As Red States Try To Seal Borders Against Abortion, Mailed Pills Zoom Around The US

In these earliest days of the post-Roe world, those both supporting and opposing abortion rights are scrambling on shifting sands to find loopholes in anti-abortion regimes, and to snap them shut.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1424336
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Umm…why would abortion right supporters be trying to close loopholes in the anti-abortion regimes?

Wouldn’t they be trying to exploit them?

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furst and how can people sit through this shit?
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What a nice ass hole
AOC Slams Harasser For Sexist Comment On Capitol Steps | Crooks and Liars

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Congress: we’ve got one shot at this in November. Otherwise, this chaos will be the norm.

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The SCOTUS has thrown gasoline on the flames of the current U.S. Civil War.

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Next up: medical ships supplying reproductive healthcare, including abortion access, out beyond the 3-mile limit.

That’ll show those political hacks at SCOTUS just how hackified they really are!

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Over a centaury ago a group of religious zealots attempted to regulate personnel morality by passing a law prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcohol.

It was then that an unofficial rule of law kicked in: It is impossible to enforce a law forbidding people from accessing goods or services if the majority of the population wants those goods or services. In this case people wanted booze, and they would get it one way or the other. This was the single biggest reason for the rise of organized crime in the 20’s and 30’s.

When I sell liquor, it’s called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it’s called hospitality.

Al Capone

A minoritarian Supreme Court may have overturned 50 years of precedent in defiance of the will of the Majority. A bunch of Red State theocratic fascist may try to enforce that decision by making Abortion Services illegal. GLWTS.

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Sand, fingers.

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If Federal laws supersede state laws (which is something that SCOTUS has affirmed many times in the past), how would it be possible for individual states to regulate the USPS which is a department within the Federal government?

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Because first rule
IOKIYAR

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Brought to you by the Zombie Fools, Theocrats, Xtians, SC Justices who think States’ Rights are the answer to everything complex…and let’s not forget was also the standard justification for Slavery, Death Sentences, Peonage, Segregation, and Jim Crow Laws. A sentient being would think that sordid history would make any States’ Rights argument DOA, but not in the world of AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM, where bad ideas never go away forever.

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‘We hope she would understand’: National Right to Life official thinks 10-year-old should have birthed rapist’s baby - Raw Story - Celebrating 18 Years of Independent Journalism

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Words Fail.

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Good for her. She doesn’t take sh** from anyone.

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I’d write what I think should happen to the lawyer, but that would probably be inadvisable.

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Perfectly sensible idiocy. Just let the pregnancy kill the ten year old like ectopic pregnancy does to adult women.

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As I read the article and that sentence [in context, eh?], supporters are seeking to find [and utilize] them, whilst the goons are seeking to clamp them shut.

@kate_riga

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State governments can’t touch the USPS, which is why the laws they’re trying to enact are either meaningless because they can’t restrict out-of-state suppliers, or else they target individuals within the state helping women get access to the pills.

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One provider tested the system with vials of dried garbanzo beans…
Jogged my memory there:
Ivanka on Garbanzo Beans

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