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Blue states will try to help women get abortions.
Red states will try to criminalize shipping abortion pills and try to prosecute out-of-state doctors who perform abortions on their residents.
This issue will certainly kill the filibuster, as both sides scramble to pass national legislation. It was never about “states’ rights” - no issue ever is. I laugh when pro-lifers claim that is their motivation.
And that is just the beginning.
If they come in to a state where it is illegal and abort a baby, then they have committed a crime and should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
Biden lied about several things again today (errr..his teleprompter writers lied that is):
-Nobody is or will or can attempt to limit interstate travel.
-Abortion is not and never was a constitutional right.
-Unsafe abortion numbers sky rocketed AFTER Roe v Wade- I was called to manage many of the botched abortions at regional clinics. I also know that there were very inadequate reporting protocols for culling out the incompetent abortionists who were consistently at the bottom of the OB/GYN skill barrel. Many entities didn’t want a complication reporting mechanism. I have quite extensive experience in this area. Like you with your own professional interactions on certain topics, I too have had these in this area on various levels. I don’t wish to be more specific here, but I assure you that I know what I’m talking about.
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The fear is being spread far and wide by the Left as there POTUS fails on all fronts, and this gives them something he can’t screw up with his base.
The motivation of Constitutionalists is states rights (and the Constitution). Granted, there is overlap between the two groups, since states rights is just how the pro-life goal is properly and constitutionally achieved within the construct of our Republic.
There are three positions one can reasonably take on abortion:
1) Abortion is a right. (Except that it constitutionally problematic...always has been. Even supporters of RvW realize that.)
2) Abortion is not a right, so states "rights" control. (That was the decision today, and the constitutionally correct one. BTW, "States Rights" is an awful term, although everyone uses it. It is really the powers that are not assigned to the Federal government by the Constitution which therefore remain with the States where they stood before the enactment of the Constitution. But, everyone says "States Rights," so what are ya gonna do?)
3) Life is a right, and states and federal government must try to protect that right. (I think this is much more of a reasonable position than option 1 above, but I'm not sure that will win the day either. As we've seen in Uvalde, our law enforcement really does not have an obligation to defend people's lives.)
I think for 1 or 3, you really need an Article V Amendment. 2 is the default position under our Constitution. People should try reading the Constitution.
I say all that as a Constitutionalist. Obviously as a person who thinks we should not target innocent people for killing, I also believe we should do whatever we can to stop abortion. Happily for you, and happily for me, my Church asks me to go about this in legal and peaceful ways.
Note that no organization has shown more respect for authority than pro-lifers. Think about it: They think a holocaust is occurring, and yet 99.99% of them are 100% peaceful. That is really amazing. There are only isolated instances of violence, even though violence in defense of others is generally accepted to be justifiable.
We are about to find out if people who support abortion rights are as peaceful as pro-lifers. This may indeed be just the beginning.
Got a good chuckle out of that one.
And I think you agree that a national ban is coming, should the GOP sweep into power.
Link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-abortion_violence
Very isolated incidents. Meanwhile, abortion kills hundreds of thousands in the US alone. That's a lot of deaths that go unanswered, because the people who oppose those deaths are peaceful, law abiding people. It's almost had to understand that a group of people could be so peaceful in the face of such violence.
And, no assassinations of justices. Let's see how you guys do.
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Few disagree that violence is justifiable to defend the life of an innocent baby.
And yet, millions of Pro-Lifers make the decision not to resort to violence in the face of hundreds of thousands of babies being killed, according to their beliefs.
A more pacifistic group you will not find.
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