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Bucky

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22. In the long run, people won't accept it, but...

Mon May 23, 2022, 01:57 PM

May 2022

a whole lot of women's lives will be disrupted in the mean time. And the laws will persist in many areas for decades, against the popular will, as long as the SCOTUS maintains a working Handmaidens' majority.

And what people will accept is subject to manipulation over time. In 2017, Donald Trump could not have mustered a mob to attack the Capitol and disrupt the counting of the Electoral College results. But four years of manipulation and hysteria and chicanery was able to prepare that ground.

If this anti-abortion-rights regime is able to be sustained for a few years, then absolutely more Americans can be manipulated into supporting more extreme police state tactics to "protect pre-born children".

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Abortion-Travel Bans Are "Next Frontier" With Roe Set to Topple [View all] Bucky May 2022 OP

Exactly how do they think they're going to restrict people from traveling in US?I wonder Walleye May 2022 #1

They can try to pass laws allowing their citizens to sue people for getting abortions elsewhere. pnwmom May 2022 #41

They'll criminalize having abortions performed out of state. The family values Hortensis May 2022 #57

What is to stop them from passing legislation and The Theocratic Court of the United States... Thomas Hurt May 2022 #2

They could pass laws Mad_Machine76 May 2022 #4

travel papers, checkpoints, party apparatchiks going door to door to check women's cycles... Thomas Hurt May 2022 #8

For sure Mad_Machine76 May 2022 #10

naw, people will sneak across the border. Some will get away with it, some won't. Thomas Hurt May 2022 #17

In the long run, people won't accept it, but... Bucky May 2022 #22

They can do like China did to enforce their one child policy. kskiska May 2022 #27

That was horrifying too. alphafemale May 2022 #42

All of that will take lots of $$ mcar May 2022 #63

I remember cops staking out the Kansas-Missouri border in the 1970s tblue37 May 2022 #9

Kansas still does that SCantiGOP May 2022 #14

I still live in Kansas, and that still bums me out. tblue37 May 2022 #16

Have their trusty probable cause on four legs beside them of course exboyfil May 2022 #18

Ohio used to do this not only for liquor but cigerettes as well. Norbert May 2022 #32

Probable cause to give a pregnancy test? exboyfil May 2022 #15

And where is the money going to come from to fund these kinds of efforts? Seriously PortTack May 2022 #44

And that, my friend, is probably the only thing that will stop these efforts jmowreader May 2022 #54

Great analysis!! PortTack May 2022 #69

When abortion was illegal in ireland..anti choicers staked out ferries to England Demovictory9 May 2022 #64

If you think Alito's mental gymnastics so far were impressive Retrograde May 2022 #21

Will there be roadblocks with pregnancy tests? Doc Sportello May 2022 #3

Nothing short of a police state Mad_Machine76 May 2022 #7

Maybe the opening stage of a police state is part of the plan Doc Sportello May 2022 #11

Yeah Mad_Machine76 May 2022 #12

We are already seeing data brokers are selling information on who visits clinics/planned parenthood Hassin Bin Sober May 2022 #30

I wonder if they will start using facial recognition software as well exboyfil May 2022 #38

I guess this the new reality Mad_Machine76 May 2022 #50

State police from Anti-Abortion states will stake out abortion clinics... Bucky May 2022 #23

I also expect anti-choice cultists to get jobs in these clinics. roamer65 May 2022 #53

Maybe in smaller states on small highways alphafemale May 2022 #60

Ludicrous ideas don't stop these aholes Doc Sportello May 2022 #62

It is just dizzying even trying to get on a Interstate sometimes. alphafemale May 2022 #65

The whole thing is disgusting on many levels Doc Sportello May 2022 #66

They care about the unborn. At least in theory. alphafemale May 2022 #68

"It'll never happen" - Is what we will hear just before it is legislated ck4829 May 2022 #5

How can they prove that a woman had an abortion while she was out of state? Bettie May 2022 #6

Probably seeking abortion services will be a one way trip exboyfil May 2022 #13

I believe at least one of the states that will protect abortion Freddie May 2022 #20

I saw a minor prelude to this 40 years ago DFW May 2022 #19

Texas Rangers staking out Colorado abortion clinics. Running facial recognition software. Bucky May 2022 #29

I wish the CO state cops would have arrested them. DFW May 2022 #31

Do you know how much private investigators can get away with these days? Bucky May 2022 #35

A PI has to be licensed to work, and can be arrested if he goes too far DFW May 2022 #36

I don't believe this has happened yet! LeftInTX May 2022 #58

Roe hasn't yet been officially overturned, so it's just speculation DFW May 2022 #61

You can not be arrested for legal actions taken in one state Zeitghost May 2022 #24

You and I don't know what lengths they'll go to Bucky May 2022 #28

Roe was always vulnerable Zeitghost May 2022 #47

So in your view, they'll stop encroaching on established rights with the Sudetenland? Bucky May 2022 #49

There was a legal mechinism Zeitghost May 2022 #55

Totally unconstitutional and will NEVER pass budkin May 2022 #25

You really think this fascist Supreme Court cares? Marius25 May 2022 #33

Yeah you're right, I'm just in denial budkin May 2022 #40

The Constitution is what the six GOP justices say it is exboyfil May 2022 #39

Fugitive slave act redux unblock May 2022 #26

Connecticut passed a law that any women who go there for Marius25 May 2022 #34

I don't know if you noticed, but Alito's anti-Roe draft blew right past mention of states' rights Bucky May 2022 #52

Republicans will eventually destroy themselves with their zealotry PlanetBev May 2022 #37

Truer words have never been spoken....nt Karma13612 May 2022 #56

These bans are clearly unconstitutional but that likely won't matter to the corrupt SCOTUS. LonePirate May 2022 #43

If such a thing happened, their own "states rights" dogma would be erased. themaguffin May 2022 #45

Oh no, how could Republicans ever recover from such open faced hypocricy? Bucky May 2022 #46

Michigan's pre-Roe ban is under injunction by the Michigan Court of Claims. roamer65 May 2022 #48

Then won't it go to interstate commerce? JustAnotherGen May 2022 #51

Bonnie and Clyde were killed 88 yrs ago today by Texas Rangers in Louisiana LeftInTX May 2022 #59

Forced birthing is extremely cruel and inhumane! Initech May 2022 #67