Republicans Hope Their Assault on Democracy Will Stop a Post-Roe Backlash

[Celerity]

Conservatives on the Supreme Court have engineered a system that allows half the country’s population to be stripped of a fundamental constitutional right.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/12/supreme-court-roe-abortion-democracy/620882/









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[Walleye]

1. It's a major case of the dog catching the car

Oh, and this decision doesn’t affect everyone. It only affects women of childbearing age. Everybody else should stay out of it. They will celebrate overturning the precedent, but they will soon regret it

[Kath2]

2. Laws and restrictions will never end abortion.

They only end safe abortion.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. The people, if properly democraticly asked, do not want abortion banned. . . . nt

[Solly Mack]

4. K&R

[modrepub]

5. You'd Need Fewer Abortions With Unrestricted Birth Control

Preventing unwanted pregnancies via low cost or no cost contraceptives would help a lot (and has helped a lot). But the whole abortion thing IMHO is about repressing any discussion about sexuality. Funny how the folks opposed to abortion seem to have the hardest time acknowledging or discussing anything to do with sex (and how often do we find out the ones that are the most vocal have some serious sexual hang ups).

It's more about sexual repression than most folks will admit. The states who most want to abolish Roe also seem the most intent on suppressing all types of contraception or general discussions on sex. I'd love for the MSM to ask these folks about their opinions on premarital sex and contraception then follow up with if they've engaged in it or used contraception themselves. Probably the fastest way to shut politicians up is to ask them about their sex lives.

[crickets]

6. Bingo. nt