Iowa Judge Temporarily Blocks State Legislature’s Brand New Six-Week Abortion Ban

Have fun avoiding the assassins, judge! (Said in the vein of Miracle Max waving bye-bye to the three heroes of the Princes Bride.) Have fun storming the castle!

Do not answer your phone or your mail for the next 20yr; don’t walk down a dark street alone. These people do not give up.

I mean, I read what Election Officials have been going thru and I am horrified. (The most I would do is simply not talk to a Trump Supporter; I would not “threaten” them.)

Rusty Bowers is a man I have NO politics in common but he is a HERO for what he did in Arizona!

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The merrits? The merrits!? The tower!! Rapunzle!! sigh…

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I trust y’all make exceptions for the Pete Wilsons, Richard Nixons, and Ronald Reagans? (Not to mention the old gang of representatives from Orange County and the current ones from the San Juaquin Valley.)

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Crap, I hadn’t thought of it that way.

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Absolutely.

How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
The entire issue is religious idiocy. When exactly does life begin? and who decides?

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I could be wrong, but I think you may be missing the Judge’s strategic, (and lethal), use of understatement, here. I mean, you’re completely right, the ruling does not say “all”, because the author wanted you to think about how any protections might not… and to conclude, that there aren’t any that don’t apply equally to everyone.

The Iowa Supreme court has had, heretofore, a long, and quite proud, history of holding that rights apply to everyone, all the time. The Iowa Supreme Court held slavery unconstitutional in 1834… ruling that no man in Iowa could be reduced to slavery. And, rather more recently, they decided that the law about marriage applied to everyone, and anyone, because two people, similarly situated, could not be treated differently under the law, so if two men, or two women wanted to get married, Iowa had to accommodate them.

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With the current Court, it’s more like, “Stare Decisis? Who’s she?”

(With the Beer Bro chiming in: "I fucked her at Georgetown Prep. ")