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Roe v. Wade to be overturned?

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

  1. FileNotFound

    FileNotFound Well-Known Member

    This feels like … a small victory for women’s rights.
     
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  2. Twirling Time

    Twirling Time Well-Known Member

    The GOP is wising up and starting to realize that abortion is a big fat loser for them. Fantastic news for women, but could be bad news for Dems looking to keep the House.
     
  3. Matt1735

    Matt1735 Well-Known Member

    Sadly, you are wrong. They are saying what they think people want to hear. When they get elected, it will be an all-out war on abortion.
     
  4. Mngwa

    Mngwa Well-Known Member

    You actually believe them?
     
  5. Deskgrunt50

    Deskgrunt50 Well-Known Member

    Nobody in the retrumplican party is ever to be believed again. Liars, all. Forever and always.

    The party of “faith” sold its soul for a back alley reach-around. Burn in eternity.
     
  6. Twirling Time

    Twirling Time Well-Known Member

    Well, they had a chance to act on banning abortion in SC and in this case, didn't. That's not words, that's action.
     
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  7. Deskgrunt50

    Deskgrunt50 Well-Known Member

    Trumpublicans "say" they want abortion to be left up to the states. But they will absolutely push for a nationwide ban the second the get a sliver of power back.

    Sure, up to the states. But they sure as fuck don't want it on the ballot, you know, for the people to decide (hello, Kansas).

    A win in Michigan that should also drive Dem turnout:

     
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  8. micropolitan guy

    micropolitan guy Well-Known Member

    Some rights need to be preserved at the Federal level.

    "Leaving it up to the states" would have ensured de facto apartheid would have remained in the deep South if not for Federally-protected voting, housing and other civil rights laws passed enacted in the 1960s.
     
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  9. tapintoamerica

    tapintoamerica Well-Known Member

    Absolutely. If states rights were the law of the land, Black people would still be forbidden from staying in hotels in a lot of states. It took the gumption of a libruhl administration’s AG to figure out a way to use the commerce clause to integrate public accommodations.
    And LBJ wasn’t exactly the most enlightened guy.
     
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  10. Mngwa

    Mngwa Well-Known Member

    All you need to look at to understand that the states cannot be trusted is the way that they've attacked voting rights since SCOTUS gutted the voting rights act. They are any number of states in this country that do not want to make it easy for black people to vote.
     
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  11. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    Wait til the SCOTUS Catholic 5 get ahold of the commerce clause. We are going back in time 120 years back
     
  12. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    GOP: We’re going to let the states decide.

    Also GOP:

     
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