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RandySF

(84,260 posts)
Sun Dec 3, 2023, 06:22 PM Dec 2023

Anti-abortion groups shrug off elections losses and look to courts and legislatures

Anti-abortion groups are firing off a warning shot for 2024: We’re not going anywhere.

Their leaders say they’re undeterred by recent election setbacks and plan to plow ahead on what they’ve done for years, including working through state legislatures, federal agencies, and federal courts to outlaw abortion. And at least one prominent anti-abortion group is calling on conservative states to make it harder for voters to enact ballot measures, a tactic Republican lawmakers attempted in Ohio before voters there enshrined the right to abortion in the state’s constitution.

“For us, this is a civil rights battle. We have innocent human beings whose lives are being destroyed,” said Carol Tobias, president of the National Right to Life Committee, one of the country’s largest anti-abortion groups. “And we’re going to keep fighting because we think those are human beings who deserve protection.”

The movement is no stranger to the long game, working for decades to get the Supreme Court to overturn Roe vs. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision establishing a constitutional right to abortion that the high court nullified last year.




https://dailymontanan.com/2023/12/02/anti-abortion-groups-shrug-off-elections-losses-and-look-to-courts-and-legislatures-for-path-forward/

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Anti-abortion groups shrug off elections losses and look to courts and legislatures (Original Post) RandySF Dec 2023 OP
Of Course NowISeetheLight Dec 2023 #1
Exactly right. TSExile Dec 2023 #2
no kidding. tihs pisses me off the most Takket Dec 2023 #3
Sure, morons. And the women whose pregnancies go terribly wrong are not worthy of your efforts? Hekate Dec 2023 #4
+1, US has very poor infant mortality that forced birthers don't address uponit7771 Dec 2023 #5

NowISeetheLight

(4,002 posts)
1. Of Course
Sun Dec 3, 2023, 07:26 PM
Dec 2023
“For us, this is a civil rights battle. We have innocent human beings whose lives are being destroyed,” said Carol Tobias, president of the National Right to Life Committee, one of the country’s largest anti-abortion groups. “And we’re going to keep fighting because we think those are human beings who deserve protection.”

Of course once they're born, they could care less. Food stamps? Get a job. Healthcare? Good luck. School lunch? Eat cake. Pre-K education? Yeah right.

Takket

(23,714 posts)
3. no kidding. tihs pisses me off the most
Sun Dec 3, 2023, 11:25 PM
Dec 2023

there are 8 billion people on the world who actually ARE people, and a lot of them could use help. Why not focus your efforts on them?

Hekate

(100,133 posts)
4. Sure, morons. And the women whose pregnancies go terribly wrong are not worthy of your efforts?
Mon Dec 4, 2023, 12:11 AM
Dec 2023

The little girls that get raped? — tough shit, toots.

There is a place in the Hell they so fervently believe in for these woman-hating fanatics.

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