A Kentucky woman Friday filed an emergency class-action lawsuit, asking a Jefferson County judge to allow her to terminate her pregnancy. It’s the first lawsuit of its kind in Kentucky since the state banned nearly all abortions in 2022 and one of the only times nationwide since before Roe v. Wade in 1973 that an adult woman has asked a court to intervene on her behalf and allow her to get an abortion.

  • @chitak166
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    1 year ago

    I mean, being the lesser-evil doesn’t make you good or free from criticism. Lol.

    Maybe dems should elect better reps! Then we wouldn’t be in this situation.

      • @chitak166
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        -141 year ago

        Perhaps democrats should start running better candidates?

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          161 year ago

          Perhaps all the appallingly egregious gerrymandering that ensures democrats can’t win in many areas should be addressed?

          Democrats could run Jesus himself and lose in many places.

          • @chitak166
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            -61 year ago

            Absolutely, but gerrymandering isn’t the only issue.

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              Definitely not. But we have to recognise which issues supersede others, and which must be fixed before it’s even physically possible to address the other things.

              It’s like fretting over the train being on schedule before the tracks have been laid. Yes, many things need fixing and several are dire, but without the tracks, shouting at the conductor to make the train go faster is futile.

        • @assassin_aragorn
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          61 year ago

          There’s two conflicting viewpoints here. You need as many pro choice Democrats elected as possible to codify abortion rights.

          But that doesn’t happen in just one election cycle. If you punish Democrats for not fixing it immediately, you’ll never build up the necessary numbers. And that’s exactly what happened. Democrats got a huge boost in 2008 that was enough to advance things somewhat. Voters stayed home in 2010 because they didn’t like the limited improvements, and in doing so, handed Republicans the majority and prevented anything more than the limited improvements.

          Even Roe wasn’t repealed overnight. It was a multi decade campaign. The left needs to play just as much of a long game to get what we want. There’ll be absolutely no progress if we keep getting to get one large push to the left in 2 years, versus several smaller pushes to the left over 10 years to get to the same point.