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.
The 13th amendment abolished slavery. There is nothing in the constitution about abortion.
If the constitution does not address an issue and Congress can not muster the required numbers to pass legislation, then it is an issue for each state to address.
On an issue like abortion, which is handled through parliaments in pretty much all of the Western world, and whose laws can differ considerably from place to place, allowing the states to address the issue is the best option.
It's not actually. It's only in our Constitution that it must be regulated by law. That was the amendment we voted on. Theoretically, the Dail could set whatever law it liked.
In practice, the 8th was a counterpoint that restrained other rights in the constitution. Unamended it's likely that the SC would find that the right exists elsewhere (privacy, bodily autonomy, etc) but that hasn't been tested.
Then again it's hard to say what way out SC could go, after all it did uphold some child's playground antics ( one boy slapped another boy on the bare arse, with no sexual intent) as sexual assault resulting in a 14 year old boy being a sex offender.
No emotion . Tongue in cheek. And utterly irrestible !
Why ? It's TRUE. 😉
How "like for like" would you like, for like?
They don't have the beheadings or the suicide bombing campaigns but they do have many of the same ideas about women and LGBTQ+ rights.
Back in the late 70s
I understand emotions are high, but are we really comparing like for like here?
Discussion goes nowhere when we talk like this.
You meant "simple" as in easy. I meant "simple" as in stupid
so someone who has a miscarriage has killed their child accidently? join the real world please
technically youre right, it would be much better if the right to this healthcare would part of their constitution. what is now going to happen however is that access is going to be severely restricted since it will be decided at state level
That's the logic that led to this result in the US.
If you can't respect people all you'll ever achieve is more and more antagonistic results.
Very true . Wonder if there is anything there in the fact that they lied to the Senate committees that can be used to unseat them ?
Are these hearings taken under oath ? Perjury ?
That statement is completely off the rails 🤪
so rights should be arbitrary depending on which part of the country you live in?
what if some southern states decided they want slavery back?
just turn a blind eye to those enslaved because that state "voted" for it?
tyranny of the majority
How did I "intend" it
Yes, agree ... the Taliban are more honest about their wish to control women.
Good decision to overturn. As we saw in Ireland, best for abortion to be decided by legislatures/referenda instead of through constitution and judges. The original decision was a mistake which led to today's outcome.
It never made sense in a country as culturally diverse as America that New York and North Dakota would be forced to have the same abortion law, particularly when there's nothing in the constitution about it and Congress couldn't present a majority for a constitutional amendment or legislation one way or the other.
For once the US does something that can ultimately tone down the culture war. Very reasonable to let voters in their own states have the laws that reflect the will of the people living in those states.
Yes.. this only yesterday . Pack of hypocrites .
Wrong to kill the unborn ....you can shoot small children though !
Still not seeing how this connects to Liberalism?
Shocking decision setting back the US 50 years... Republicans will pay a heavy price in the mid terms for this.
Its a consequence of a decades long plan to imbalance the Supreme Court Justice's to the right, Trump (that's the guy who paid off two women he was having extra marital affairs with hush money in the run up to the 2016 election) has stuffed with SCOTUS with 3.... yes THREE!!!! appointments (all right leaning Conservatives)...>>> this is the result.
The Democrats should have on day one of Biden's term expanded the Justices by at least 2 to balance out the panel which had already gone too far to the right.
It is very simple. Just not by the definition of "simple" that you intended.
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.
It shouldn't, free abortion for all that can't afford or want a child, it's that simple
The irony of the Republicans boasting about pro life whilst holding their assault rifles closely.
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
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
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
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.
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
Like the American citizens constitutional right to own firearms.
Margaret Atwood once said she based Gilead on Iraq fwiw.
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