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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It will be interesting to see how this plays politically.  I don’t see how it is positive for Rs.  Might be neutral or might be really bad for them.

The Rs have successfully been using the potential to flip the court to overturn Roe to get out the base for decades.  The Democrats haven’t been able to use it so effectively because Roe has been taken as a given by most voters.  That is, if you were pro-choice, you could ignore the pro-life views of a republican you might vote for because he couldn’t act on them anyway.  That will no longer be true.  A vote for a republican will be a vote for abortion bans.[/quote]

+1.  The GOP wants the midterms to be all about inflation and the economy.  Overturning Roe will give Democrats a big chance to change the narrative.  Will they be able to do it?[/quote]
Again, it hugely depends on the “mainstream” media. They’re the ones still framing this to the advantage of the GOP, still pretending this won’t be that bad.

The GOP is trying to install some sort of theocracy-oligarchy-fascist dictatorship whatever government. I don’t think any faction particularly cares which horrible thing works out, they just hate democracy and equal rights. They hate every thing that America stands for, and the media is still farting around pretending that it’s just a fun horse race. I am beyond disgusted. [/quote]

Maybe, but I think this may be breaking through.  I'm an in-house lawyer.  Today, three women separately came into my office completely unprompted.  Each said they thought Roe was settled law and hadn't the justices promised that when they got confirmed, and how was this possible.  Most people on the pro-choice side have been operating with the assumption that their votes don't actually affect the abortion issue.  That it was basically off-limits for politicians, so they were free to vote for who they wanted to based on other issues like the economy, taxes, welfare, immigration, etc.  No one will be able to believe that any more.  [/quote]

Lol, hope you educated on the fact that Roe was already largely overturned by Casey, and both are regarded as terrible decisions. Remind the women that legal slavery was at one point settled law in the US. [/quote]

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