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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As I have raged and mourned this draft opinion in conversation with my early 20's self who could never have imagined this day two decades ago, one thought and feeling has hardened in my mind - anger at the "progressive" left.  Their extremely self-righteous Twitter warriorism has cost not only women, but POC and LGBTQ people the basis of their rights.  I truly hope they feel sitting out the election in 2016 was worth it. We have them and their ignorance of how politics actually works to blame for Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett.   So much for their "idealism" - they've handed the extreme right-wing the keys to kingdom.  When will they wake the f#$k up?  [/quote]

LOL, stop blaming the progressives. Look at the bill that Chuck Schumer put up for a vote. If they wrote it to protect abortion after 15 weeks, it would have drawn republican votes. But no, it was written to remove all restrictions on abortion - even for the purpose of choosing the child's sex. This is not at all what the US citizens want when they think about keeping abortions legal. [/quote]

So basically you wanted Democrats to put up something more restrictive than Roe, because you don’t support Roe.[/quote]

I don't think that's fair. A bill that guaranteed the right before 15 weeks, while allowing states to either restrict or allow abortion after 15 weeks, would have been a very reasonable and fair compromise, and would be in line with what most Americans say they want.

I don't think we'd have peeled off any Rs, that said. It still would have failed. But that is the right federal law to pass, if we can ever do it - and if the Sup Ct wouldn't strike it down as violating states' rights.[/quote]
Have people forgotten what the Roe ruling did? Not the Casey ruling that limited Roe, but Roe. The Senate put out a bill to codify Roe. 15 weeks has nothing to do with that and is currently unconstitutional under the Roe/Casey standard.[/quote]

Well guess what, Roe is dead. So there's really no point in wishing that we still had Roe. We don't have it. We can either move forward with something that has a snowball's chance of preserving some abortion rights for the most common types of abortion, or we can enter Gilead. I think we're heading toward the latter.[/quote]

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