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Four years ago on the campaign trail, then-candidate Donald Trump pledged that if he were elected, only "pro-life" justices would get his nomination for a seat on the Supreme Court. As president, it's a promise he's delivered on twice already, and in the coming weeks, potentially once more.
Amy Coney Barrett, who is expected to be Mr. Trump's pick, meets the president's unprecedented anti-abortion rights litmus test. The federal judge has referred to abortion as "always immoral" and offers something a former top candidate, Barbara Lagoa, doesn't: A clear anti-abortion rights judicial record. During her three years on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, she has already ruled on two abortion-related cases, both times favoring restrictions on access to abortion.
"She is the perfect combination of brilliant jurist and a woman who brings the argument to the court that is potentially the contrary to the views of the sitting women justices," said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, an anti-abortion rights political group, in an emailed statement to CBS News.
Many believe that overturning Roe v. Wade the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide is no longer a hypothetical. The vacancy on the court follows the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who was not only liberal but an unequivocal supporter of abortion rights. Though Mr. Trump's two Supreme Court nominations Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh have been against abortion rights, both replaced conservative justices, effectively leaving the balance of the court nearly untouched.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/what-we-know-about-amy-coney-barretts-judicial-abortion-record/ar-BB19qIrs?li=BBnb7Kz
SamKnause
(13,107 posts)If she doesn't want an abortion, don't get one.
No one has the right to take that choice away from those who do.
I am so sick of these right to life fucks.
They don't give a damn about anything or anyone unless it is a fetus.
Solly Mack
(90,767 posts)TheBlackAdder
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You can't put a price on life, actually you can. Every extra birth, above the stasis drives up taxes.
Between education, childcare, medical costs, food supplements, those who can afford to get abortions will, which places the lion's share of births on lower-income families that will have a higher demand for public assistance.
All of those tax-saving fiscal conservatives will do is drive up their local and state property taxes and put their hand out for more federal socialism. Rick Perry tried this shit years ago and in less than one year over 7,000 extra births resulted. It was so bad, he abandoned it. Imagine the simple compounding of just 10,000 extra births each and every year at a cost of $320K per kid over 18 years.
Example: 10K kids per year for 18 years will add $3.2 billion to the state tax requirements.
Year 1) 10000 x $12,000/year (birthing, food, heat, utilities, medical costs, daycare, etc.) = $120,000,000 increased taxes
Year 2) Now 20,000 x $12,000/year = $240M
Year 3) Now 30,000 x 12,000/year = $360M
Year 4) $360M + (10000 x $18000/year) (as education starts to kick in) = $360M + $180M = $540M
Continue compounding $180M each year until the oldest kids become emancipated.
And the above example is in 2019 numbers, not adjusted for costs and inflation.
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bdamomma
(63,852 posts)want to millions of women in the streets??? cause we WILL be there. We do not want to go back.
Get ready don't mess with women's choice to choose.
TheBlackAdder
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Doug Collins (Text DOUG to 87123)
@CollinsforGA
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Sep 18
US Senate candidate, GA-Special
RIP to the more than 30 million innocent babies that have been murdered during the decades that Ruth Bader Ginsburg defended pro-abortion laws. With @realDonaldTrump
nominating a replacement that values human life, generations of unborn children have a chance to live.Link to tweet
So, if it were true, he's saying RBG saved "Fiscal Conservatives" from their own stupidity.
It costs over $320K to raise a child in taxes(local, state taxes & federal subsidies) over the first 18 years.
If there are births above the normal birth/death rate, that adds a tax burden.
30Million x $320K = $9.6 TRILLION
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Yes, by Dickhead Collins own admission, RGB saved taxpayers almost 10 TRILLION DOLLARS!
We all know Republicans place money above all else, including life. This is demonstrated by abandoning the baby after delivery, cutting housing, heat, food and medical support. Failure to provide daycare, clothing,etc. They claim it was the woman's decision and they should not pay for someone else's choice--yet they feed their choice onto others.
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