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I have always said--don't let any abortion case get to the SC.
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The COVID-Denying Party of Life Finds a New Way to Kill Roe
HYPOCRITICAL OATH
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson admits that the new anti-abortion law isnt even written to be passed. Its written so the new super-Trumpy Supreme Court can shoot Roe down with it.
Molly Jong-Fast
Editor-At-Large
Published Mar. 11, 2021 5:04AM ET
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It was a bill so bad it wasnt written to ever be enacted. Instead, Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson signed Senate Bill 6 with the hopes that it would be overturned and begin a legal battle that could theoretically lead to overturning Roe v. Wade and making abortion illegal in the United States.
Youd think Republicans might be a bit sheepish about protecting the lives of embryos since theyve shown such apathy toward protecting the lives of actual living people. But 530,000 Americans have died of COVID, and still Republicans are largely indifferent toward masking and other restrictions. On Wednesday, Texas ended its mask mandate despite only having vaccinated 8.5 percent of the state.
But Republicans cant get abortion off the brain, and now they have a Supreme Court that could make all their most Handmaids Tale dreams come true........................
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)I asked what is republicans hard on with abortion? Just how many people do you know who have had an abortion? I don't know any. That's a republican bogeyman. Its all bullshit.
Tanuki
(14,893 posts)have chosen not to mention it, since an estimated 24% of American women have had an abortion by the the age of 45. A crisis pregnancy is not an imaginary GOP bogeyman; it is a reality for millions of people who are at risk of losing their already eroded rights to choose. Some more stats:
https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/induced-abortion-united-states#
WHO HAS ABORTIONS?
At 2014 abortion rates, about one in four (24%) women will have an abortion by age 45.
More than half of all U.S. abortion patients in 2014 were in their 20s: Patients aged 2024 obtained 34% of all abortions, and patients aged 2529 obtained 27%.5Adolescents made up 12% of abortion patients in 2014: Those aged 1819 accounted for 8% of all abortions, 1517-year-olds for 3% and those younger than 15 for 0.2%.
White patients accounted for 39% of abortion procedures in 2014, black patients for 28%, Hispanic patients for 25%, and patients of other races and ethnicities for 9%.
Seventeen percent of abortion patients in 2014 identified themselves as mainline Protestant, 13% as evangelical Protestant and 24% as Catholic, while 38% reported no religious affiliation and the remaining 8% reported some other affiliation.
The vast majority (94%) of abortion patients in 2014 identified as heterosexual or straight. Four percent of patients said they were bisexual; 0.3% identified as homosexual, gay or lesbian; and 1% identified as something else.
Fifty-nine percent of abortions in 2014 were obtained by patients who had had at least one birth.
Some 75% of abortion patients in 2014 were poor (having an income below the federal poverty level of $15,730 for a family of two in 2014) or low-income (having an income of 100199% of the federal poverty level).
In 2014, 16% of patients who obtained abortions in the United States were born outside the United States, a proportion comparable to their representation in the U.S. population (17% of women aged 1544).
In 2014, 51% of abortion patients were using a contraceptive method in the month they became pregnant, most commonly condoms (24%) or a short-acting hormonal method (13%).
sinkingfeeling
(51,274 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(22,145 posts)Everyone knows someone who's had an abortion. They just don't know they know.
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)It's not 'all bullshit' in terms of it not really happening.
It's all bullshit that life begins at conception, however. Or at least, it's an arbitrary belief.
moondust
(19,917 posts)several decades ago who had a coat hanger abortion.
Maybe somebody should tell small-minded, selfish, power-hungry Republicans that banning abortion will not result in enough additional supporters to make them significantly richer and more powerful.
Maxheader
(4,366 posts)None frivolous cases? BS theater? Assa admits it is a bad draft..
Sc shouldn't even see it...and the presenting attorneys reprimanded,
assholes.....
GoCubsGo
(32,061 posts)It's how they have been chipping away at women's reproductive rights for decades. Now that they've packed the courts, it's full steam ahead.
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)It would, however, make it so states could make it illegal.