Who's behind the war on women's rights?

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3. hooray, yes

Bargaining away rights is just as bad as denying them in the first place.

Something I've been saying for years.

Apart from the total futility of thinking one can reach compromise with people like the anti-choice brigade by giving in on something like "partial-birth abortion" -- give them an inch, and they've already been plotting for how that will help them take the mile -- that is the big question.

How can anyone bargain away someone else's rights?

Who appointed anyone to bargain women's reproductive rights with anyone else?

Fundamental human rights aren't bargainable. It's that "inherent, inalienable" thing.

The exercise of those rights may be limited, where justification is shown. But not bargained away.

Granted, in the case of your healthcare legislation, it wasn't the fundamental rights (life, liberty) themselves that were in issue. Equality rights were, though. How about if one side had demanded that sports-related hernias not be covered?