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Aarati Subramaniam
#SCOTUS
Okay, John Cornyn, I'll bite (since i saw his follow up tweet where he contextualized this). You are trying to make the point that sometimes overturning precedent is a good thing. But here's the difference: When Brown overturned Plessy, it expanded rights for citizens, where previously they had been denied. When Dobbs overturned Roe, it diminished fifty years of healthcare rights...
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One could argue this is an expansion of rights to a fetus. I've not read Dobbs, but my understanding is that the underpinning rationale is limited to no constitutional right to an abortion, not whether the fetus should have rights to be balanced against the pregnant woman's. Do you know if this is correct?
AS
correct. They did not apply a balancing test, and they legally cannot as personhood has yet to established for fetuses, but I'm sure that's next.
@Jezibaba
But he's secretly arguing for a Christian-morality position while arguing a Constitutional position.
It's disingenuous. We're hammering him on the wrong topic.
Find me a single anti-abortion supporter that is not religious (especially extreme "Christian") and I'll shut up.
@jurban not that I want you to shut up but I know quite a few up here in Alaska who are anti-abortion and non-religious. I cannot for the life of me figure out why they are anti-abortion. I've had a few go arounds with them, couldn't sway, couldn't understand, no decent communication. Now that's highly anecdotal so it's definitely not a decent sample size.
@jurban but I agree with you
@Jezibaba theres always a cost when others just do what they will do.
the judges are starting to feel the heat, the states and federal are starting to feel the heat
@Horrrflmlvr it's time.
@Jezibaba got a question, would law say anything about people who resist the abortion ban in any way?
@Horrrflmlvr Law is helping set up the resistance. I also know they are setting up legal help for women caught behind the wall. Let me see what else I can find out.
(not to mention the many other sectors it will affect like foster care, criminal justice, domestic and other violent crime statistics).
In general, we applaud busting precedent when it means giving disenfranchised people their rights. And if you are so obtuse to not know the difference between the two examples above, or more realistically, you just don't care, then you have no business being in the Senate.
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