Texas woman Kate Cox appeared remotely for a hearing in her lawsuit against the state. She asked for an abortion to preserve her fertility.
  • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
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    9 måneder siden

    Another stunning example of personal freedom from The Greatest Country on Earth (Trade mark. Not to be used in comparison to any other nation)

    • Drusas@kbin.social
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      9 måneder siden

      Let’s not pretend this is the whole country. States like mine are taking in people who need abortions because of these fascist states.

      • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
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        9 måneder siden

        Let’s not pretend this is the whole country.

        You are one federal election away from a nationwide ban.

        • Facebones@reddthat.com
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          9 måneder siden

          This. Everyone is celebrating abortion not being a winning issue for them like it’s a tide change, and not just a sign to back off and point at some trans dude in times square to immediately have all those voters swarm back - at which point they ban abortion anyway.

    • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
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      9 måneder siden

      I agree but the dems had the numbers to pass abortion into law half a dozen times since roe v wade but have never done it.

      What are the odds they will do it this time?

      Are the even campaigning that they will?

      • LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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        9 måneder siden

        The odds are pretty high, actually.

        Back then, most people didn’t consider it an urgent issue because most people considered it settled law and didn’t really believe it would be overturned. Most people didn’t really consider that the Supreme Court would be compromised to the degree it has.

        That perception has changed dramatically, and it’s proven to be a winning issue for Dems. As the next voting cycle ramps up, it will likely be a big campaign point. In order to have any chance at all, though, Dems must gain a solid majority in Congress.

      • BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social
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        9 måneder siden

        When exactly was there a pro-choice majority in Congress? It wasn’t all that long ago that abortion wasn’t as polarizing in its partisanship, and so there were quite a lot of anti-abortion Democrats from the south, just as there were a handful of pro-choice Republicans.

        If you’re referring to the time when Obamacare was passed, several of those Democrat Senators were anti-abortion.

        • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
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          9 måneder siden

          When exactly was there a pro-choice majority in Congress?

          Are the dems not pro-choice? They have had the majority in both houses in these congresses since roe v wade.

          The 95, 96, 100, 101 ,102,103, 111

  • Mossheart@lemmy.ca
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    9 måneder siden

    I just started watching the Handmaid’s Take for the first time tonight. JFC, it’s supposed to be fiction, not a blueprint.

  • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    9 måneder siden

    Fucking insanity. Nobody but this woman and her fucking doctor should even know about this shit. Unbelievable.

    • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee
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      9 måneder siden

      That was what Roe was actually about, the right to medical privacy and patient doctor sovereignty

    • PLAVAT🧿S@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      9 måneder siden

      I said it in another post but these are the actual Death Panels Sarah Palin ‘fabricated’ (since hers was a huge lie). The government is actually standing between a person who needs care and their doctor.

    • Chakravanti@sh.itjust.works
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      9 måneder siden

      For every murder the republican politicians are committing…eh…I’ll leave it at that. I can’t talk about the club.

  • Pratai@lemmy.ca
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    9 måneder siden

    So someone explain to me how the governing body of Texas aren’t a bunch of fucking cowards.

    I’d love to hear it.

  • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
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    9 måneder siden

    “Temporarily”. Because their discussions are more important than any human being’s immediate health emergency.

    At this point, it is perfectly reasonable to view conservatives as subhuman. They are incapable of displaying even a tiny hint of humanity. Until there is evidence that they see others as humans, they should be offered no such respect in turn. They are simply a plague of oppression and death.

    • tilgare@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      9 måneder siden

      Dehumanization is how Hitler justified and sold his actions. I would recommend against that. The other side is human just the same as you, no matter how monstrous they act.

        • Hupf@feddit.de
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          9 måneder siden

          The whole ingroup vs outgroup aspect has become way too dominant in what used to be politics.

          • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            9 måneder siden

            If you think this is anything new, you should really look into fascism in the early 20th century.

            I’m not being flippant, you should really research it. You may be surprised to find striking similarities.

        • Facebones@reddthat.com
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          9 måneder siden

          2023 centrists out here acting like “leftists wanting access to healthcare and fair wages, and righties working to kill people are equally bad” isn’t it’s own special kind of stupid tribe 😂