Reported in the Austin, Texas, Statesman:
Abbott said Wednesday that Texas would consider challenging a 1982 Supreme Court decision requiring states to offer free public education to all children, including those of undocumented immigrants.
What's happening in the red state of Louisiana?
BREAKING: Louisiana Republicans just advanced a bill banning abortion from the moment an egg is fertilized and prosecuting women for murder if they don’t comply.
The bill actually criminalizes in vitro fertilization, miscarriages, and some forms of birth control.
Louisiana has consistently ranked near the bottom, at 50, among the best states to live in, in the U.S. News and World Report survey, which explored eight categories ranging from the economy to education.
From an OB-GYN nurse: "Ectopic Pregnancies, when they rupture the fallopian tube, hemorrhage 50% of a woman's blood in 3-5 minutes. 7-10 minutes & the woman is dead. There are 110,000 per year. Ultrasound finds them. Abortion is the only prevention."
So, there you go. Louisiana will kill the woman should she have the misfortune to have an ectopic pregnancy and try to save her life. (PS. ectopic pregnancies are not that rare, I had two dear friends who almost died from having one.)
Add this atrocity to their list.
It's a New World Inquisition! Soon they'll be burning women at the stake!
Not even third world countries are doing this. But it's happening in the Land of the Free!
Muslim teachings, for example, do not say that human life begins at conception. Abortion is permitted until the 17th week of pregnancy, and even later if there are medical issues. The Taliban, despite its sexism & other issues, still allows women to have abortions. But it's happening in the Land of the Free!
The people who are eagerly introducing these bills have no idea of what they are doing. IMO, it's not about saving "babies," it's about punishing women. This madness has to stop.
Meanwhile, in Wisconsin, a U.S. Senator quacks out another moronic conspiracy theory. Vote these nitwits out of office!:
In a video interview published on the right-wing social media platform Rumble, Sen. Ron Johnson said it “may be true” that vaccines against COVID-19 cause AIDS.
Johnson was being interviewed by anti-vaccine lawyer Todd Callender, who alleged that the shots induce AIDS and that the FDA knew so when the vaccines were approved for emergency use.
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I really don't think we can call ourselves the 'Land of The Free' with these medieval, draconian laws repressing our people. What they want is disgusting and, if we don't all stand up together and fight it, will certainly lead to a world of misery and suffering for many millions of our people.
We must soon spark a movement to change this nation's name to... The Nation Who Threw Liberty and Civil Rights Into the Toilet.
I'm almost ashamed to admidt I'm an American anymore. At one time we were a beacon for the rest of the world. NO MORE!
Stupid people have become empowered to force their stupidity on the non-stupid.
Ron Johnson said it “may be true” that vaccines against COVID-19 cause AIDS
That is, a vaccine against one disease can bring another disease which is caused by an entirely different virus. This is roughly equivalent to saying that calling an exterminator to get rid of ants in your house will magically cause it to be infested with penguins.
Still, that's what happens when you get your ideas about medicine from politicians and lawyers instead of from doctors and scientists.
I can't even work up much surprise any more for the revelation that fundamentalists / Republicans in Louisiana are less liberal (in one area, at least) than the Taliban.
Six ultra-conservative Catholic members of the current Supreme Court don't like settled law on abortion.
The Jewish faith allows abortion; the Hindu faith allows abortion (If the mother's life is at risk, Hinduism permits abortion); many Protestant sects allow abortion; the Muslim faith allows abortion; Shinto and Buddhism take no stand on abortion, so it's neither approved nor disapproved.
a number of religious groups, including the United Church of Christ, the Unitarian Universalist Association and the two largest American Jewish movements – Reform and Conservative Judaism – favor a woman’s right to have an abortion with few or no exceptions.
Many of the nation’s largest mainline Protestant denominations – including the Episcopal Church, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and the Methodists – also support abortion rights, although several of these churches temper this support with the call for some limits on when a woman can terminate her pregnancy. For instance, while the Episcopal Church opposes statutory limits on abortion, it teaches that “it should be used only in extreme situations.”
Why should a minority of Christians decide to make abortion illegal for all these other faiths in America?
The ultra-conservative Catholic stand on abortion is NOT embraced by a majority of other religions.
Why should they have the final say on this issue?
Infidel 753
Ron Johnson is a stupid person's idea of a smart person.
The results of a recent Pew Research poll, published May l6, 2022, are as follows:
Abortion should be:
Illegal in all cases; no exceptions 8%
Illegal in most cases, with some exceptions 37%
Legal in most cases, with some restrictions 38%
Legal in all cases 19%
Legal but some abortions against the law 6%
anonymous @ 10:09 AM, Infidel753, Mike, RN, BluebullAmerica,
After all of the heated rhetoric and gnashing of teeth, it all boils down to whether we want secularly determined liberties or "natural law" theocratically dictated ones.
IMO, there are no good outcomes in a society run by radical theocrats. Afghanistan comes to mind.
Even in Saudi Arabia, where women have been treated like 2nd class citizens) (the laws are changing), abortion is legal in cases of risk to a woman's life, fetal impairment, or to protect her physical and mental health.
A friend sent me this today:
"Justice Alioto -- the guy who joined a conservative group while in college at Princeton to try to prevent and/or reduce admissions to women. Can you say, MISOGYNY?
The rate of abortions have been falling over the last several years. The most recent statistic I saw was an 18% drop.
The evangelical right is making a mountain out of a molehill with their screeching culture war. You want fewer abortions, then promote better sex education classes and lower the cost of and broaden access to birth control and the day after pill. And if you don't want an abortion, don't have one.
The fact is a small group of religious zealots are trying to force their views on a majority of Americans who do not agree with them. The right-wing Supreme Court is pursuing a radical, political agenda to strip women of their right to privacy and reproductive freedom in a draconian way they do not and have never imposed on men. It's wrong!
Yet what is more troubling still, this rogue, right-wing conservative RELIGIOUS majority has the audacity to insist in public they are not partisan hacks even as they lay the groundwork for states to pass trigger laws that will further endanger women's constitutional freedoms and other freedoms that stem from the same tree.
Shame on this rogue and dishonest court! The stench is indeed overwhelming as its illegitimacy grows."
When you hand government the power to circumscribe personal behavior, don't surprised when your behavior becomes a target.
Too bad the founders didn't put a right to an abortion in the constitution, like they did the right to bear arms. Tough luck for you, pilgrim.
So John Wayne, according to you, anything not in the original cut of the Constitution is at risk by this zealot driven not so supreme court. I see. So women's right to vote, slavery, inter-racial marriage, elimination of debtors prison - all at risk. Or is it only certain rights that are under attack by you nutcase right wingers?
Well, Bluebull, that's a mighty stupid comment you got there.
Marriage is not mentioned in the constitution, which means by your lights, ain't NOBODY got a right to get married.
The right to own slaves ain't in the constitution either. Speaking of Slavery, the 13th Amendment forbids it. Period.
As for voting, that right is not mentioned in the original constitution, and it ain't mentioned in the Bill of Rights, neither.
Hell, going by your screwball interpretation, the first people granted the right to vote were black people, including former slaves! See the 15th Amendment for details. Next, the 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote. Finally, it wasn't until the 26th Amendment that white men over 18 were explicitly, by implication, given the right to vote, based on your expert legal theory.
There also ain't no right to smoke cigarettes, drive a car, have sex, own a home, choose your own occupation... The rights not listed in the US Constitution are endless.
“One of the most curious things about Roe is that, behind its own verbal smokescreen, the substantive judgment on which it rests is nowhere to be found.” -Laurence Tribe
To "John Wayne"
"The Ninth Amendment (Amendment IX) to the United States Constitution addresses rights, retained by the people, that are not specifically enumerated in the Constitution. It is part of the Bill of Rights."
You remarks on "there also ain't right to..." are covered by the 9th Amendment.
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@John Wayne... Youse a superlative arm chair legal beagle wannabe. Ain't cha!
I believe in all those rights. If you read my comment a little more carefully, I was attacking bluebull's dumb standard.
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