutional conservatism. Truth will always heal. Lies will fester forever. Shakespeare said that. You could look it up.

It's time to call a spade a spade. Enough of the "post-truth era," "alternative facts," and "falsehoods vs. lies." The only word for what we are experiencing at the hands of our new president is PROPAGANDA. The autocratic D.J. Trump believes that anything he says is true at any given moment even if he contradicts himself retrospectively or will contradict himself prospectively. He is the 21st-century incarnation of Adolf Hitler, and his own Nazi salute is the thumbs-up. True to form, he misleads us by using the wrong finger. I wish I could attribute the following to the person who deserves the credit for saying it -- I wish I had! -- "George Washington said 'I cannot tell a lie.' Richard Nixon said 'I cannot tell the truth.' Donald Trump says 'I can't tell the difference.'"

First off, I deleted this original comment because I realized it didn't have anything to do with the article. Secondly, I am pro-choice 100% and always have been, so you don't have to lecture me on all the far-right tactics...I get it. I'm not talking about facts vs emotion on the ISSUE of abortion or a woman's right to control her body, I'm talking about taxpayer money paying for abortions. That's all. Because the right knows we legally have the right to choose, so they get all worked up over having to pay for them...which they never have had to and never will have to. Nip it in the bud is all I'm saying.
The biggest problem with Liberals is that they just can't take constructive criticism, even if it would help their cause. The FACT is taxpayer money doesn't pay for abortions in the US. That's a FACT and give them PROOF (the Bill Obama signed). However, taxpayer money might in foreign countries if the Mexico City policy isn't in effect.

So if I need to show facts that prior to RvW women were having abortions and dying from them? That was the entire argument behind RvW. As for eliminating any government funding that still won't eliminate abortions. Women who don't want to have babies won't have them. As for emotions I have yet to use the picture of an aborted fetus as an argument against abortions. Talk to us about being emotional when the right stops using emotion as a principle argument. A woman having the right to do with her body as she chooses isn't an emotional argument but as about as factual and straight forward as you can get. Granting rights to a fetus that isn't even viable though and shedding tears because SCOUTS won't grant them the rights, is more then a bit emotional--you guys come close to hysteria. SCOTUS says the right to life doesn't exist for a fetus until it becomes viable--and even then is it doesn't pose a health risk for the mother. That's the Rule of Law and I see no reason to get emotional about it. Do you?

The Mexico City policy has gone back and forth after every election since the policy was made; Democrat presidents recind it and Republicans reinstate it - why should Trump do any different (although I wish he would). This is a subject I'd like to debate more because on the one hand it's "our money, our rules" and on the other it's coercing other countries to accept only one side our country's opinion, and only women suffer (not by having abortions denied to them but women in other countries need education about birth control and family options as much, if not more, than the women and youth in our country did and do). Tough call and is probably why it's still around and bounces back and forth.