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Roe v. Wade to be overturned?

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by outofplace, May 3, 2022.

  1. Twirling Time

    Twirling Time Well-Known Member

    The commerce clause in the U.S. Constitution expressly gives the federal government authority over crossing state lines for whatever, including abortion.

    The first woman arrested for doing so will win hands down and will have no shortage of pro bono counsel. Otherwise, the U.S. Constitution is unconstitutional.
     
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  2. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    Tell that to Dred Scott
     
  3. Mngwa

    Mngwa Well-Known Member

    Until this SCOTUS rules on it, no?
     
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  4. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    If this “life begins at conception” stuff becomes the law in many states, does that mean pregnant women can drive in the HOV lane or claim their unborn child on their taxes?
     
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  5. DanielSimpsonDay

    DanielSimpsonDay Well-Known Member

    Report shows what abortion procedures were most common in Alabama

    The portion of the report covering the demographics of women undergoing abortions showed that most were unwed, 20-30 years old and had at least one living child prior to the abortion. It also showed abortions were disproportionately performed on Black women.
     
  6. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    Anti-aborts will say they’ll happily allow that if it means banning abortion.

    My favorite one is to ask if a pregnant inmate can be released from incarceration because her fetus is being unlawfully detained without due process.
     
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  7. matt_garth

    matt_garth Well-Known Member

  8. Mngwa

    Mngwa Well-Known Member

    And clearly, child support should start at conception.
     
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  9. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    Clothing and schooling would be cheap.
     
  10. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    Will they be counted in the Census every 10 years to determine the number of seats each state gets in Congress?
     
  11. micropolitan guy

    micropolitan guy Well-Known Member

    Then you are legal to drink and buy cigs in the US at 20 years, three months.
     
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  12. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    I'm asking this seriously — is there any legitimate, credible proposal for this that has been introduced in any state legislature?
    I haven't kept up with every political happening in a dozen states where these trigger laws are going into effect. Without going down a rabbit hole of nonsense, it's increasingly difficult these days to filter out what are actual proposals in state legislatures, what is wishful thinking by the looniest of right-wing toons, and what are hysterical left-wing hypotheticals that someone made a random absurd comment about and Twitter ran with it (see the thing about the pregnancy-sniffing dogs in Mississippi).

    As you said, it's so blatantly unconstitutional and stupid to consider that kind of law, from a dozen different angles, that I can't see how it would warrant any kind of serious discussion. Yet it keeps popping up as if it's going to an imminent vote in a number of states.
     
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