Dana Nessel is Michigan's attorney general.
The three Trumpublican candidates running for AG in Michigan want the states to decide if birth control should be outlawed. Just read what they said in their answers to the question on whether or not birth control should be outlawed:
The full report is here in Mother Jones:
The final question from the audience at Friday night’s debate for the Republican candidates for Michigan attorney general was as straightforward as it gets: “How do each of you stand on Griswold v. Connecticut?”
Griswold was the 1965 Supreme Court decision that struck down Connecticut’s ban on the sale of contraception. The landmark decision, a rare opinion to invoke the Third Amendment, articulated a “right to privacy” that would go on to be cited in Roe v. Wade.
With the Supreme Court poised to strike down or at least thoroughly gut Roe, it was notable to see a conservative activist ask three men who oppose it, and who are aspiring to be the chief law enforcement officer of a state that still has an abortion ban on its books, what they think of the famous contraception case. But that assumed that all the candidates even knew what Griswold was.
No one immediately answered, but Tom Leonard, a former state speaker of the house who lost in 2018 to the current incumbent, Democrat Dana Nessell, eventually spoke up—to ask for clarification.
“Remind me,” said Leonard, who was endorsed in December by Right to Life of Michigan.
“Griswold v. Connecticut—do you know the case?” a moderator asked.
“Which—give me a quick—” Leonard said.
The voter explained what it was. “Yeah, okay, I just, and I wanted clarification,” Leonard said.
“This case, much like Roe v. Wade, I believe was wrongly decided, because it was an issue that trampled states’ rights and it was an issue that should have been left up to the states.”
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Back to the old states right arguments. As if the state should have a right to trample on individual rights that pose no harm or threat to society. This is nothing more than the desire for state control over people's lives based on reified bs religious beliefs.
They live in their own universe, free of logic, empathy and formerly human trait. Here in
Idaho, where a large chunk of taxes are spent suing and losing to the Federal government, they would return us to the Dark Ages. For example:
https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/politics-government/2022-02-15/lt-gov-mcgeachin-on-fauci-ill-lock-him-up
They packed the North Idaho college with far right neanderthals and quickly lost their
accredidation. Beautiful state-crazy place.
These conservative idiots have been with us for a very long time. They have plenty of support and at times have had the numbers to make law. The counter is for all rational Americans to speak out and vote.
Anonymous "This is nothing more than the desire for state control over people's lives based on reified bs religious beliefs."
This is the desire for RELIGIOUS control over people's lives. The Roman Catholic Church and some fundamentalist Protestant religions, and maybe some other religions do not condone birth control for family planning. Various state and federal lawmakers and even Supreme Court Justices (Amy Coney Barrett, q.v.,) believe using contraceptives for family planning is "unnatural." That's a RELIGIOUS belief and that religious belief has no business being foisted upon Americans who are not part of that religion.
You can bet that these puritanical half-wits are well versed in the perverted arts to the point that they can't pass a pet shop without all the hamsters inside committing mass suicide rather than end up in an unseemly and horrifying fleshy play tunnel. Those are the types that like to make harsh laws on everyone else. The only way to beat them is by voting for every election no matter if it's town council or president. They must be stopped.
BB-Idaho
Glad to see you here! You've been away for a while.
Many religionists strongly believe their faith is the one true faith and everyone must bend to its rules. Former Secy. of State, Mike Pompeo has said in speeches that this nation MUST BE a nation under ONE GOD. These are the same folks who screamed about Sharia Law! But see nothing unAmerican in wanting our country to be under ONE GOD.
My question is: Whose god?
No Name Needed
The people who run around screaming about losing their "rights" because of mask mandates are the same people who support a political party full of people who want to impose religious dogma on our secular nation.
The Woman that was trampled by the Trudeau Regime’s police on Horseback.
She is an Indigenous elder
Does Trudeau think she is a racist with “unacceptable views”?
To Ben
A woman at the heart of a widely spread and false report of a trampling death amid the police operation to clear "Freedom Convoy" protesters from Ottawa streets Friday is very much alive, and Ottawa police say it's an example of the misinformation that has been spread throughout the three-week demonstration
I normally delete this sort of troll comment because it's so stupidly wrong and the troll who left it here must be a moron because this report was easily researched and found FALSE!
I posted it in case "Ben" comes back, so the "Ben" troll can see the fool it made of itself!
@Shaw - Reified Religious beliefs that are largy supported by religious conservatives that wish to pass laws enforcing their Christian/Jewish belief in a Supreme All Knowing god.
(Off topic)
My blog has basically been inactive since 2010. Yet, I go back to it occasionally to re-read some of my posts. I was surprised to recently see a comment posted in late January from something named Suzanne. It went on for multiple paragraphs. I didn't read it but I did see the words "liberals" and "Biden" sprinkled throughout. This on a blog that overwhelming is about animals and my cats, in particular. The delete button is such a wonderful thing!
possumlady "Suzanne" often leaves long-winded spam at my blog. This has increased over the last few months because the blog the "Suzanne" troll usually posts at(Who's Your Daddy) has been down since December of last year, so that "Suzanne" troll has nowhere to leave its droppings.
As soon as I see the name "Suzanne" in my "comment moderation," I push the DELETE button without reading any of its drivel.
Anonymous "@Shaw - Reified Religious beliefs that are largy supported by religious conservatives that wish to pass laws enforcing their Christian/Jewish belief in a Supreme All Knowing god."
Why can't those folks be content with following their religious beliefs among themselves? Why do they think non-believers and other religions share their beliefs?
PS As for placing "Judeo-Christian" in front of their wish to return America to a "Judeo-Christian ethos, they apparently don't know that the Jewish religion does not prohibit abortion:
"Jewish tradition has a distinctly different reading of the same texts. While conservative Christians use the Bible to argue that a fetus represents a human life, which makes abortion murder, Jews don’t believe that fetuses have souls and, therefore, terminating a pregnancy is no crime." --SOURCE
Also, in Israel, where universal health care exists, abortions are legal and often they are provided at no cost.
And some beleve America is exceptional. Not so.
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