Doc Holliday said:
BaylorJacket said:
303Bear said:
BaylorJacket said:
It is a sad day - an unelected court of judges overturns a policy supported by nearly 70% of Americans.
SCOTUS is not meant to uphold majority sentiment. If abortion is so popular, there should be no risk at all as every state will quickly codify it.
If anything, this perfectly illustrates the danger of courts creating positive rights rather than protecting people by protecting them from government overreach through negative rights.
Due to the supremacy clause, congress could pass federal laws codifying all of the supposedly "threatened" rights and no state could countermand that. That no congress in 50 years bothered to do so with abortion is interesting, and ultimately why this ruling even matters at all.
I completely agree with you, Congress had decades to do something.
Regardless of the politics behind these decisions, I am just disheartened for especially women of poverty in red states
With options like condoms, birth control and plan b…it's insane that women still have unwanted pregnancies.
It's always been hypocritical of the left to demand abortion, but have absolutely no concern over the huge lack of personal responsibility and prevention awareness of pregnancy.
Generally agree with you on unwanted pregnancies with some exceptions.
Rape / sexual assault victims are sympathetic, and while I can understand the desire, I cannot get to a place where I believe one horrible crime justifies the killing of the innocent. Would much rather see effort and resources go into after care (both physical and mental) for victims and their families, as well as better policing practices to investigate and prosecute these crimes.
Medically necessary abortions are 100% real, though they are blessedly rare. Things like ectopic pregnancies will kill the mother 100% of the time, and they cannot be maintained long enough to ever hope to produce a viable living child. Certain other conditions such as severe hypertension / diabetes (which can be brought on or exacerbated by a pregnancy) or trauma situations justify, to me, prioritizing a mother's life over that of the child.
That said, the vast, vast majority of abortions are not performed for such reasons or in such circumstances.