She needs to be hammered on this all day every day.
This draft echoes arguments honed by right-to-life lawyers for decades–very much not the opinion one would write if you were seeking to minimize backlash.
WaR: it doesn’t just echo arguments by far-right lawyers, it was drafted by them. Circulating a draft opinion outside the court would greatly increase the odds of an unprecedented leak. Outside lawyers’ incentives are very different from SCOTUS clerks’. Perhaps an Eastman-like person leaked it because they were afraid their coalition was weakening, or Roberts agreed to change his vote in exchange for some softening rhetoric that would avoid “overturning” roe, while still preventing non-rich women getting abortions.
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It was not a surprise to me, but there will be other extremist decisions coming down the pike. The court which claims itself to be above partisan politics are nothing but hired hacks.
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They’ve been living in that nation ever since it was founded, but I take your point on this issue.
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Slaves were also considered property who could be killed. This is essentially making women slaves to a fertilized egg.
Yet another reason I don’t necessarily oppose personhood for “the unborn”. Personhood carries responsibilities as well as rights and enslaving another human is an expressly prohibited activity
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Looks like Murkowski and Collins are now in a very tight spot…
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But they will stand with their tribe.
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That was a joke, right?
Fuck Roberts. His court is going to go down in history with Taney.
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Not to mention the deaths, . . . of many women.
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If the filibuster is killed now and R’s win in the fall and 2024, expect a federal fetal personhood law that will last at least until the second R Justice dies or retires.
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This 5-4 majority opinion brought to you Courtesy of the critical vote of Amy Covid Bigot, Woman.
This isn’t a male/female issue, it’s the control-freak religious right who want to control everyone else’s bodies and life choices.
And it’s both women and men together destroying things. Everytime I drive past the local clinic, the protesters outside are quite equally represented by males and females.
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The belief in the existence of a soul is a belief rooted in religion. There is no empirical basis for such a belief. So, if opposition to abortion is rooted in hominization (ensoulment as in modern theistic evolution) then those opposed to abortion are imposing their religious beliefs on those who believe differently. It’s the antithesis of everything America stands for … or used to stand for.
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In addition to Afghanistan, we could soon join with the other countries of the world who ban abortion under any circumstances: Andorra, Aruba, Republic of the Congo, Curaçao, Dominican Republic, Egypt, El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Iraq, Jamaica, Laos, Madagascar, Malta, Mauritania, Nicaragua, Palau, Philippines, San Marino, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Suriname, Tonga, West Bank, and Gaza.
Once upon a time, we had great expectations for this country. Not so much anymore. We might soon belong to a new club.
I am profoundly disheartened to see what this country is becoming. Fifty years of progress in women’s rights is being thrown away by hateful politicians and their lackey lawyers and supporters.
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Really? Murkowski problems are with the right, not with the liberals. As for Collins she is not up for re-election until 2026 and Maine is turning red.
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That’s a dead end. The reason people get all worked up and emotional about “killing babies” is that they’re too willfully ignorant about the facts of human biology.
A fetus is not a person. It has that potential, but it’s a clump of cells that gets flushed out of women’s bodies all the time in spontaneous miscarriages and failure to implant. Ignorance of science is the problem, as usual in this country.
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Nor me. With the fab five, expected no less.
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Most Catholics, like Joe Biden. Tim Kaine, etc. believe it is a personal choice and that government should not have a voice in controlling a woman’s body.
News alert: Catholic women also use birth control despite what the church says
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I mention is because I was vilified in the comments for not being automatically opposed to personhood for a fetus (however that was to be defined) in reference to an article about calls for that.
Doesn’t affect my underlying point that gestational slavery is slavery and supposedly we had this 13th amendment thing prohibiting slavery…