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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSafe abortion States are not going to be safe
if SCOTUS overturns Roe v Wade and the Repugs take over the Government in 2024, expect an national ban on most abortions.
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Safe abortion States are not going to be safe (Original Post)
edhopper
Dec 2021
OP
Several states have laws that protect the right to access abortion, so such a move would set up
WhiskeyGrinder
Dec 2021
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WhiskeyGrinder
(22,395 posts)1. Several states have laws that protect the right to access abortion, so such a move would set up
another court fight. And Minnesota's state constitution has been found to protect the right to an abortion.
LiberatedUSA
(1,666 posts)2. There is a federal ban on marijuana, but states ignore that.
Blue states will do the same with abortion. Which of course both of those examples allow the other side to ignore federal gun bans based on the concept of monkey see, monkey do or if your state gets to ignore federal laws you dont like, ours can do the same with laws we dont like.
This is how we break up. This is how it happens. Both sides will ignore each others laws.
Alpeduez21
(1,755 posts)3. A national ban would go against his courts stance
That states should make their own decisions about human rights. You know, cause its not in the constitution
Tanuki
(14,920 posts)4. Even where abortion remains legal, misogynistic zealots will make it unsafe.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.history.com/.amp/this-day-in-history/an-anti-abortion-activist-goes-on-a-murder-spree
December 30, 1994:
"John Salvi III walks into two separate abortion clinics in Brookline, Massachusetts, and shoots workers with a rifle, killing two receptionists and wounding five other employees. He was captured the next day after firing 23 shots at a Norfolk, Virginia, medical clinic.
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In March 1996, Salvis trial jury rejected his insanity defense and convicted him of murder. After receiving two life sentences, he killed himself in prison in November 1996."...(more)
December 30, 1994:
"John Salvi III walks into two separate abortion clinics in Brookline, Massachusetts, and shoots workers with a rifle, killing two receptionists and wounding five other employees. He was captured the next day after firing 23 shots at a Norfolk, Virginia, medical clinic.
....
In March 1996, Salvis trial jury rejected his insanity defense and convicted him of murder. After receiving two life sentences, he killed himself in prison in November 1996."...(more)