Booray said:
Doc Holliday said:
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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.
Couples have unplanned pregnancies, not women. And birth control is not 100% effective. The idea that all women control this type of decision making is unbelievably sheltered and naive.
Women and children are also raped and end up pregnant as a result.
In the news this week: a judge in Brazil blocked an 11-year-old rape victim from getting an abortion for weeks. She finally got it at 22 weeks--a bad outcome for everyone involved. An 11-year-old might suffer permanent health issues by carrying a pregnancy to tem. How anyone could possibly think that such a pregnancy is part of God's plan and must be preserved regardless of its impact on her body and mental health is beyond me.
I rolled my eyes at the "pregnant person" characterization until it dawned on me that lots of unplanned pregnancies happen to children due to rape or incest. Girls are also entering puberty earlier thanks to our diet--some as early as 8 or 9.
The New York Times published a harrowing account from a woman who recalled being taken to an OB/GYN in downtown Dallas by her father for a pregnancy test. He had raped her. She had decided that, if the test was positive, she was going to find a place where she could jump off a balcony and commit suicide. Fortunately, the test was negative, and her anger over the test and then being taken out to a nice restaurant for lunch by Papa Perv was so great that she gained the courage to stand up to him and end the abuse.
Nothing I say will put an end to the smug self-satisfaction of right-wingers of both sexes who have now reduced women to second-class citizens without complete right of agency over their medical choices and those who believe God is happy about this result and that it reflects His will for women.
One outcome I hope will happen is more DNA testing. We can now determine who the father is at 8 weeks. Men and boys should share equally in the cost of prenatal care and pay child support or for counseling for women who do as Amy Coney Barrett blithely suggested and leave the baby at a firehall. Women shouldn't have to literally bear the sole burden of the obligation of birth the hard-core Religious right will now imposed on them with the force of law alone. It takes 2.