The Right religious conservatives and who knows who else have today overturned the constitutional right to abortion in the US.
Will this now embolden anti abortionists in this country to fight back?
The US is a cold place for women now.
That's cool but can you not see how someone else may have a different view and draw their line?
Way too many people I the world, abortion should be widely available especially in Africa, Asia and anywhere overpopulation is causing a drain on resources
It's almost like their constitution specfically states that the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed but makes zero mention of abortion, weird eh?
In other comparison news:
I hope you can stop pretending that.
It's a silly hyperbolic position. At least you recognise you are pretending though.
Again, this was considered in the ultimate calculus of that session of Congress:
They didn't just 'ignore abortion' as some separate issue. Republicans were actively fighting them for expanding restrictions on abortion IN the healthcare bill.
Ooof. See it's this type of view on abortion that makes me uneasy.
Effectively yes. Trump picked 3 of the Justices who served the decision, incl. one who was rushed in in the middle of a general election. Trump vowed, among other things, to pick only candidates who would overturn Roe.
Agree .
Their constitution as it applies today needs to be overhauled and a new constitution voted on by modern Americans . Crazy that this has been allowed to run on in a country that prides itself on its forward thinking and success .
Gun control, Abortion rights , Equality everything hinges on a constitution from 1700s written for a different society , so protected its akin to religious zeal that noone can challenge it .
How can a modern society function based on a constitution that dates back to witch burnings ?
Crazy and very sad for all over there .
Even if some citizens now agree with this right wing fundamentalist Supreme Court , who knows where this will end for them?
Gilead , indeed .
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The right to choose alluded to in my comment is just that. The right to choose whether or not to continue a pregnancy.
If bodily autonomy matters and many have made their opinion regarding that topic over the past 18 months. It must also follow that that same autonomy extends from refusing a vaccine through to refusing to endure a pregnancy. The right to choose matters, that right is an affirmation of the right to bodily autonomy that many on the US right trumpeted in opposition to vaccine mandates. It is not a conditional right, not based upon ones gender, or fertility.
Also very pertinent in this (SCOTUS) discussion is the candour displayed by the 3 Trump appointees. All said Roe was settled, all confirmed primacy of Stare Decisis, all assented to revoking the ruling. In the highest court of the land, a lifetime appointment, the examination of candidates by the senate is the only way to ascertain an appointees views. I find it quite interesting that 3 appointees have recanted there stated positions on Roe in an effort to disavow it. Either they lied at their affirmation hearings, or some new legal theory has arisen that revokes stare decisis, the doctrine of unenumerated rights and basic common sense. If it's the latter? I've yet to see it borne out in the judgement either draft or final.
They can hold a different view, but the problem is when their "line" begins to impede or restrict someone elses' rights - then they're crossing a line.
They are targeting contraception, gay marriage and privacy next. They literally said it in the ruling against Roe v Wade. Its hilarious you can still say this kind of thing with a straight face.
Reminds of the people saying people over reacted to Trump being elected, and yet those of us who said this kind of **** would happen, were proven right, every single damn time.
No hyperbole here at all, but a whole lot of denial from people, who have chosen to ignore the bloody obvious in front of them, lest there world view falls apart.
Looks to me,they had a majority to push through it,but choose not to tbh
Its a failed idology,that drives wealth inequality and leaves too many behind.....america has 40million living in trailer parks,millions more homeless,an socio-political idology that causes this,can/should only be classed as a failure
Well yeah we have seen the disaster that is capitalism, but if you dare say anything, people call you a filthy commie....
under his eye....
Dear God no, please, not this again 😂
It’s a work of fiction, based upon the writers own political views. It is not based upon reality.
It's in our Constitution and there is no way any government will bring that back to the people, especially as there were 66% in support of doing away with the 8th. The drive to add the 8th was CJ and the Catholic Church, that influence is long gone.
Most of the Dail support the availability of it anyway as do the vast majority of people so there is no chance of repeal. Much as you seem to desire it, we are not a dysfunctional democracy with hardened positions on moral issues like the US. Like the majority of European countries we favour having such a service available to women.
Always makes me snigger people screaming commie at me,given i actually own income producing assets😅
what is "safe" about 15 year old teenagers being allowed to purchase assault rifles ??
do you realise that the average age of school shooters, since tracking began, is 18 years of age ??
if you think making guns illegal for teenagers to purchase would result in it being easier for teenagers to get them, then your warped.
How are you regarding this as a failure of Liberalism, specifically, and not the US?
I wonder if some day there will a Secession by the Blue States. Red America and Blue America. Red America you are ruled by the hard Right Fundie Christians, Blue America you are run by the Liberals and are FREEEEE.
But who will pay for the Red State Badlands survival?
Margaret Atwood once said she based Gilead on Iraq fwiw.
Like the American citizens constitutional right to own firearms.
Its everywhere in the world,(housing/asset costs are becoming unaffordable to average people in large tracts of western world due to it),just the us (and uk to lesser extent)are further along the path than rest of world
These endings arent flaws/failures,they are inevitable by its system of taxation....people point to eire as progressive tax system,but are unable to explain why gap between rich and poor rises near annually.......
its demise near mirrors communism in form,in that it relies on increased militarisation to hold its hedgemony and is unable to react to improve peoples lives (we have similar here with calls to join nato at estimated cost of 80 billion).....
recently musk got into a dispute and offered to pay the 40 billion to end worldhunger to avoid paying tax...(he never did)....the US with a ever increasing list of social problems its unable to tackle,recently agreed to donate 40 billion in weapons to ukraine......its failing as a idology,when it wont improve lives,but can come up with endless money to fight endless wars......the fact people are expected to support this unquestioned is beyond me
How on earth in 2022 can there be a regression of gay and contraception rights in a western country! Even suggesting this is depraved and prejudiced.
I know there is a strong expectation that the Democrats will do poorly in the midterms but lets hope this decision will cause the mid terms to be a single issue election for a lot of people and vote against the GOP instead.
Pretty sure Musk's tax bill was 11 billion dollars. Why would you pay 40 billion dollars to avoid paying 11 billion?
Wires might be crossed there I'd say Blaaz
dems have done nothing cause they want to fund raise off of it.
but when in power, they have endless excuses why they cant legislate on these issues.
republicans have no such reluctance in wielding power to accomplish their goals
Margaret Atwood also once said she was inspired to write The Handmaid’s Tale based upon her conflicting feelings about the Chador she purchased while on holiday in Afghanistan in 1978 -
Six years after our trip, I wrote The Handmaid's Tale, a speculative fiction about an American theocracy. The women in that book wear outfits derived in part from nuns' costumes, partly from schoolgirls' hemlines, partly - I must admit - from the faceless woman on the Old Dutch Cleanser box, but also partly from the chador I acquired in Afghanistan and its conflicting associations. As one character says, there is freedom and freedom from. But how much of the first should you have to give up in order to assure the second? All cultures have had to grapple with that, and our own - as we are now seeing - is no exception. Would I have written the book if I had never visited Afghanistan? Possibly. Would it have been the same? Unlikely.
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2001/nov/17/afghanistan.weekend7
The irony of the Republicans boasting about pro life whilst holding their assault rifles closely.
It shouldn't, free abortion for all that can't afford or want a child, it's that simple
Republicans have tended to in favour of 'complexities'... being pro-life and pro-guns = "belligerent and numerous"
Ok so even though this is a cartoon, I think the real Nixon would have approved.
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