Kentucky Republicans overrode Gov. Andy Beshear’s (D) veto Wednesday night on an abortion law so restrictive that the state’s few remaining clinics will no longer be able to operate.
I don’t even know anymore, man. Other than that’s another state added to my no fly list.
Just imagining what the country would be like if states took this approach to Brown v Board of Ed–which they tried!–and instead of enforcing the law the SCOTUS and feds just shrugged and said, eh.
The race to the bottom continues. When the radical right wingers on the Supreme Court overturn (or gut) “Roe v Wade”, about half of the states will impose the religious dogma of so-called Christians on the entire population. They don’t care if someone is raped. They don’t care if someone is the victim of incest. They don’t care if a pregnancy is dangerous to the mother. They don’t care if an embryo has no brain or otherwise can’t live outside of the womb. They don’t care about anything other than forcibly imposing their purported religious views on all of us.
More is to come. Expect states (like Missouri is about to adopt) to prohibit their citizens from getting abortions in other states, and to criminally punish medical professionals in those other places). Will the radical Supreme Court majority allow this?
We are no where near the bottom. I would be remiss to forget thanking anti Hillary liberals in 2016 who let Trump win. They own this, almost as much as right wing loons.
Who says they didn’t succeed in ignoring Brown v. Board? In every state controlled by the Dixiecrats, they eventually settled on the response of moving white kids into private segregation academy schools, then defunding the public schools and also subsidizing the segregation academies with as much public money as they could shovel at them. It’s de facto segregation for any white parents who want and can afford it.
As to abortion access, I continue to believe from my own state’s example that the only thing that’s really going to motivate a pro-abortion electoral backlash is a few years worth of horror stories and actual women and their doctors getting sent to prison. I see zero – zero! – indication that Texans are worked up about this.
Amen to that. As furious as I was with the “never Hillary” crowd and the “we wuz robbed” Bernieites in 2016, I’m even more furious now. They have literally destroyed the future of this country.
Most people only learn from bad things occurring— repeatedly. Even then, right wingers just don’t care what happens to most of us. They hate us and want to rule in a way to repeatedly harm us.
Louisville is a wonderful place that I’m proud to call home. Kentucky has the same problem that most of the other red states have. We have liberal cities that vote blue and regressive assholes throughout the rural parts of the state that vote with the specific intent to hurt us. NY, CA, and all the blue states have the same problem. The only difference is that there are a lot more people in their big cities which allows them to drown out the crazy.
Totally aware. However voting with your wallet is a thing, and there are some economies I just won’t directly contribute to as long as those terrible people remain in power.
(Nothing against the good people who live in these states, of course. Just as I’m not faulting the rank and file employees of companies I don’t support.)
Easy answer: No. The right to interstate travel is well established and pretty central to things that Republicans still like, and states lack jurisdiction to criminalize and prosecute extraterritorial conduct. Also, too, it would be politically disastrous beyond belief to criminalize suburban white women for sending their little darlings on vacation to California for a few days to remedy their slip-ups.
I hope you’re correct. In related news, neither of us would have ever imagined a year ago the blatantly unconstitutional Texas vigilante anti abortion law would be allowed to stand, rather than being stayed pending appeal.
I fully expect this to be challenged up to the Supreme Court and then decided in the shadow docket.
I kind of hope the Supreme Court abolishes abortion completely before November. Then people will see that there may actually be a problem with voting blindly for Republicans. The issue has always been that whackadoo, way-out-of-the-norm republican platforms are looked at like “they would never do that” and the party is normalized by the media. Let’s have a really stark choice next election…
They may not be “worked up” about it but they should consider that it does not stop there. Taking things away is what the GOP calls freedom and in Texas and here in Florida they’re just getting started. Next up will be forced religion and forced patriotism. It’s GOP’er wet dream time now that dream team SCOTUS is here.
Maybe not. Abortion impacts a small percentage of people and no one thinks they’re in that percentage. If you want outrage you need to stick it the majority like Prohibition. For now the GOP has taken it’s inch with abortion. The mile is coming.
Next up will be outlawing contraception. Looks like my generation may be one of the last to be able to make decisions about our reproductive life. I am so angry about this.
My recollection is that I was totally unsurprised that the looney tunes Fifth Circuit stepped in to lift the temporary stay, and that I was agnostic about what SCOTUS was likely to do with it. I do recall being confident that Roberts would vote to reinstall that stay, because it is a defining feature of his jurisprudence that lower courts must respek his authoritah by not overruling SCOTUS from below. I ended up being right about that.
What I have been saying from basically Day 1 is that somebody needs to work up a real test case in the Texas state courts, because vigilante standing is plainly and obviously unconstitutional under the Texas constitution. SCOTX is never going to approve it, because it’s such a garbage concept that they know can and would be weaponized against the interests of their favored constituencies when Texas turns blue sometime in the next decade.
Public derision of the GOP.
To date, that has not been expressed nearly enough.
I think it will be abortion meds which in fact are not abortifacients but they have the moniker so they’ll target them. After that will come the really wacky crap. Controlling what a person does in another state. After that it will be religion everywhere. Politics OK’ed in Churches and Jesus mandatory in schools. Then comes the good stuff. Conservative ideology in public ed. Elections will be locked down with a GOP’er key.
@richardinjax may be right that this won’t cleave a huge chunk off the Republican turnout, but in many cases we don’t really need a huge chunk. We just need a few percentage points.
And I think @dmcg is right that a non-trivial number of Republican voters – who comfortably voted red in the past knowing that extremism would be held in check – will now rethink that position.
I’ve been hearing for many years Texas will turn blue. I don’t buy it. Many of those moving there are right wingers (such as my brother in law and his family), and Latinos are not really that liberal anymore in Texas. I also don’t think GOPers in Texas will make it possible to lose power. They’ll keep gerrymandering and imposing increasing restrictions on voting that the current radical extremist US Supreme Court will rubberstamp.