The Iowa Supreme Court split 3-3 on reviving a six-week abortion ban Friday, blocking the ban and keeping the procedure legal in the state.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1460882
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1460882
Seems to me that government should stay out of women’s uteri
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What are you, some kind of pinko liberal commie nazi?!!!??!?
Of course old white men know best what women need! They are way too emotional to make their own healthcare decisions!
(sarcasm, obviously)
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Referring to a different case, Waterman intones: “It would be ironic and troubling for our court to become the first state supreme court in the nation to hold that trash set out in a garbage can for collection is entitled to more constitutional protection than a woman’s interest in autonomy and dominion over her own body.”
That is what three of your colleagues wanted to do.
That is what Republicans across the country want to do, including in Iowa.
The only surprise is to have a Justice state it so clearly.
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These folks are flailing. Some of these Republican idiots are starting to realize their goose is cooked with the reversal of Roe. Like Dr. Oz said: “abortion should be a decision between 'a woman, her doctor, and local elected officials”.
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And MSM keeps repeating the ‘fetal heartbeat’ bs. There is no heartbeat at 6 weeks. Dems need to add that to their talking points and hold the media to the facts.
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“. . . the wisdom of Dobbs.”
Laugh? Or cry?
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A 6-week old zygote looks like a piece of navel lint less than a half inch in diameter.
It has no heartbeat because it has no heart. It just has electrical impulses.
The actual rudimentary heart begins to beat at around 35 to 37 gestational days.
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It is important that IA, a state that has trended hard right, is keeping abortion legal. IA is a good lab for the mindset of the white voter well b/c it’s pretty white and polling there will tell you something about how non college white voters are trending nationwide. The state’s partisan balance is now clearly more GOP so no Dem can win there without winning Indies and getting a net positive crossover vote. This isn’t the IA electorate of 2008.
For the Dems to swing IA back towards them, I think abortion has to be front and center. It is really one of the key lynchpin issues for the 2024 campaign. We saw in 2022 that where abortion rights were truly on the state ballot the Dems did really well. This IA decision also makes it clear that abortion will matter in IA if Dems can make it an issue.
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"Today, they set aside that respect and caution, sit as a three-person super general assembly, and hold the fetal heartbeat law unconstitutional,” . . . I disagree with this results-oriented approach to deciding cases.”
The proper and just disposition of this case requires that I and my two esteemed colleagues sit as a three-person super general assembly, empowered to impose our results-oriented approach to deciding cases and hold the fetal heartbeat law constitutional as a matter of natural law.
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Exactly so, and the sooner men in government learn that the better we off we women will be.
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You may be echoing what all these old white men are thinking and often acting on. Banning or allowing abortions is no one else’s business but the pregnant woman and her doctor. Jokes and sarcasm not needed either.
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Turns out the Repubs are IN FAVOR of the deep state…
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Sorry, just a bit confused here (and it’s not that important), but 35-37 days is 5 weeks, so, what am I missing in your comment?
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Iowa has a very touchy Supreme Court. Reading the exerpts from the two judges I was thinking that one of them might call the other a name at any moment.
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Proverbs 12:15: The way of the fool is right in his own eyes.
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abortion in Iowa remains legal up to 22 weeks.
Conservatives and Liberals agree. The law must provide for the legitimate use of abortion procedures as needed by the patient.
Go further. Enact heavy penalties for patient harassment, intimidation, including slander, blackmail, and violation of privacy.
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Christamitey! This isn’t holy writ copied from generation to generation by anchorites in drafty Monasteries!
"…then receiving the wisdom of Dobbs"
ETA:
Latter day Pharisees.
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I posit that the “mainstream media” is no longer mainstream.
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And you can tell how wise it is by how the various candidates for office are all scampering away from it as fast as they can, like scared jackrabbits.
The judges don’t give a damn. But GOP reps in purplish districts pretty clearly do.
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