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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhen this Supreme Court strikes down the 13th Amendment I'm going to buy Clarence Thomas
leftieNanner
(15,067 posts)I needed a grim chuckle this morning.
relayerbob
(6,537 posts)Aristus
(66,294 posts)n/t
brush
(53,743 posts)What would you do with him.
BlueJac
(7,838 posts)mopinko
(70,022 posts)soooo many burns going through my brain right now but i PROMISED earlg i would be good when he let me back in.
roamer65
(36,744 posts)Then lets sell him off to Anita Hill for one dollar.
ZonkerHarris
(24,209 posts)hlthe2b
(102,138 posts)He may have voted for horrific decisions that they like, but somehow I doubt that makes him "acceptable" nor Ginni their miscegenation heroine. Do all their AR15s and high-capacity handguns that they can now wield freely make him feel supremely (pun, intended) confident?
CrispyQ
(36,424 posts)2010
Forced Labor, Revisited: The Thirteenth Amendment and Abortion
Andrew Koppelman
Northwestern University School of Law, akoppelman@law.northwestern.edu
https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1031&context=facultyworkingpapers
snip...
I. The basic argument The Thirteenth Amendment reads as follows:
1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
2. Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
My claim is that the amendment is violated by laws that prohibit abortion. When women are compelled to carry and bear children, they are subjected to "involuntary servitude" in violation of the amendment. Abortion prohibitions violate the Amendment's guarantee of personal liberty, because forced pregnancy and childbirth, by compelling the woman to serve the fetus, creates "that control by which the personal service of one man [sic] is disposed of or coerced for another's benefit which is the essence of involuntary servitude."6
Such laws violate the amendment's guarantee of equality, because forcing women to be mothers makes them into a servant caste, a group which, by virtue of a status of birth, is held subject to a special duty to serve others and not themselves.
~more at link
Parents can't be compelled to donate their organs to their child, even to save the child's life. Why does a fetus have more claim on a woman's body than her breathing child?
THE MOST IMPORTANT DECISION A WOMAN CAN MAKE ISN'T YOURS.
mopinko
(70,022 posts)or even get tested for compatibility for a transplant.
zuul
(14,624 posts)Nevilledog
(51,027 posts)RANDYWILDMAN
(2,664 posts)What a thoughtless fuck !and you know he is a dirty old man and the repubs just turned their heads against all the sick garbage he did to anita hill...
Greybnk48
(10,162 posts)Thank you. I'm not morose over Roe right now, Just angry, but it definitely is almost the final straw. Humor is like medicine to me, so again, I thank you.
I think this will be detrimental to the GOP, I really do. We will prevail in the end.
ZonkerHarris
(24,209 posts)Renaissance Man
(669 posts)So, a thread that uses a title alluding to owning a black man as property is welcomed with open arms on this website? Wow.
ZonkerHarris
(24,209 posts)Ill be happy to explain the joke to you
You see the Supreme Court is constantly rolling back rights and taking away things so I am saying that theyre going to go as far as taking away the 13th amendment which ended slavery and Clarence Thomas with then be eligible to become a slave because hes so conservative but he would take away his own rights.
It is an ironic statement not to be taken seriously.