I think Count Timothy von Icarus did a good job at outlining some of the major differences:
https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/802555 — universeness
The argument was about how significant they are and I see no one addressing that beyond just declaring them to be. — Isaac
At least 11 US states – including Alabama, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Texas – have passed legislation that bans abortion without any such exceptions. Where Republicans once believed that absolute bans were unpalatable and “toxic” with voters, the party’s legislators have now adopted the language once promoted by the most extreme anti-abortion activists in the country who say any such exceptions are “prejudice against children conceived in rape and incest”.
A pre-teen girl was denied abortion in the US state of Texas in a case that blatantly highlights the ill aftereffects of SCOTUS’ decision to scrap federal abortion rights. The 10-year-old, hailing from Ohio, was reported to be six weeks and three days pregnant, as reported by The Hill. According to Texas state law, females cannot get a fetus aborted after its cardiac activities begin, around six weeks.
Noam Chomsky maintains that the US is a one-party state. The Business Party rules, and maintains the illusion of a two party system through the continual jockeying between its two very similar wings. — BC
It’s clearly not a one party state otherwise it would be dictatorship but it’s evidently a constitutional democracy, and to claim that this democracy is illusory is to be dealing in conspiracy, simple as. — invicta
The argument was about how significant they are — Isaac
You don't see a significant difference between Democrats wanting to codify abortion rights in law and Republicans passing laws against abortion that don't even allow for exceptions for rape or incest, or when it's a pregnant 10 year old? — Michael
Only intolerable of far-fetched ideas such as the one proposed in the OP, or more outlandish ones such as the Earth is flat, world is run by lizards, there’s microchips in vaccine and other such delusional craziness. — invicta
The latter are some actual laws and the former are, as yet, empty promises. — Isaac
So far in 2022, at least nine Democrat-controlled legislatures have passed legislation affirming that abortion is a legal right, protecting those who seek abortions and perform them, and expanding access to the procedure, sometimes using considerable public funding.
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16 states and Washington, DC, have laws that protect abortion rights, as of May 1.
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Other measures to protect abortion rights have passed at least one chamber in several states, but actually enacting them may be difficult. In Washington state, for instance, abortion rights are protected under the law, and lawmakers have considered an amendment that would enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution. But Democrats don’t have a supermajority in either chamber of the state legislature, and state law requires a two-thirds majority to put an amendment on the ballot.
Democrats are doing what they can to protect abortion rights, but where they don't have enough votes the Republican's anti-abortion policies are preventing protections for abortion. — Michael
Wealth disparity isn't the only measure of the differences between political parties. — Michael
the stats you highlight are globally true — universeness
we also have indicators of the hard work done by all humanists/socialists etc worldwide — universeness
the analogy doesn’t fully describe US two party politics — invicta
Yes, for all practical purposes, the two parties form some kind of symbiosis of a status quo that (in its other symbiotic relationship: corporations, banks, etc) bizarrely needs increasingly large amounts of everything: money, resources, land, people, energy, blood... Of course the two parties are different. — 0 thru 9
Abortion policy is a complete irrelevance when it comes to the major issues civilisation faces. — Isaac
But that was all YOU offered, statistics!No we don't. We have a statistic. — Isaac
Absolutely nowhere do we even have a correlation with any causative factors, let alone proof of the significance or fit of that correlation. It might, for all we know, be a result of the earth warming, or just the gradual growth of the economy. — Isaac
You just seem to be arguing that because the differences between Republicans and Democrats don't affect you then they're not significant. I disagree. — Michael
But that was all YOU offered, statistics! — universeness
Would you not agree that since the days of the ancients, the level of global poverty has significantly reduced for a large portion of the global population — universeness
and that this has been hard fought for? — universeness
It's an objective assessment of the number of people affected. — Isaac
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