-
Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.
BREAKING: Alabama lawmakers vote to effectively totally ban Abortion in the state
- Thread starter OtherWorldly
- Start date
I'm just hoping that they'll have the conviction to do what they need to do, because I picture them deciding not to pack the courts as part of taking the high road.
Same.
If that's what Dems (Congressmen and voters alike) have to use to push through with this than so be it.
Push as many liberals into courts as possible or risk having women convicted and jailed for having a miscarriage. Sounds like a good incentive to me.
Yep. They see it as a way of punishing women for having sex. They've weaponized babies.
Smol Government
We all who are in the know ought to recognize the true motive behind this legislation.
We all who are in the know ought to recognize the true motive behind this legislation.
Then women will just decline to go medical professionals when they believe they're pregnant, relying solely on over the counter tests and whatever household remedies they opt to use immediately after.
Doctors can't report shit if they don't know about it.
OP
OP
How high is Alabama in incest pregnancies. I could have sworn I read they are the highest or one of the highest
I ask because I believe some states are adding rules that make that illegal too. Will it be here as well?
Also, are they going to make Plan B more accessible for women?
Albama shooting for number one (if you look at the list backwards)
That wouldn't have done anything. Those dumbasses had their minds made up, I know. I tried.
No idea, but it'll certainly make for an interesting scenario when police arrest a woman returning to her state because she got abortion.
SPOILER ALERT: Joe Biden wins the election, does jack shit since he thinks he can work with Republicans and then an actually competent version of Trump is elected as the last President of the Untied States in 2024.
You just have to love old, white Americans. Literally the greatest decision makers of all-time. Nailed another decision out the park here. Fuck women and allowing them to have agency over their own body. For fucks sake, the Republican party needs to be abolished.
I'm going to keep saying this when this BS pops up but I voted for Hillary.
Pretty much. The Georgia bill is a legitimate attempt at something getting approved by SCOTUS. This is hardly the first time AL has passed a shitty bill that will inevitably get overruled at the Federal level. If I remember right, they had to be threatened to start approving gay marriage certificates.
Nah they plan to make that shit illegal or hard to get too. Condoms or bust to them because, you know they hate women.
That might be the goal of those pushing for it in Alabama, but it's not wise for their position because the current Court is not going to want to overturn Roe in its entirety on a 5-4 vote. Now, if Ginsburg kicks the bucket and is replaced by a pro-life woman, then that changes things quite a bit, as a 6-3 decision with a woman involved is a lot different in terms of the pressure Roberts (and probably Kavanaugh) would feel to vote a certain way.
Can we just cut Alabama out of the states? Clearly, they want to go back to the Confederacy anyway.
Packing the courts will only do so much when the electoral college will disproportionately favour Republicans with every passing year.
So long as the electoral college and gerrymandering still exist, any victory for Democrats is temporary and powerless. More and more so every year.
So as I gather it it functionally allows Doctors who perform abortions to be charged with a felony.
Pretty much. Certain states are going go back to shady backroom abortions and women are going to die. Even if the SC strikes this down dumbass conservatives are dead set on killing women
I'm just saying voting is not enough. It doesn't matter who is to blame. What matters is results. Fighting against this evil is a responsibility for all decent people. I tried to change the people i know I tried to get my friends involved to make a difference but if I didn't make the difference then I didn't try hard enough.
We have to get involved.
I don't understand how people in rural areas feel politically powerless when the entire system seems rigged to favor them over millions of people in cities.
14 other states have passed bills this year or are working to pass this year for the purpose of getting before the supreme court. This isn't just going to go away
This is my guess. With as much yeehawin and shit that they do, I don't think Roberts would want to go down in the books as stripping women of their rights. They'll let a lower court decide it and refuse to hear it.
The lieutenant governor of Alabama pushed for this legislation last week. At the time, it failed. He released a public statement that the aim was to push this to the SC and overturn Roe.
yes. that's their stated goal. they know this ban will get struck down by lower courts because it's clearly against precedent but they want to appeal to SCOTUS.
this ban may be too extreme so SCOTUS will simply decline to hear the case after the law gets struck down, but it only takes four justices to get a case heard.
Given the way the Senate is designed to work, you can expect more of this kind of thing. Nothing changes until we are all ready to physically eject these people from power.
He would appoint a liberal justice to replace RBG, Breyer, and a hopefully soon to be dead Thomas so yeah he would on this wise ass.
It's sad and true. I mean, that's exactly what we see. People denying their own needs (healthcare, government assistance, SNAP, etc._ so "those people" won't get some of it.This quote may be over used but...
The further all this goes, the more I'm convinced we're going to see significant violence at some point. When the pendulum swings inevitably back at some point, there's a whole group of people being primed to reject the results as deputy state or fake news or a fucking Pizzagate-esque conspiracy. And the current admin has been systematically stripping away all the protections - investigation of far right organizations and giving them cover, gutting the credibility of the FBI and ATF, putting too much power in ICE and furthering the militarization tendencies of swaths of the nation's police.
Or they won't give up power and the people will have had enough of stolen votes and disenfranchisement and minority rule.
Add in the inevitable downturn in the economy and the worsening of climate...
We're basically fucked.
Just when I thought I couldn't despise parts of my country even more. These shitheads are welcome to vote themselves backwards in time as far as I am concerned. Terrible as hell and I feel awful for the woman who live there and will have choices taken from them, but maybe it will drive decent people to leave for greener pastures. So glad to live in California.
