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lastlib

(23,266 posts)
Fri May 20, 2022, 12:35 PM May 2022

A strategy Dems need to put to action on abortion:

I mentioned this a few days ago in a sub-post on abortion actions, and thought it was worth its own post.

Slide into some bill that will pass a provision making a crime to intercept any internet communication or data with intention to use it to interfere with a woman's right to reproductive health. I'm not lawyer enough to write it all out, but this is the gist of the idea. Criminalizing the use of data crossing the internet to use against any woman or abortion provider in one of those state bounty-hunting cases. This could largely nullify those provisions in the state laws. (Granted, the kind of people who would murder abortion doctors wouldn't be deterred from stealing a little online data, but it could deter the vast majority of the hunters, and at least give a basis for prosecuting them.) Small steps to take. Clearly, this is within Congress' commerce power.

If we lose women's rights, we may have to retake them a little bit at a time.

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A strategy Dems need to put to action on abortion: (Original Post) lastlib May 2022 OP
Wouldn't it be easier for Congress to codify the use of all contraception as suggested by in2herbs May 2022 #1
That's an option, but another subject, really. lastlib May 2022 #2

in2herbs

(2,947 posts)
1. Wouldn't it be easier for Congress to codify the use of all contraception as suggested by
Fri May 20, 2022, 12:38 PM
May 2022

Al Franken? Why are Ds in Congress ignoring this option?

lastlib

(23,266 posts)
2. That's an option, but another subject, really.
Fri May 20, 2022, 01:37 PM
May 2022

My suggestion is aimed at the Texas-style vigilante-enforcement laws. With a foundation in the federal commerce power, it's likely to withstand judicial scrutiny.

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