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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
Thu Dec 2, 2021, 03:50 PM
Dec 2021

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.
Thu Dec 2, 2021, 03:50 PM
Dec 2021

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 don’t like, ours can do the same with laws we don’t like”.

This is how we break up. This is how it happens. Both sides will ignore each other’s laws.

Alpeduez21

(1,755 posts)
3. A national ban would go against his courts stance
Thu Dec 2, 2021, 04:15 PM
Dec 2021

That states should make their own decisions about human rights. You know, cause it’s not in the constitution

Tanuki

(14,920 posts)
4. Even where abortion remains legal, misogynistic zealots will make it unsafe.
Thu Dec 2, 2021, 04:22 PM
Dec 2021
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, Salvi’s 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)
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