Abortion in America

Oh but it's only been about 50 odd years. If they leave it for another 50, who knows!?!?

Christians are of the thought '' why would you need an abortion if you lived in a moral way''

It's all about religion, like every war, every shooting, every election

GoDaddy.com's told the Texas rat-them-out site to bugger off. No doubt they'll land somewhere. Somewhere...without good security I hope. And extremely high prices for low bandwidth!

https://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/news/godaddy-texas-anti-abortion-tip-website-right-to-life-back-up-2529464

Lyft And Uber Offer To Pay Legal Fees For Drivers Sued Under Texas Abortion Law (forbes.com)

In another fine example of just how insane this new law is, even a taxi driver can be sued if they bring a pregnant woman to a clinic for an abortion. This is absolute madness.

Can he do that? And if he does could a successor Republican president jack it up again?

Yes. Biden can expand the supreme court and nominate as many judges as he likes, And, yes, his successor can do the same, so it could end up being a tit for tat with every time an administration changes hands, the supreme court gets bigger.

The problem is supreme court nominations need senate approval so only presidents that control the senate could pump the SC full of judges and successfully fill those seats.

What the SCOTUS currently have done, is basically tear up the US constitution. Their decision to allow a blatantly unconstitutional law to remain in force pending SCOTUS review of said blatantly unconstitutional law, is akin to saying that states do not have to apply the US constitution when drafting laws. It's a hugely dangerous precedent.

Biden may have no choice but to take the 'Nuclear option' to rebalance the supreme court.

Abortion is the canary in the coal mine for this SCOTUS. The fact that they let this ridiculous law stand means they will likely allow all kinds of other shenanigans from republican controlled states, voter suppression will be green lighted by this SCOTUS giving the next election to the republicans, and then it’s a downward spiral from there

Biden has no choice if he cares about democracy. He has to pull the trigger

Good news for the unborn all the same.

What about holding a referendum to enshrine something like Roe v Wade in the Constitution?

but not in the least bit surprising.

Can you expand a bit on the both sides are nuts? I'm not naive enough to think that everything within the party my values would more closely be aligned with but I think the 'both sides' thing doesn't really stand up to scrutiny.

Aside from the topic which this thread is about and the harm that that will do to people, they offer as a counter point continued efforts to reduce any form of government supported healthcare. I've already pointed out the hyopcrisy of people, on virtually the same day, arguing that bodily autonomy is a valid argument to prevent mask mandates, and that women cannot have bodily autonomy to terminate a pregnancy should they wish to do so.

Look at what the GOP have put their name to over just the last couple of years. Downplaying Covid, downplaying an attempted insurrection, attempting to undermine a valid election, cowtowing to an obviously incompetent President. At a state level they have introduced a raft of legislation to make it more difficult for some people to vote. They have not only been poor on Covid, they have introduced legislation preventing conscientious school boards from attempting to protect their staff and students.

Ted Cruz ran to Cancun when Texas had a snowstorm, AOC collected $5M for Texas support efforts. Mo Brooks is trying to inhibit an investigation in to the attempted insurrection, Cori Bush camped out to draw attention to, and build support for extending the eviction moratorium, which protected tenants from being evicted at this difficult time. (That extension was granted, but has sense been overruled.) Kelly Loeffler attended a Covid briefing in early 2020 and immediately sold millions in stock.

Kevin McCarthy was one of the first significant people to visit Trump in Mar-A-Lago, Bernie Sanders is visiting GOP areas, trying to build support for a 3.5T reconciliation Bill which among other things will expand healthcare.

Madison Cawthorn advocated violence as a response to Republicans losing further elections, Marjorie Taylor-Greene, downplayed the Holocaust, Lauren Boebert ranted against Government financial aid at CPAC, the 4 counties in her state with highest unemployment are all in her district.

Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnel both blamed Trump for the events of Jan 6th, neither of them voted to impeach him.

McConnell refused to let Obama nominate someone to the Supreme Court for the entirety of the last year of his Presidency, saying that it couldn't be done because of the upcoming election, he then allowed Amy Coney Barrett to be nominated and approved within 6 weeks of the Election at the end of Trumps term. The GOP held 11 enquiries in to Benghazi, they refused to support a full enquiry in to the insurrection on Jan 6th. In that insurrection, some Democrat members, were afraid of their lives, some GOP members were communicating directly with the President or were sending coded messages revealing the location of prominent Democrats.

No Republican, House or Senate voted for the pandemic relief bill, when it was passed, several of them campaigned on the back of having secured funding for their districts.

When the Covid vaccine was released, AOC brought a vaccine bus around her district which people could visit to get the vaccine, half the GOP members in the House refuse to say whether or not they themselves have been vaccinated. Last week, as New York suffered from Hurricane Ida, AOC's team texted people in their district asking 'Are you ok, do you need anything and saying if people indicated they needed assistance by responding to the text, someone would then get in touch directly. She also once again advocated for her Green New Deal being an effort to help limit/prevent the escalation of such events, the GOP refuse to acknowledge a link between current economy practices and climate change.

The 3 most indicted Presidents in history are Trump, Nixon and Reagan with 215, 76 and 26 indictments respectively associated with their administration. Three least indicted; Clinton, Carter and Obama with 2, 1 and 0 indictments respectively. Notice any correlation here with the parties both groups were members of?

Trump negotiated with the Taliban, freed 5000 of its soldiers and excluded the Afghan government from talks ahead of the planned departure of the US from the country. Biden actually went ahead and took the US out of there knowing that he was going to get massive stick for doing so. Trump literally refused to take responsibility for the Covid response, Biden said full responsibility for how the US ended up leaving Afghanistan was his, and his alone.

As I said, I know that the Dem's are far from perfect, and Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin are wolves in sheeps clothing. But to say that both sides are equally nuts but on opposite sides of the political spectrum is like saying that flat earthers and astrophysicists are comparable. It doesn't hold any water. At all.