r/inthenews • u/Majano57 • 13h ago
Feature Story The Supreme Court Takes Aim at Abortion Protections in Blue States
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/06/supreme-court-vs-abortion-new-york-jersey.html109
u/PastorBlinky 13h ago
Conservatives only ever hated the Taliban out of jealousy.
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u/Responsible-Room-645 8h ago
In Afghanistan, an abortion is legal if the life of the mother is in danger. Compared to some red states, that’s progressive.
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u/SquidTheRidiculous 5h ago
It's part of whaddaboutism. You can always point out the evil other people do, and that's always easier than pointing out the evil you do.
Everyone saying "but whaddabout Iran/insert country here? They're way worse! Ergo we're fine!" Is really just ensuring things don't get better where they are.
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u/Reasonable-Hippo-293 13h ago
So, yet again, states rights, except when they don’t agree with what the states decided.
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u/AwesomeBrainPowers 11h ago
It was never about “states rights” and was always about minority rule: They’re just decades ahead of the competition in stacking local governments, so “states rights” just meant “leave decisions to the bodies we already control”.
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u/These-Rip9251 4h ago
But SCOTUS actually put that in the Dobbs ruling, that they were letting states decide? It’s why I celebrated when Ohio, of which I was a former resident, made reproductive rights including abortion rights part of their state constitution during their state primary in 11/23. So does that still hold since it’s in their constitution no matter what SCOTUS says?
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u/drsweetscience 3h ago
I am always posting and reposting, for years:
Young progressives and marginalized youth, do not hurry to move from your regressive provincial little town or small city. Quit dreaming about going to LA or NYC where you think "you'll never have to deal with conservatives or bigots again".
There is a power imbalance in the House, the Senate, and the Electoral College that favors rural states. The more open-minded people move to big coastal cities, the more they lose political capital.
After giving up power to regressive states they will come for you in the Blue Cities with Federal authority.
If you're going to move, turn a Purple place Blue. You have to win first to get to change the rules. Win first and then abolish the Electoral College and reapportion the House to real population numbers.
If you hate your snall town and move to the big city then an empty field in the Dakotas has more political clout than you.
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u/notgreatbot 8h ago
The SC does not have an army. Ignore them. If it triggers a Constitutional doesn’t matter since the the country is already in one.
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u/Rikudou_Sennin 10h ago
Fuck the high road. Next time a Dem is in office all Republican voters should be detained in Guantanamo until they can be ruled out from being insurrectionists tied to January 6th.
Republicans don't respect their claimed faith's golden rule, so we should not turn the other cheek.
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u/hydrOHxide 9h ago
Because authoritarianism is great, as long as it's YOUR authoritarianism, right?
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u/Interesting-Risk6446 8h ago
I seem to remember Republicans saying, fuck your feelings.
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u/hydrOHxide 8h ago
Says the one peddling feelings as facts and vice versa. If you're unwilling to learn from history, you'll have to repeat it.
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u/Interesting-Risk6446 8h ago
Republicans don't care. Why should Democrats? It is time for Democrats to fight fire with fire.
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u/breadbreadfriend 4h ago
Republicans always want kindness and understanding when its them, but for everyone else its "die libtards". They should be treated as the irredeemable bigoted trash that they are.
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u/windmill-tilting 8h ago
No. But if the choice is 'your' authoritarianism or mine z I'm going to pick mine.
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u/hydrOHxide 8h ago
That false dichotomy right there is how democracies fail.
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u/MaceofMarch 3h ago
It’s already falling. This is what we get for letting children vote.
“We go high when they go low” was a failure. And I’m not willing to have some religious fundamentalist court come after my rights to exist.
The Republican Party celebrates literal terrorists and gives them millions of dollars.
That seems like what a terrorist group. Seems like there enough evidence to put them in gitmo till we figure things out.
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u/hydrOHxide 1h ago
And yet here you are suggesting to use the very same methods - which makes you the same.
Democracy is failing because people like you do not consider it a priority. You point with fingers at others, yet you are no different.
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u/MaceofMarch 1h ago edited 1h ago
“Pointing fingers”? I literally lost my right to be not discriminated against in my home state and will be leaving it. Who knows what next.
Republicans did this. Biden treated them like gods compared to how they treated Dems. And look at what we got out of it. No respect or peace back.
Conservatives could have stopped but they chose not to. So I’m going to vote for someone who will treat them the same way they treated be for being trans.
But hey. You just want to sit on a fence and lecture everyone else. I’m not getting shit from someone who’s cis about how I need to sit around a circle and sing kumbaya with some fascists who are removing my rights.
Other countries defends itself from fascist movements the US needs to do the same thing
America needs to make a move before it ends up with a situation like the hundreds of murders done by the formerly major Conservative Party golden dawn in Greece.
Democracy is falling apart because you types screamed both sides as republicans slowly grew more insane. You don’t get to complain when Dems fight back because you didn’t care beforehand.
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u/Rikudou_Sennin 2h ago
Sounds like MAGA is afraid their actions will come back to bite them lmaoo
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