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Beschloss really went after the court (Original Post) BootinUp Jun 2022 OP
Yes, it was a thing of beauty. Coventina Jun 2022 #1
All this fuss because the Catholic Church needs priests Deminpenn Jun 2022 #2
No. It's about racist white evangelicals afraid of being in the minority. LonePirate Jun 2022 #3
The driver behind banning abortions is Deminpenn Jun 2022 #4
+1, uponit7771 Jun 2022 #5

Deminpenn

(15,286 posts)
2. All this fuss because the Catholic Church needs priests
Sat Jun 25, 2022, 12:54 AM
Jun 2022

Think abou it. Priests can't marry and therefore do not produce off-spring who could potentially become priests themselves. The only way to get more priests is to convince parishoners, by way of church doctrine, to have kids from which new priests can be recruited.

LonePirate

(13,426 posts)
3. No. It's about racist white evangelicals afraid of being in the minority.
Sat Jun 25, 2022, 01:12 AM
Jun 2022

Today's decision has everything to do with the right's attempt to keep the white race in the majority in this country.

Deminpenn

(15,286 posts)
4. The driver behind banning abortions is
Sat Jun 25, 2022, 07:24 AM
Jun 2022

the catholic church. Not sure about Thomas, but 4 of the 6 who voted to overturn Roe are catholic and Gorsuch was raised as a catholic. There is no doubt Alito's stance on abortion and other cultural issues matches that of the most conservative catholics and he wrote the opinon.

There are fewer than 1M abortions a year in the US and that number has been declining after peaking 30 years ago. A large percent, if not majority, of abortions are sought by minority women meaning there wouldn't be enough non-minority babies to have any real impact on white population.

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