• @DirkMcCallahan
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    Conservatives did this. Trump was the tool they used, but this would have happened under Jeb! or any other Republican president as well.

    Don’t let the rest of the party off the hook. They all own this.

  • @_bcron_
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    Amber Thurmond should still be alive. And there are a lot of people who should still be alive, and I certainly wish that she was. - JD Vance at the debate

    We’ve got to do so much better of a job at earning the American People’s trust back on this issue where they frankly just don’t trust us. - Also JD Vance at the debate

    Not hard to connect these dots JD

  • @anticolonialist
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    -445 hours ago

    Democrats did this by refusing to codify decades ago.

    • @Olgratin_Magmatoe
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      “The guy who did the arson isn’t to blame, it’s the firefighters for getting there too late”

    • @[email protected]
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      You really do make a habit of being on the bottom with your terrible takes don’t you

    • @almar_quigley
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      345 hours ago

      I agree both major parties had a hand in this directly or indirectly. But only one has any chance of changing this for the better.

      • @anticolonialist
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        Which one, the one that directly revoked women’s rights or the one that did nothing to prevent it from happening?

    • @[email protected]
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      174 hours ago

      As if these zealots wouldn’t have ruled it unconstitutional or slowly weakend it with a series of cases anyway. See recent decisions gutting Voting Rights Act, weakening the Clean Water Act, Campaign Reform Act of 2002, Dodd-Frank and other federal laws.

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        Look, republicans suck ass, it’s true. But if Dems had codified Roe into law either time they had the supermajority (two chances in the last 20 years), then the corrupt SC wouldn’t have been able to do jack shit. If dems had any integrity, they would shoulder a significant amount of the blame for this issue, because they had their chance and deemed it “not a priority.”

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          Sure, Dems absolutely should have codified it. However, a federal law protecting abortion rights as health care against the religious freedom of a regional Catholic hospital’s beliefs not to save a mother’s life with an abortion would be the test case and I’m pretty sure I know how 5 of the Justices would vote. This SCOTUS know they have unchecked power and are no longer afraid to wield it.

          • @[email protected]
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            Would be interesting to see that play out fully. Here’s hoping we get the chance to do so in the next few years. Its so heartbreaking that so many women are suffering/dying because of these regressive policy positions.

            • @Ensign_Crab
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              42 hours ago

              I’ll never, ever forget the very first thing Democrats did when Republicans successfully overturned Roe.

              They sent out a mass text asking for $15 donations because of what had just happened.

              They had that shit ready to go immediately. Maybe if they had put a fraction of that preparation into having legislation ready to go, they wouldn’t have wasted their opportunities to protect Americans’ rights.

              But at least they did for the only thing that matters. Fundraising.

              • @anticolonialist
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                They had that text waiting to be sent for years. The story was hot off the press when I got mine begging for money

      • @anticolonialist
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        So what I’m hearing is if Democrats had codified it, Republicans would have come along and got it struck down. But to fix the problem we need to elect more Democrats to get it codified?

        No one else sees the circular reasoning behind this?

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          And if we have another 2016, Trump can appoint Thomas and Alito’s successors, and maybe some more, with more Federalist Society hacks.