“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled," Justice Alito writes in an initial majority draft

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Anonymous wrote:Such a lengthy opinion when all they have to say is “because the Catholic Church is against abortion.”

If they're going full Handmaid's Tale, the Catholic churches were destroyed and nuns and priests especially were killed. It isn't the Catholic church.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a Catholic born and raised and I have to say I’ve never understood the insistence on treating fetuses like people. When I miscarried at 14 weeks, did anyone try to baptize it? No. So I guess I have a dead baby in limbo? What about my mother’s first trimester miscarriage, or my grandmother’s, or my sister’s? At some point someone pointed out that hypocrisy to the church and they started doing these masses for the miscarried and aborted babies…..but when my grandmother miscarried in 1931, no one was holding masses for her “baby” (and she went to mass daily and had lots of family and friends who were priests). Same with my mom in 1966.

Exactly. The Catholics that are fighting for abortion bans will be judged harshly for the misery and death they will cause. Forced birth isn’t pro-life.

~ pro-choice Catholic

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Anonymous wrote:The SCOTUS leaked ruling simply says let the state legislators decide the issue of abortion. This is actually the correct position. Keep the feds out of it and let the people thru their elected officials decide. The blue states will keep abortions legal and the reds will limit it to 15 weeks or so.

The hysteria over this is … well … hysterical.

agreed, not that big of a deal.

I’m concerned states will restrict a woman’s ability to cross state lines.

Why?

Not PP but maybe because Missouri already passed a law barring leaving the state to get an abortion?

Or what Missouri? What are you going to do?

Let people sue you for $10,000, Texas style, https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/19/travel-abortion-law-missouri-00018539

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Anonymous wrote:The SCOTUS leaked ruling simply says let the state legislators decide the issue of abortion. This is actually the correct position. Keep the feds out of it and let the people thru their elected officials decide. The blue states will keep abortions legal and the reds will limit it to 15 weeks or so.

The hysteria over this is … well … hysterical.

So you willing to bet your life that republicans won’t pass federal ban at their first chance?

Regardless of what side you're on, that's the beauty of america. If you don't like the laws/taxes/refs your state passes, you can vote new reps in to change them or you can move. You don't want to live in a republican state that bans abortion, move or vote to change the law. No one is forcing you to live in a state with values/laws/tax structures you don't agree with.

And you feel the same way about gun control, right? And mask mandates, right? Just get up and move. Even if you don’t have a job to move to.

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Anonymous wrote:Even if we all agree that a fetus isn't a baby and a human person, there is no legal authority on the books anywhere to force any other human being to either sacrifice their life or to keep another person alive using their own body. That law does not exist anywhere. You are never forced to give blood or organs or to do anything with your own body to keep another human being alive outside of the womb. So why should a woman lose all bodily autonomy and before us to do something that we don't ask any other American citizen or human being to do?

Men register for Selective Service when they turn 18. If there is a draft, they are forced to sacrifice their bodies to protect others.

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Anonymous wrote:As every woman who enjoys sex and is good in bed knows: giving it gives us just as much power as refusing to

The unemployed, uneducated, divorced men who can't seem to find a woman to have their babies are about to not even get laid ever again- why would a woman even mercy f'ck them- its simply not worth the risk..

maybe they will compensate with more booze, more opiates and more time with their Dog...until they die

Prostitutes are gonna make a killing...they should be smart and raise their rates to $10K an hour

Conservative woman here. Why on EARTH are liberal women hating on, and planning to punish, ALL men? Clearly men are individual thinkers?

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Anonymous wrote:The SCOTUS leaked ruling simply says let the state legislators decide the issue of abortion. This is actually the correct position. Keep the feds out of it and let the people thru their elected officials decide. The blue states will keep abortions legal and the reds will limit it to 15 weeks or so.

The hysteria over this is … well … hysterical.

agreed, not that big of a deal.

I’m concerned states will restrict a woman’s ability to cross state lines.

Why?

Not PP but maybe because Missouri already passed a law barring leaving the state to get an abortion?

Or what Missouri? What are you going to do?

Let people sue you for $10,000, Texas style, https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/19/travel-abortion-law-missouri-00018539

For several months now, Texas woman have been forced out of state for procedures. Are they being sued? By whom? What is actually going on with this texas situation as far as these horrible enforcement mechanisms?

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Anonymous wrote:The SCOTUS leaked ruling simply says let the state legislators decide the issue of abortion. This is actually the correct position. Keep the feds out of it and let the people thru their elected officials decide. The blue states will keep abortions legal and the reds will limit it to 15 weeks or so.

The hysteria over this is … well … hysterical.

So you willing to bet your life that republicans won’t pass federal ban at their first chance?

Regardless of what side you're on, that's the beauty of america. If you don't like the laws/taxes/refs your state passes, you can vote new reps in to change them or you can move. You don't want to live in a republican state that bans abortion, move or vote to change the law. No one is forcing you to live in a state with values/laws/tax structures you don't agree with.

Since when did Republicans begin supporting representative democracy? Please answer that.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a Catholic born and raised and I have to say I’ve never understood the insistence on treating fetuses like people. When I miscarried at 14 weeks, did anyone try to baptize it? No. So I guess I have a dead baby in limbo? What about my mother’s first trimester miscarriage, or my grandmother’s, or my sister’s? At some point someone pointed out that hypocrisy to the church and they started doing these masses for the miscarried and aborted babies…..but when my grandmother miscarried in 1931, no one was holding masses for her “baby” (and she went to mass daily and had lots of family and friends who were priests). Same with my mom in 1966.

Exactly. The Catholics that are fighting for abortion bans will be judged harshly for the misery and death they will cause. Forced birth isn’t pro-life.

~ pro-choice Catholic

Following up on this because people need to understand this about Catholics. Advocating for laws that criminalize abortion is not required. If you morally oppose abortion, don’t have one. You’ll be fine with God.

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Anonymous wrote:In some face, it is your religious belief to follow medical advice such as in Orthodox Judaism. There are cases where due to medical reasons a woman is advised to get an abortion and that is sanctioned by her religion. So I could see some cases being brought before the court having to do with freedom of religion in that respect

Freedom of religion will not trump the right to life.

Also, religion-neutral laws that apply to everyone equally can't typically be challenged on First Amendment grounds. Your religion may believe in animal sacrifice, for example, but government can ban the killing of animals outside of a licensed slaughterhouse.

Yeah that’s is not true. If it was a religious practice the government would have a hard time.

So, if your religion believes in human sacrifice, the murder laws don't apply to its practitioners? If you believe in ritualized prostitution, the vice squad can't shut down your brothel?

The 1st Amendment forbids government from discriminating against people based on religion. It in no way requires government to let you use your religion to opt out of neutrally applied non-discriminatory laws.

Dear LORD, education is definitely failing our youth. You are correct, PP, and this is a very clear explanation.

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Anonymous wrote:Even if we all agree that a fetus isn't a baby and a human person, there is no legal authority on the books anywhere to force any other human being to either sacrifice their life or to keep another person alive using their own body. That law does not exist anywhere. You are never forced to give blood or organs or to do anything with your own body to keep another human being alive outside of the womb. So why should a woman lose all bodily autonomy and before us to do something that we don't ask any other American citizen or human being to do?

Men register for Selective Service when they turn 18. If there is a draft, they are forced to sacrifice their bodies to protect others.

Except they can declare themselves to be conscientious objectors. Or they can become medics. Or they can find a doctor to say they have bone spurs.

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Anonymous wrote:Even if we all agree that a fetus isn't a baby and a human person, there is no legal authority on the books anywhere to force any other human being to either sacrifice their life or to keep another person alive using their own body. That law does not exist anywhere. You are never forced to give blood or organs or to do anything with your own body to keep another human being alive outside of the womb. So why should a woman lose all bodily autonomy and before us to do something that we don't ask any other American citizen or human being to do?

Men register for Selective Service when they turn 18. If there is a draft, they are forced to sacrifice their bodies to protect others.

Ok so have woman register as well when they turn 18. Interfering with their reproductive decisions has nothing to do with requiring woman to register for selective service

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Anonymous wrote:The SCOTUS leaked ruling simply says let the state legislators decide the issue of abortion. This is actually the correct position. Keep the feds out of it and let the people thru their elected officials decide. The blue states will keep abortions legal and the reds will limit it to 15 weeks or so.

The hysteria over this is … well … hysterical.

So you willing to bet your life that republicans won’t pass federal ban at their first chance?

Regardless of what side you're on, that's the beauty of america. If you don't like the laws/taxes/refs your state passes, you can vote new reps in to change them or you can move. You don't want to live in a republican state that bans abortion, move or vote to change the law. No one is forcing you to live in a state with values/laws/tax structures you don't agree with.

Since when did Republicans begin supporting representative democracy? Please answer that.

DP. The PP seems to forget what the party of Lincoln actually believed. It’s been true for some time now that certain things cannot be left to the states.

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Anonymous wrote:Even if we all agree that a fetus isn't a baby and a human person, there is no legal authority on the books anywhere to force any other human being to either sacrifice their life or to keep another person alive using their own body. That law does not exist anywhere. You are never forced to give blood or organs or to do anything with your own body to keep another human being alive outside of the womb. So why should a woman lose all bodily autonomy and before us to do something that we don't ask any other American citizen or human being to do?

Men register for Selective Service when they turn 18. If there is a draft, they are forced to sacrifice their bodies to protect others.

Except they can declare themselves to be conscientious objectors. Or they can become medics. Or they can find a doctor to say they have bone spurs.

Abortion bans are impossible to analogize, because it is a unique case under the law. Which means it’s clearly wrong. I can’t think of anything close. I’ve asked a few times for someone to point to a single medical procedure that the government has banned, other than abortion. The only justification for getting involved in health care decisions is public safety. Abortion bans have the opposite effect.

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Anonymous wrote:Even if we all agree that a fetus isn't a baby and a human person, there is no legal authority on the books anywhere to force any other human being to either sacrifice their life or to keep another person alive using their own body. That law does not exist anywhere. You are never forced to give blood or organs or to do anything with your own body to keep another human being alive outside of the womb. So why should a woman lose all bodily autonomy and before us to do something that we don't ask any other American citizen or human being to do?

Men register for Selective Service when they turn 18. If there is a draft, they are forced to sacrifice their bodies to protect others.

Except they can declare themselves to be conscientious objectors. Or they can become medics. Or they can find a doctor to say they have bone spurs.

So if I have bone spurs I can have an abortion?