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Texas Law could circumvent Roe V. Wade
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RE: Texas Law could circumvent Roe V. Wade
(September 1, 2021 at 9:41 am)HappySkeptic Wrote: I would like to think that is true, but I don't think so.  The religious right wields huge power - more than ever before.  Look how women denied Trump the presidency in 2016 -- oh no, wait -- they didn't.  Many switched to Trump.

Define "many switched to Trump." There was a decline in the percentage of women who voted Democrat in 2016, but it was by a single percentage point. And it went back up by three percentage points in 2020.

Case in point, How Groups Voted in 2012, 2016, and 2020

(September 1, 2021 at 2:34 pm)onlinebiker Wrote:
(September 1, 2021 at 12:26 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: That the US Supreme Court did nothing to stop this says what we need to know.

Might be time to start adding to the number of judges.
Then the R's will add some when they get back in the position to do so --- pretty soon you will have hundreds on the bench.......

And hey - they still die and retire - so whoever is in office gets to replace them......


Long term - adding members is a very bad idea...

Problems with this argument:
1) There can still be limits written into legislation; FDR's court packing plan even specified a limit of 17 judges.
2) Fun fact: the only way the Republicans could even get to that level of power that they have in the past couple years is by restricting who gets to vote. Donald Trump and Linsdey Graham have both gone on record as saying that without their bullshit restrictions on who gets to vote, there'd never be another President again. This might be changed if they decided to not make hostility towards anyone who isn't a straight, white, cisgender, Christian man (and wealthy and/or uneducated ones at that, a base that is getting smaller and smaller every day) one of the, if not THE, central pillar of their ideology, but I can't expect them to have time for rational solutions.
3) One of the other things that the Dems have been pushing for lately, which has gotten more traction than adding justices to the Supreme Court: getting rid of those very same voting restrictions that the Republican's majorities hinge on.

(September 1, 2021 at 8:02 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote: This tweet is great:

https://twitter.com/DoctorHenryCT/status...8321927172

Quote:Voter suppression laws are passed to intimidate people from voting for fear of being arrested. I hope a consequence of the Texas abortion law is that women decide that it's not worth having sex with men in Texas for fear of pregnancy and the intended consequences of the law.

Hell, if Illinois had a law like that, I'd probably decide it wasn't worth it to have sex with a woman. Then again, I can't say I've ever heard of a dakimakura getting pregnant.

(September 2, 2021 at 5:49 pm)Brian37 Wrote: The GOP are pro birth, not pro life. They think they are better than the Taliban. They certainly are acting like they want to be the Taliban.


Here's an English translation of a song written by Bertolt Brecht:




lyrics (A different translation, I admit):
Quote:“Please, doctor. I’ve missed my monthly...”
Why, this is simply great!
If I may put it bluntly
You’re raising our birthrate.
“Please, doctor, now we’re homeless...”
But you’ll have a bed somewhere
So best put your feet up, moan less
And force yourself to grin and bear.
You’ll make a simply splendid little mummy
Producing cannon-fodder from your tummy
That’s what your body’s for, and you know it,
what’s more
And it’s laid down by law
And now get this straight:
You’ll soon be a mother, just wait.
 
“But, doctor, no job or dwelling:
My man would find kids the last straw...”
No, rather a new compelling
Objective to work for.
“But, doctor...” Really, Frau Griebel
I ask myself what this means
You see, our state needs people
To operate our machines.
You’ll make a simply splendid little mummy
Producing factory fodder from your tummy
That’s what your body’s for,
and you know it, what’s more
And it’s laid down by law
And now get this straight:
You’ll soon be a mother, just wait.
 
“But, doctor, there’s such unemployment...”
I can’t follow what you say.
You’re all out for enjoyment
Then grumble at having to pay.
If we make a prohibition
You bet we’ve a purpose in mind.
Better recognize your condition
And once you’ve agreed to put yourselves in
our hands, you’ll find
You’re a simply splendid little mummy
Producing cannon fodder from your tummy
That’s what your body’s for,
and you know it, what’s more
And it’s laid down by law
And now get this straight:
You’ll soon be a mother,
just wait.

Frankly, this is the most altruistic interpretation of the Republicans' pro-life position that makes any sense to me: creating more live babies to turn into dead soldiers. And unless they decide to start putting things like "improve our educational system" and "eliminating poverty" at the forefront of their ideology, I'm calling bullshit on any other rationales they give.

The disturbing thing is that this could have been written in 2021 America instead of 1929 Germany and the only thing that'd change, except maybe the name Frau Griebel, is that they wouldn't even have a job as a factory drone to look forward to. Because, of all the fucking things that would change in 92 years, of course decimating an entire category of labour and laying waste to the economy of a good-sized portion of the country in the process would be the one. Fuck this timeline.
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.

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Messages In This Thread
Texas Law could circumvent Roe V. Wade - by Cecelia - August 31, 2021 at 9:34 pm
RE: Texas Law could circumvent Roe V. Wade - by Foxaèr - August 31, 2021 at 9:37 pm
RE: Texas Law could circumvent Roe V. Wade - by Mister Agenda - September 1, 2021 at 9:56 am
RE: Texas Law could circumvent Roe V. Wade - by LadyForCamus - September 1, 2021 at 11:59 am
RE: Texas Law could circumvent Roe V. Wade - by Cecelia - September 2, 2021 at 1:32 am
RE: Texas Law could circumvent Roe V. Wade - by Fake Messiah - September 2, 2021 at 1:35 am
RE: Texas Law could circumvent Roe V. Wade - by Ravenshire - August 31, 2021 at 9:51 pm
RE: Texas Law could circumvent Roe V. Wade - by Jehanne - August 31, 2021 at 10:01 pm
RE: Texas Law could circumvent Roe V. Wade - by HappySkeptic - September 1, 2021 at 9:41 am
RE: Texas Law could circumvent Roe V. Wade - by onlinebiker - September 1, 2021 at 10:46 am
RE: Texas Law could circumvent Roe V. Wade - by Angrboda - September 1, 2021 at 10:47 am
RE: Texas Law could circumvent Roe V. Wade - by HappySkeptic - September 1, 2021 at 11:08 am
RE: Texas Law could circumvent Roe V. Wade - by LostLocke - September 1, 2021 at 2:22 pm
RE: Texas Law could circumvent Roe V. Wade - by zebo-the-fat - September 1, 2021 at 10:53 am
RE: Texas Law could circumvent Roe V. Wade - by onlinebiker - September 1, 2021 at 11:03 am
RE: Texas Law could circumvent Roe V. Wade - by arewethereyet - September 1, 2021 at 12:26 pm
RE: Texas Law could circumvent Roe V. Wade - by brewer - September 1, 2021 at 12:53 pm
RE: Texas Law could circumvent Roe V. Wade - by onlinebiker - September 1, 2021 at 2:34 pm
RE: Texas Law could circumvent Roe V. Wade - by onlinebiker - September 1, 2021 at 4:39 pm
RE: Texas Law could circumvent Roe V. Wade - by Mermaid - September 1, 2021 at 12:51 pm
RE: Texas Law could circumvent Roe V. Wade - by HappySkeptic - September 1, 2021 at 4:24 pm
RE: Texas Law could circumvent Roe V. Wade - by GUBU - September 2, 2021 at 2:34 pm
RE: Texas Law could circumvent Roe V. Wade - by HappySkeptic - September 2, 2021 at 2:57 pm
RE: Texas Law could circumvent Roe V. Wade - by HappySkeptic - September 1, 2021 at 5:41 pm
RE: Texas Law could circumvent Roe V. Wade - by no one - September 1, 2021 at 7:04 pm
RE: Texas Law could circumvent Roe V. Wade - by onlinebiker - September 1, 2021 at 7:06 pm
RE: Texas Law could circumvent Roe V. Wade - by arewethereyet - September 1, 2021 at 7:10 pm
RE: Texas Law could circumvent Roe V. Wade - by HappySkeptic - September 1, 2021 at 7:12 pm
RE: Texas Law could circumvent Roe V. Wade - by arewethereyet - September 1, 2021 at 7:35 pm
RE: Texas Law could circumvent Roe V. Wade - by HappySkeptic - September 1, 2021 at 8:02 pm
RE: Texas Law could circumvent Roe V. Wade - by Brian37 - September 2, 2021 at 5:49 pm
RE: Texas Law could circumvent Roe V. Wade - by onlinebiker - September 2, 2021 at 6:18 pm
RE: Texas Law could circumvent Roe V. Wade - by Rev. Rye - September 2, 2021 at 8:43 pm
RE: Texas Law could circumvent Roe V. Wade - by Soberman921 - September 27, 2021 at 4:19 pm
RE: Texas Law could circumvent Roe V. Wade - by The Grand Nudger - September 28, 2021 at 12:10 pm
RE: Texas Law could circumvent Roe V. Wade - by Brian37 - September 28, 2021 at 12:33 pm
RE: Texas Law could circumvent Roe V. Wade - by Soberman921 - September 28, 2021 at 1:17 pm
RE: Texas Law could circumvent Roe V. Wade - by Soberman921 - September 28, 2021 at 6:22 pm
RE: Texas Law could circumvent Roe V. Wade - by GUBU - September 29, 2021 at 3:50 pm
RE: Texas Law could circumvent Roe V. Wade - by brewer - September 28, 2021 at 8:50 pm
RE: Texas Law could circumvent Roe V. Wade - by Fireball - September 28, 2021 at 10:07 pm
RE: Texas Law could circumvent Roe V. Wade - by brewer - September 28, 2021 at 10:26 pm
RE: Texas Law could circumvent Roe V. Wade - by Fireball - September 28, 2021 at 10:44 pm
RE: Texas Law could circumvent Roe V. Wade - by brewer - September 28, 2021 at 10:49 pm
RE: Texas Law could circumvent Roe V. Wade - by Foxaèr - September 28, 2021 at 10:49 pm

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