Majority Say Abortion Should Be Mostly Legal May 6, 2022 at 2:07 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
A new Pew Research poll finds 61% of U.S. adults say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, while 37% say it should be illegal in all or most cases.
Solid jobs gains, but wages undershoot expectations
The April jobs report shows that the labour market continues to strengthen with non-farm payrolls rising 428k, the same as the number of jobs created in March. The gains were spread solidly throughout all sectors with manufacturing posting a 55k increase, retail 29k, trade and transport 104k and business services up 41k. Leisure and hospitality continued to grow strongly with employment rising 78,000 while once again it was that Federal government to be the only sector that lost jobs (-6k). Federal government employment is now down four out of the past five months.
While this is a good outcome markets may actually focus on other parts of the report. The unemployment rate held steady at 3.6% rather than dropping to 3.5% as expected, which in combination with a softer average hourly earnings figure of 0.3% month-on-month rather than the 0.4% consensus forecast (and slower than the 0.5% gain in March) may been taken as a signal of less inflationary pressures in the jobs market.
A lack of suitable workers will keep wages growth elevated
However, we don’t think this is the start of a new trend. The labour force participation rate fell quite sharply to 62.2% from 62.4% as 363,000 left the workforce. Consequently, the slower wage growth number might not last long as we know demand for workers remains intense. After all there are currently 11.55mn job vacancies in the United States while the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) reported 47% of companies having vacancies they can't fill. If there are even fewer potential employees from which to choose, wages will continue to be bid higher
Job Openings Soar May 6, 2022 at 1:44 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 59 Comments
Associated Press: “The economy now has, on average, two available jobs for every unemployed person. That’s the highest such proportion ON RECORD.”
Trump Wanted To Activate Generals In Order to Court-Martial Them May 6, 2022 at 1:24 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 47 Comments
According to a copy of former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper’s memoir, A Sacred Oath, former President Donald Trump demanded that former Gen. Stan McChrystal and former Navy Admiral William McRaven be recalled into active duty so that they could be court-martialed for criticizing the president, TPM reports.
A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times Esper, Mark T. (Author) 05/10/2022 Publication
Trump Out-Putins Putin
James Carville SAID: "Roe is over two to one in approval, and Alito and them said we don’t care, we’re not fair, and we don’t care."
He added: “If this doesn’t motivate people, if this doesn’t get you going, then I can’t do anything to help you.”
The Republican Axis Reversing the Rights Revolution May 6, 2022 at 11:42 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 127 Comments
Ron Brownstein: “Since the 1960s, Congress and federal courts have acted mostly to strengthen the floor of basic civil rights available to citizens in all 50 states, a pattern visible on issues from the dismantling of Jim Crow racial segregation to the right to abortion to the authorization of same-sex marriage.”
“But now, offensives by red-state governments and GOP-appointed federal judges are poised to retrench those common standards across an array of issues. The result through the 2020s could be a dramatic erosion of common national rights and a widening gulf—a ‘great divergence’—between the liberties of Americans in blue states and those in red states.
“The only lever Democrats have to resist these efforts is their unified control of the White House and Congress. In theory, this allows them to pass federal legislation establishing a new floor of nationwide rights on voting, abortion, LGBTQ issues, and other areas.”
Running Against MAGA Extremism May 6, 2022 at 11:06 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 58 Comments
Dan Pfieffer: “The Republicans are ... pushing one of the most unpopular, extreme agendas in modern political history. For all the handwringing about how Democrats can win the culture wars, it’s the Republicans who should fear a high-profile conflict on those cultural issues.
“And it’s not just the ‘culture war’ issues where Republicans are off base. Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy stated that one of his first acts as Speaker would be to shut down the investigation into the January 6th insurrection, but that investigation is supported by two-thirds of Americans.”
Fed Chair Jerome Powell this week talked of optimism that labour supply will return, but we have seen little sign so far and we are sceptical that things will change soon. As such we continue to expect a tight labour market that will keep upward pressure on employment costs. In an environment of decent corporate pricing power where firms can pass cost increases onto customers, this is a key reason why we believe inflation will be very slow to fall back to the 2% target. This would be fully consistent with the Fed continuing to hike interest rates in 50bp increments for at least the next three meetings.
No, it shouldn't be the Democrats number one issue, but it should be an IMPORTANT one.
Women in particular need to take a strong stand on this, and they are realizing it.
Too many of them were so sure Hillary would be elected that they didn't bother to vote. If they had known the election of Donald Trump would lead to this and other setbacks, that woman abuser never would have been elected.
For a member of one of the most august and venerable institutions in American public life, Samuel Alito has provoked an astonishing outpouring of jarring adjectives this week. “Appalling and heinous” – Vanity Fair; “acidic and extreme” – Slate; “dreadful and repugnant” – the Washington Post; “scathing and dismissive” – Los Angeles Times.
The strong words were directed at the draft ruling written by Alito and leaked to Politico that, barring a possible but unlikely change of heart by any of Alito’s conservative peers on the US supreme court, will eviscerate federal abortion rights in America.
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Though millions had been bracing themselves for the court’s newly emboldened rightwing majority to deliver a blow to Roe v Wade, the constitutional right to abortion that has been law of the land for half a century, Alito’s attack was so brutal and direct it still left many dumbstruck.
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“Roe and Casey must be overruled,” Alito wrote, referring to the 1973 landmark ruling along with its 1992 affirmation in Planned Parenthood v Casey. “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start.”
It is conceivable that some of the sharper edges of Alito’s devastating 98-page screed will be smoothed out before the final ruling is delivered in coming weeks. Other supreme court justices, notably Brett Kavanaugh, might demand as much in order to spare their own blushes.
But none of that will alter the fact that Alito will forever be known as the supreme court justice who destroyed a woman’s right to control her own body and who set the US on a regressive course pointing back to the 17th century
A new Pew Research poll finds 61% of U.S. adults say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, while 37% say it should be illegal in all or most cases.
Let me guess, Reverend?
Political.wire?
Did you "read the actual poll"
56% believe that it should be made illegal after certain date - 12% are wishy washy and only 31% believe it should be legal as a matter of simple choice.
The poll has no real differences than the other recent polls. Approximately a third of the country (31% in the Pew poll) wants abortion basically legal upon demand. About that same amount wants abortions illegal (38% in the pew poll) except for rape, incest, health of the mother or baby. The rest want some limits as to time.
It's how these polls are "semantically presented" that makes the difference. But at the end of the day, you do not change people's opinions from semantics.
In the end only about a third of Americans really want abortion on demand.
Rrb is mad at Germany because Hitler is not in charge 🙄
, Slovakia, May 6 (Reuters) - Germany will deliver seven self-propelled howitzers to Ukraine, Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht said on Friday, in a further reversal of a longtime policy not to send heavy weapons to war zones due to the country's Nazi past.
The howitzer delivery, on top of five such artillery systems the Netherlands had already pledged, was another sign of Berlin heeding pressure at home and abroad for it to help Ukraine fend off a Russian invasion.
The heavy weapons will come out of Bundeswehr inventories and be delivered as soon as they emerge from maintenance over the next weeks, Lambrecht and her chief of defence, general Eberhard Zorn, told reporters in the Slovak town of Sliac.
"We have to confront the Russian aggression, we have to support Ukraine in this fight, in this war," Dutch Defence Minister Kajsa Ollongren said at a joint news conference with Lambrecht.
Kyiv had requested 12 howitzers and swift training to quickly deploy the weapons in the battlefield, Ollongren said at Sliac air base, where the Germans and Dutch have set up Patriot missile defence batteries since Russia invaded Ukraine.
The training of the first group of some 20 Ukrainian troops on the Panzerhaubitze 2000 howitzer is expected to start next week in the German town of Idar-Oberstein, Zorn said. These soldiers had experience in operating Soviet-built howitzers.
Ukraine's pleas for heavy weapons have intensified since Moscow has turned its fiercest firepower on the country's east and south, after failing to take the capital Kyiv.
Scott..Louisiana lawmakers have advanced a bill that would abolish abortion in the state, grant constitutional rights to "all unborn children from the moment of fertilization" and classify abortion as a homicide crime.
Of a woman goes to another state, she will be charged for murder and can be extradited to Louisiana and be put to death
ATLANTA (AP) — A judge in Georgia on Friday found that U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is qualified to run for reelection, finding that a group of voters who had challenged her eligibility failed to prove she engaged in insurrection after taking office. But the decision will ultimately be up to Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
Before reaching his decision, state Administrative Law Judge Charles Beaudrot held a daylong hearing in April that included arguments from lawyers for the voters and for Greene, as well as extensive questioning of Greene herself. He also received extensive briefing from both sides.
State law says Beaudrot must submit his findings to Raffensperger, who has to decide whether Greene should be removed from the ballot.
A Raffensperger spokesperson said in an email that the secretary of state had received Beaudrot’s recommendation and “will release his final decision soon.”
The challenge to Greene’s eligibility was filed by voters who allege the GOP congresswoman played a significant role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot that disrupted Congress’ certification of Joe Biden’s presidential election victory. That puts her in violation of a seldom-invoked part of the 14th Amendment having to do with insurrection and makes her ineligible to run for reelection, they argue
With two bills filed in the ongoing legislative session and significant pressure from religious leaders, Louisiana could see an end to the death penalty this year, though it remains a longshot.
There have been several attempts in the last several years to eliminate capital punishment in Louisiana, but the efforts have repeatedly come up short. As of 2018, the death penalty was still fairly popular among Louisiana's residents, though it's been more than a decade since the state's last execution.
The losses Friday came despite an April jobs report that showed a gain of 428,000 jobs, more than the 400,000 expected by economists surveyed by Dow Jones.
One weak area of the report was the labor force participation rate, which was little changed month over month and remains 1.2 percentage points below its pre-pandemic level. Economists believe that a recovery in participation could help stem the rise in wages and, by extension, inflation.
“If we are to get a soft landing, we are going to have to see a recovery in participation at a pretty rapid clip,” said Luke Bartholomew, senior economist at Abrdn.
The losses on Friday put the three major indexes in danger of finishing lower for the week despite starting with three straight positive sessions.
Merand Garland announced on Thursday that the Department of Justice is launching the Office of Environmental Justice. It speaks volumes about the priorities of this administration.
There are so many major problems in the country right now, and this is their concern.
It’s likely that this is just to remind the left how committed Biden is to fighting climate change. And of course to politicize the language around the topic and criminalize dissent.
Breanne Deppisch reports at the Washington Examiner:
DOJ launches new Office of Environmental Justice
The Justice Department is launching a new Office of Environmental Justice, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced on Thursday, which will seek to redress health risks from climate change faced by minorities and low-income people in the United States.
“Although violations of our environmental laws can happen anywhere, communities of color, indigenous communities, and low-income communities often bear the brunt of the harm caused by environmental crime, pollution, and climate change,” Garland said at a news conference on Thursday.
“For far too long, these communities have faced barriers to accessing the justice they deserve,” Garland said, adding that the Justice Department “will prioritize the cases that will have the greatest impact on the communities most overburdened by environmental harm.”
Cynthia Ferguson, an attorney who currently works in the department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division, will be the acting director of the new office.
NBC News has more:
The Biden administration has asked Congress for $1.4 million for the office. Shalanda Young, the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, recently told lawmakers that the Justice Department “absolutely needs the tools to make sure all Americans are treated equally under the law even when there are environmental issues.”…
After environmental criminal referrals dipped during the Trump administration, President Joe Biden issued an executive order in January 2021 directing the attorney general to “ensure comprehensive attention to environmental justice throughout the Department of Justice.”
You can guess where this is going.
Would it be too much to expect the DOJ to deal with actual crime?
The vile Dumb-o-crats have thoroughly corrupted the word “justice,” by predictably overusing it and appending it to every single one of their corrosive policy aims and propaganda narratives, to lend the gloss of moral legitimacy to their manifestly totalitarian ethos and agenda.
I emphatically reject every single one of the Dumb-o-crats’ contrived propaganda phrases and their entire lexicon, including, but, not limited to: “social justice;” “racial justice;” “economic justice;” “environmental justice;” ” ‘trans’ justice;” “equity,” “diversity and inclusion” (TM); “person of color;” “black and brown bodies;” etc., etc.
The April jobs report has just been released, showing unemployment staying steady at near-50 year lows, nearly where the country was before the pandemic. 428,000 jobs were created in the month, as CNBC reports. 8.3 million jobs have been created since Joe Biden has been President.
Economists are praising the results.
University of Michigan economics professor Justin Wolfers, a New York Times contributor, says the labor market is “just motoring along,” and adds: “It’s hard to see where all that recession talk is coming from. This is a recovery with a lotta momentum.”
“Average earnings rose 10 cents/hour. Earnings are up 5.5% over the past year,” adds New York Times economics reporter Ben Casselman.
Economist and professor at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, Jason Furman, the former chair of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), says the news is “another sign that the underlying inflation trend may be lower than I thought and coming down.”
He adds that average hourly wage growth is increasing but slowing:
Meanwhile, Wolfers sums it up, suggesting Americans accept the good news.
And on social media, many are tagging the good news with #BidenBoom.
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Imo if Pence and Harris are the two candidates Pence would kick her ass. At a gala Thursday night for an anti-abortion group, former Vice President Mike Pence took aim at sitting Vice President Kamala Harris over remarks she delivered at a pro-choice group’s annual gala two nights earlier.
“I say with the lives of 62 million unborn boys and girls ended in abortion since 1973, generations of mothers enduring heartbreaking and loss that can last a lifetime: Madame Vice President, how dare you?” Pence told anti-abortion activists at the annual gala for Carolina Pregnancy Center in Spartanburg, S.C.
On Tuesday, Harris spoke at the Washington gala for EMILY’s List, where she sharply criticized Republicans and conservative justices on the Supreme Court after it was revealed that the high court was poised to overturn Roe. v. Wade.
Mike Pence Former Vice President Mike Pence. (Ryan M. Kelly/AFP via Getty Images) “Women in almost half the country could see their access to abortion severely limited,” Harris said of the forthcoming decision. “In 13 of those states, women would lose access to abortion immediately and outright. Those Republican leaders who are trying to weaponize the use of the law against women, well we say, ‘How dare they! How dare they tell a woman what she can do and cannot do with her own body! How dare they!’”
John Hayward https://twitter.com/Doc_0/status/1522602486380511232
Ron DeSantis snapped the Left's corporate fascism over his knee like he was breaking a twig. No conga line of woke corporations lining up to join the Operation SCOTUS Leak abortion freak-out. For the first time in years, they're nervous about following lefty lunatics off a cliff.
Hope that is true. Last time I checked Disney had lost about 63 Billion dollars in market cap.
Bidenomics "A growing percentage of retirees are returning to work. The percentage of retired workers re-entering the labor force has been rising. In March, 3.15% of retirees returned to work"
The latest version of the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA), which would effectively make abortion a statutory right, scrubbed references to transgender and nonbinary people’s pregnancies as well as language related to “reproductive justice.”
Earlier versions of the bill used language tying race and transgenderism to the issue of abortion in its non-binding “Findings” section. Democratic Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal, the bill’s sponsor, told Politico the language had been removed from the bill due to objections from some Democrats.
The newest version removed referenced to white supremacy and gender oppression as well as notes clarifying that its provisions applied to anyone with the “capacity for pregnancy” including “transgender men, non-binary individuals, those who identify with a different gender, and others,” according to Politico.
“Reproductive Justice seeks to address restrictions on reproductive health, including abortion, that perpetuate systems of oppression, lack of bodily autonomy, white supremacy, and anti-Black racism,” a previous version of the bill said.
“This violent legacy has manifested in policies including enslavement, rape, and experimentation on Black women; forced sterilizations; medical experimentation on low-income women’s reproductive systems; and the forcible removal of Indigenous children,” it said.
Reproductive Justice seeks to address restrictions on reproductive health, including abortion, that perpetuate systems of oppression, lack of bodily autonomy, white supremacy, and anti-Black racism,” a previous version of the bill said.
“This violent legacy has manifested in policies including enslavement, rape, and experimentation on Black women; forced sterilizations; medical experimentation on low-income women’s reproductive systems; and the forcible removal of Indigenous children,” it said.
Anyone explained to Green Beret Blumenthal who Margaret Sanger is ?
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Again rat showing how afraid he is of his own shadow!!!!! I can see rat in Texas being part of a fetus possy chasing women who break the abortion laws for cash.......asshole
Being highly educated doesn't matter because they are nuts
They have actually received awards in the past for being non-partisan and informative. The only people who would not appreciate what they do are those who do not like to be told what the law actually is or hear an opinion different from Jeffrey "masterbation" Toobin...
Quinnipiac University survey from late last year, found that just 16 percent of Texans said abortion should be illegal in the cases of rape and incest. Fully 77 percent said it should be legal — in a socially conservative, red state. And even Republicans opposed making it illegal in those circumstances by a 2-to-1 margin.
In opposition to Roe, many in the GOP want bans on abortion even in cases of rape and incest. That’s in Kentucky, Arizona, Oklahoma and Florida. Talk about a wedge issue! J.D. Vance, the avatar of Republican illiberalism, favors no exceptions.
A healthy political party would thrill at this opportunity — a winning issue where the GOP has gone off the deep end. In the states likely to “trigger” total bans if Roe falls, “43 percent of adults on average say abortion should be legal in most or all cases, while 52 percent say it should be illegal in most or all cases.” That’s a highly winnable fight. In states which might re-enact some kind of abortion restrictions, “an average of 49 percent of adults say abortion should be legal in most or all cases, compared with 45 percent who say otherwise” — even more promising terrain for Democrats.
So why the preference for terror, fear and rage on an issue where the public remains deeply conflicted? I have two thoughts. The first is that many Democratic elites really do not trust the American people. They have a resilient belief that a huge segment of this country is rotten, bigoted, racist and, yes, deplorable. Here’s the president today: “I’m not prepared to leave [abortion policy] to the whims of the public at the moment in local areas.” Whims of the public! We used to call that democracy.
But the truth is that resiliently divisive and difficult moral issues — and abortion is absolutely one of them — require unsatisfactory political resolution in a healthy democracy. Some rights granted by courts are, or quickly become, uncontroversial — like buying contraception, marrying someone of another race, or of the same sex.
Other rights never gain this kind of legitimacy — like abortion, for the obvious reason that many believe a life is at stake. And the cost of imposing one side’s extreme view on everyone else and taking the question out of politics altogether is huge. It has delegitimized our democracy and the courts, has helped spawn a powerful reactionary movement from Reagan to Trump, and empowered unhinged Christianism. Sometimes I wonder if we’d be a far more liberal (and saner) country today if the left hadn’t overreached so massively in 1973, on such weak constitutional grounds, and refused to budge so doggedly thereafter.
The flip-side to this, however, is the opportunity we now have to repair that damage. Abortion, if we wanted, could actually be an issue that restores health to a polarized polity by forcing us to come to various forms of compromise over an issue we’ve debated entirely in the abstract until now. We can no longer punt it.
States can pursue different legal regimes, from the very permissive to the very restrictive, and the results can be weighed up. This fall, we have elections across the country. Remember federalism? This is a near-perfect reflection of its essential role in keeping this country in one piece. And, in my view, all of this actually calls the cheap, moralizing bluff of the religious right. Now they actually have to enforce and defend draconian bans — and see popular revulsion grow, unless they too can come up with a compromise. There’s a reason the GOP has been somewhat quiet about the substance of the leak. The smart ones are worried.
Leftists, if they could only snap out of their disdain for democracy, can make a powerful case for moderation on this issue against right-extremism. To do that, of course, they will have to back some restrictions on abortion in some states — which some seem very reluctant to do — and even allow some diversity of opinion within their own ranks. There are forces aiming to prevent that — forces that Biden could confront if he hadn’t long been beaten into learned helplessness. But surely someone can take the initiative.
So let’s stop the hyperventilation and get back to democracy. Persuade people, if you can. Get them out to vote. Stop demonizing those you disagree with and compromise with them in office, however difficult that may be. What Roe did was kickstart the extreme cultural polarization that has defined and blighted the last few decades of American politics. Maybe the end of Roe can mark the beginning of a return to living together, and negotiating a way to make that bearable.
The center, in other words, is now wide open. Will anyone — anyone — occupy it?
Nick Freitas https://mobile.twitter.com/NickForVA/status/1522266681845989377
Elon Musk should buy Planned Parenthood and turn it into a place where they actually help people with parenting instead of ensuring they won't be parents.
and take the 150 million plus that they spend on democrats (US government gives then over $500 million a year) and instead use it for patients
Andrew Sullivan To say that a leaked draft of a Supreme Court ruling prompted an elite meltdown would be a gross understatement. This was a culture war 9/11. “I have typed and deleted a great many comments,” Roxane Gay tweeted. “What do you say when nine people can dictate what happens to your body? It’s ridiculous and hateful.” The Atlantic’s Adam Serwer, always the subtle one, announced that the court had abolished the entire 20th century. Yep: no more suffrage for women! Jim Crow now!
Taking the arguments of abortion opponents seriously was never an option: “Stripping women of their humanity and rights isn’t a consequence of the ‘pro-life’ agenda, it’s the entire point,” declared Jessica Valenti. Rebecca Traister confessed: “My teeth have been chattering uncontrollably for an hour. Bodies/minds are so weird. Like, not euphemistically — actually chattering. Audibly. And full shaking body. Though otherwise wholly, rationally, well and truly expecting it.”
Going further, freshly-minted critical gender theorist, Jennifer Rubin, argued that any restriction on abortion rights is a violation of secularism: “The right-wing justices and their supporters appear ready to reject one of the Founders’ core principles: that religion shall not be imposed by government edict.” Kurt Andersen went old school and worried about a papist cabal: “It really is kind of remarkable that only one in five Americans call themselves Catholic, but of the Supreme Court majority apparently about to permit abortion to be outlawed, all but one are Catholic and that one was raised Catholic.” Then there’s Vox’s Ian Millhiser: “Seriously, shout out to whoever the hero was within the Supreme Court who said ‘fuck it! Let’s burn this place down.’” Fuck it! I’ll do it live!
Kamala Harris also found her voice:
Those Republican leaders who are trying to weaponize the use of the law against women. Well we say, ‘How dare they?’ How dare they tell a woman what she can do and cannot do with her own body? How dare they? How dare they try to stop her from determining her own future? How dare they try to deny women their rights and their freedoms?
The premise here is that all women support abortion rights. But there is no serious gender gap on this question. In fact, a majority of “pro-lifers” are women, not men. So Harris is effectively saying: how dare women be allowed a voice in this debate?
Within minutes of the SCOTUS leak, moreover, we were told it means that before long, interracial marriages will be banned … in a country where 94 percent support them! Imagine Clarence Thomas divorcing himself by jurisprudence. Here’s Traister again: “Voting rights were gutted in 2013. Marriage equality. Griswold. Loving. Don’t ever listen to anyone who tells you such fears are silly or overblown.” Actually, listen to them — if you can hear them over Traister’s permanent rage-tantrum.
What strikes me about all of this is not the emotive hyperbole — that’s par for the course in a country where every discourse is now dialed to eleven. What strikes me most in these takes is the underlying contempt for and suspicion of the democratic process — from many of the same people who insist they want to save it. How dare voters have a say on abortion rights! The issue — which divides the country today as much as it has for decades — is one that apparently cannot ever be put up for a vote. On this question, Democrats really do seem to believe that seven white men alone should make that decision — once, in 1973. Women today, including one on SCOTUS? Not so much.
Is this the case in any other Western country? No. Even the most progressive countries regulate abortion through the democratic process. In Germany, it’s illegal after 12 weeks of pregnancy — more restrictive than the case before the US Supreme Court that bars abortion after 15 weeks. European countries where the legal cutoff is even more restrictive: Austria, Spain, Greece, Italy, France, Belgium and Switzerland. Abortion enshrined as a constitutional right? Not even in super-progressive Canada.
The United States, in other words, has been an outlier in the past and, if Roe is reversed, will return to a democratic politics of abortion, in line with most of the Western world. And so I wonder: why is this so terrifying for pro-choicers?
If you look at polling, there is very little support in America for a total ban — let alone one that doesn’t make exceptions for rape and incest. Gallup’s polling suggests that a whopping 80 percent of Americans want to keep abortion legal, either entirely (32 percent) or with some restrictions (48 percent). Only 18 percent want it banned entirely — a position many Republicans are now forced to take. That should be a Democratic dream!
For almost five decades, Roe v. Wade has been established American law, guaranteeing the constitutional right of choice to all Americans. Even those Supreme Court justices now ready to toss that precedent aside have previously testified under oath during their Senate confirmation hearings that they believed Roe is established law that ought to be respected.
They lied.
They lied to the Senate, and they lied to us. The fact that most Americans on both sides of the abortion question understood them to be lies at the time they were told does not alter their character as lies. And those lies have been accompanied by multitudes of other lies, as lies tend to be.
For example, we have been told for most of the decades since Roe that the pro-life movement was not seeking an absolute ban on abortion, that of course reasonable exemptions would be allowed in cases of rape, incest, life of the mother or health of the mother. Of course it would not apply to ectopic pregnancies, or to pregnancies in which fetal defects would make it impossible for the baby to survive. To impose a ban in those situations would be barbaric.
Likewise, we have been reassured that a reversal of Roe would not mean a national ban on abortion, but would merely return the decision-making powers to the 50 states, which would each craft its own approach to the issue. We have also been told earnestly that post-Roe, no one would be seeking to prosecute those who sought abortions, out of sympathy for women placed in such a difficult situation.
But now, on the precipice of that change, all such reassurances are being abandoned. Congressional Republicans are preparing legislation to ban abortion nationwide. Laws already on the books in various states in anticipation of Roe’s reversal would outlaw not just abortion but the crossing of state lines to seek an abortion. Think of them as fugitive abortion laws. Bills are also moving in state legislatures to treat abortion as homicide, with pregnant women, doctors, nurses and administrators as murderers or accomplices.
And those three exceptions? Republicans who today dare to support allowing abortion in cases of rape, incest or life of the mother risk excommunication from their party, in yet another example of the party’s increasing radicalism. The only acceptable position now is to insist that human life begins at conception, and all else flows from that.
If human life begins at conception then any attempt to end that life must be treated as murder. If human life begins at conception then it doesn’t matter how that conception occurred – rape, incest — it doesn’t matter. A woman who was given no choice about whether to have sex is also given no choice whether to carry to term and give birth if that rape results in pregnancy.
“Oh, don’t worry,” we are told. “Rape rarely results in pregnancy,” which is false. But if those instances truly are rare, then surely we can allow an exception in those cases?
Ending Roe V. Wade will save more lives than masks or the COVID vaccine. Remember all the propaganda from the left about how saving just one life made lockdowns and mandates worth it? The way they treat abortion exposes that propaganda as the scam it always was.
Pfizer's New 80,000-Page Data Dump Is A Nightmare Pfizer tested their COVID vaccine on rats and then let pregnant women take it
You probably didn’t know that Pfizer dumped 80,000 pages of documents this week.
That’s because the American corporate media refused to cover it — and that’s because almost all of them took money from the Biden regime to promote the experimental vaccines and kill any critical coverage of them.
Anyway, it turns out that Pfizer’s COVID vaccine was not 95% effective: the data shows it has a 12% efficacy rate.
Let me repeat: 12%. That’s a “1” followed by a “2.”
But wait: it gets worse.
There were no human clinical trials to determine if the experimental COVID vaccines were safe for pregnant women. They were excluded from all the trials.
TheNo1Waffler @TheNo1Waffler Bill Gates on Covid 19.
“We didn’t understand that it’s a fairly low fatality rate & that it’s a disease mainly in the elderly, kind of like flu is, although a bit different than that.”
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Majority Say Abortion Should Be Mostly Legal
May 6, 2022 at 2:07 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
A new Pew Research poll finds
61% of U.S. adults say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, while
37% say it should be illegal in all or most cases.
MyballsMay 6, 2022 at 11:38 AM
Only an idiot( Roger) would brag about wage growth when the inflation rate is double it.
There's a reason why retirees are reentering the work force. The huge increase in rent costs among them.
Roger, stop being so radically underinformed.
Retirees are re-entering the workforce because of Bidenomics Reccession and systematic inflation.
Cali gave a link..
Always Wrong Roger clubbed like a baby seal again.
Solid jobs gains, but wages undershoot expectations
The April jobs report shows that the labour market continues to strengthen with non-farm payrolls rising 428k, the same as the number of jobs created in March. The gains were spread solidly throughout all sectors with manufacturing posting a 55k increase, retail 29k, trade and transport 104k and business services up 41k. Leisure and hospitality continued to grow strongly with employment rising 78,000 while once again it was that Federal government to be the only sector that lost jobs (-6k). Federal government employment is now down four out of the past five months.
While this is a good outcome markets may actually focus on other parts of the report. The unemployment rate held steady at 3.6% rather than dropping to 3.5% as expected, which in combination with a softer average hourly earnings figure of 0.3% month-on-month rather than the 0.4% consensus forecast (and slower than the 0.5% gain in March) may been taken as a signal of less inflationary pressures in the jobs market.
A lack of suitable workers will keep wages growth elevated
However, we don’t think this is the start of a new trend. The labour force participation rate fell quite sharply to 62.2% from 62.4% as 363,000 left the workforce. Consequently, the slower wage growth number might not last long as we know demand for workers remains intense. After all there are currently 11.55mn job vacancies in the United States while the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) reported 47% of companies having vacancies they can't fill. If there are even fewer potential employees from which to choose, wages will continue to be bid higher
Job Openings Soar
May 6, 2022 at 1:44 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 59 Comments
Associated Press:
“The economy now has, on average, two available jobs for every unemployed person. That’s the highest such proportion ON RECORD.”
Trump Wanted To Activate Generals In Order to Court-Martial Them
May 6, 2022 at 1:24 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 47 Comments
According to a copy of former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper’s memoir, A Sacred Oath, former President Donald Trump demanded that former Gen. Stan McChrystal and former Navy Admiral William McRaven be recalled into active duty so that they could be court-martialed for criticizing the president, TPM reports.
A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times
Esper, Mark T. (Author)
05/10/2022 Publication
Trump Out-Putins Putin
James Carville SAID: "Roe is over two to one in approval, and Alito and them said we don’t care, we’re not fair, and we don’t care."
He added:
“If this doesn’t motivate people, if this doesn’t get you going, then I can’t do anything to help you.”
The Republican Axis Reversing the Rights Revolution
May 6, 2022 at 11:42 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 127 Comments
Ron Brownstein:
“Since the 1960s, Congress and federal courts have acted mostly to strengthen the floor of basic civil rights available to citizens in all 50 states, a pattern visible on issues from the dismantling of Jim Crow racial segregation to the right to abortion to the authorization of same-sex marriage.”
“But now, offensives by red-state governments and GOP-appointed federal judges are poised to retrench those common standards across an array of issues. The result through the 2020s could be a dramatic erosion of common national rights and a widening gulf—a ‘great divergence’—between the liberties of Americans in blue states and those in red states.
“The only lever Democrats have to resist these efforts is their unified control of the White House and Congress. In theory, this allows them to pass federal legislation establishing a new floor of nationwide rights on voting, abortion, LGBTQ issues, and other areas.”
Running Against MAGA Extremism
May 6, 2022 at 11:06 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 58 Comments
Dan Pfieffer: “The Republicans are ... pushing one of the most unpopular, extreme agendas in modern political history. For all the handwringing about how Democrats can win the culture wars, it’s the Republicans who should fear a high-profile conflict on those cultural issues.
“And it’s not just the ‘culture war’ issues where Republicans are off base.
Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy stated that one of his first acts as Speaker would be to shut down the investigation into the January 6th insurrection, but that investigation is supported by two-thirds of Americans.”
Make abortion your side's number fucking ONE mid-term election issue, pederast.
Do it.
But be sure to tell those who wish to see legalized abortion made law that we have a legislative process to do exactly that.
Tight labour market to keep Fed hiking 50bp
Fed Chair Jerome Powell this week talked of optimism that labour supply will return, but we have seen little sign so far and we are sceptical that things will change soon. As such we continue to expect a tight labour market that will keep upward pressure on employment costs. In an environment of decent corporate pricing power where firms can pass cost increases onto customers, this is a key reason why we believe inflation will be very slow to fall back to the 2% target. This would be fully consistent with the Fed continuing to hike interest rates in 50bp increments for at least the next three meetings.
My governor is seeking federal funds to make New York an abortion vacation destination.
'Infanticide-land'
The sheer amount of pure fucking evil that must exist within a person to seek this is truly breathtaking.
No, it shouldn't be the Democrats number one issue, but it should be an IMPORTANT one.
Women in particular need to take a strong stand on this, and they are realizing it.
Too many of them were so sure Hillary would be elected that they didn't bother to vote.
If they had known the election of Donald Trump would lead to this and other setbacks, that woman abuser never would have been elected.
Omg, just when you think Roger has done a victory lap for being stupid he posts again.
Their is an abundance of able bodied workers.
Women like Jane.
So when will one leftist admit the Biden/Harris ticket is dead in 2024?
Thomas, Barrett, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch and Alito have been DOXXED:
https://www.ruthsent.us/
The Labor Partisipation Rate dropped.
"Thomas, Barrett, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch and Alito have been DOXXED:"
Not a word about it from the Mouth of Biden. He has yet to condemn the threats on the lives of the USSC Justices and their families.
Fri 6 May 2022 02.30 EDT
For a member of one of the most august and venerable institutions in American public life, Samuel Alito has provoked an astonishing outpouring of jarring adjectives this week. “Appalling and heinous” – Vanity Fair; “acidic and extreme” – Slate; “dreadful and repugnant” – the Washington Post; “scathing and dismissive” – Los Angeles Times.
The strong words were directed at the draft ruling written by Alito and leaked to Politico that, barring a possible but unlikely change of heart by any of Alito’s conservative peers on the US supreme court, will eviscerate federal abortion rights in America.
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Though millions had been bracing themselves for the court’s newly emboldened rightwing majority to deliver a blow to Roe v Wade, the constitutional right to abortion that has been law of the land for half a century, Alito’s attack was so brutal and direct it still left many dumbstruck.
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“Roe and Casey must be overruled,” Alito wrote, referring to the 1973 landmark ruling along with its 1992 affirmation in Planned Parenthood v Casey. “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start.”
It is conceivable that some of the sharper edges of Alito’s devastating 98-page screed will be smoothed out before the final ruling is delivered in coming weeks. Other supreme court justices, notably Brett Kavanaugh, might demand as much in order to spare their own blushes.
But none of that will alter the fact that Alito will forever be known as the supreme court justice who destroyed a woman’s right to control her own body and who set the US on a regressive course pointing back to the 17th century
Roger is for physical harming the USSC Justices and their families.
Who leaked the USSC Draft.
When are they disbarred.
A new Pew Research poll finds
61% of U.S. adults say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, while
37% say it should be illegal in all or most cases.
Let me guess, Reverend?
Political.wire?
Did you "read the actual poll"
56% believe that it should be made illegal after certain date - 12% are wishy washy and only 31% believe it should be legal as a matter of simple choice.
The poll has no real differences than the other recent polls. Approximately a third of the country (31% in the Pew poll) wants abortion basically legal upon demand. About that same amount wants abortions illegal (38% in the pew poll) except for rape, incest, health of the mother or baby. The rest want some limits as to time.
It's how these polls are "semantically presented" that makes the difference. But at the end of the day, you do not change people's opinions from semantics.
In the end only about a third of Americans really want abortion on demand.
The leftist shift.
Mandate shots and mask because it is not your body.
Now all Americans are in sole charge of their body.
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
Roger is for physical harming the USSC Justices and their families.
The alky favors murdering all who disagree with him politically.
Rrb is mad at Germany because Hitler is not in charge 🙄
, Slovakia, May 6 (Reuters) - Germany will deliver seven self-propelled howitzers to Ukraine, Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht said on Friday, in a further reversal of a longtime policy not to send heavy weapons to war zones due to the country's Nazi past.
The howitzer delivery, on top of five such artillery systems the Netherlands had already pledged, was another sign of Berlin heeding pressure at home and abroad for it to help Ukraine fend off a Russian invasion.
The heavy weapons will come out of Bundeswehr inventories and be delivered as soon as they emerge from maintenance over the next weeks, Lambrecht and her chief of defence, general Eberhard Zorn, told reporters in the Slovak town of Sliac.
"We have to confront the Russian aggression, we have to support Ukraine in this fight, in this war," Dutch Defence Minister Kajsa Ollongren said at a joint news conference with Lambrecht.
Kyiv had requested 12 howitzers and swift training to quickly deploy the weapons in the battlefield, Ollongren said at Sliac air base, where the Germans and Dutch have set up Patriot missile defence batteries since Russia invaded Ukraine.
The training of the first group of some 20 Ukrainian troops on the Panzerhaubitze 2000 howitzer is expected to start next week in the German town of Idar-Oberstein, Zorn said. These soldiers had experience in operating Soviet-built howitzers.
Ukraine's pleas for heavy weapons have intensified since Moscow has turned its fiercest firepower on the country's east and south, after failing to take the capital Kyiv.
They can hit targets 25 miles away
The alky favors murdering all who disagree with him politically."RRB
True
Scott..Louisiana lawmakers have advanced a bill that would abolish abortion in the state, grant constitutional rights to "all unborn children from the moment of fertilization" and classify abortion as a homicide crime.
Of a woman goes to another state, she will be charged for murder and can be extradited to Louisiana and be put to death
Reverend...
take a look at this link from the Pew Poll
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2022/05/06/americas-abortion-quandary/pf_05-06-22_abortion-views_0_7/
Will give you a better understanding than "reading a headline"
Because we do not create any law that say abortion will be legal in "most circumstance" - we create exceptions.
James, so you want The USSC to use a poll to decide the Law?
Nope
God you are brain dead.
"Of a woman goes to another state, she will be charged for murder and can be extradited to Louisiana and be put to death"
Learn about "jurisdiction ".
Of a woman goes to another state, she will be charged for murder and can be extradited to Louisiana and be put to death
This is a LIE.
ATLANTA (AP) — A judge in Georgia on Friday found that U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is qualified to run for reelection, finding that a group of voters who had challenged her eligibility failed to prove she engaged in insurrection after taking office. But the decision will ultimately be up to Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
Before reaching his decision, state Administrative Law Judge Charles Beaudrot held a daylong hearing in April that included arguments from lawyers for the voters and for Greene, as well as extensive questioning of Greene herself. He also received extensive briefing from both sides.
State law says Beaudrot must submit his findings to Raffensperger, who has to decide whether Greene should be removed from the ballot.
A Raffensperger spokesperson said in an email that the secretary of state had received Beaudrot’s recommendation and “will release his final decision soon.”
The challenge to Greene’s eligibility was filed by voters who allege the GOP congresswoman played a significant role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot that disrupted Congress’ certification of Joe Biden’s presidential election victory. That puts her in violation of a seldom-invoked part of the 14th Amendment having to do with insurrection and makes her ineligible to run for reelection, they argue
Run from your Lies Roger.
Go to topic 6
With two bills filed in the ongoing legislative session and significant pressure from religious leaders, Louisiana could see an end to the death penalty this year, though it remains a longshot.
There have been several attempts in the last several years to eliminate capital punishment in Louisiana, but the efforts have repeatedly come up short. As of 2018, the death penalty was still fairly popular among Louisiana's residents, though it's been more than a decade since the state's last execution.
Learn about "jurisdiction ".
The dumb fuck probably heard it from Joy Reid or on The View and instantly believed it.
If I cross the border and murder someone in Vermont, I'm in trouble with Vermont authorities, maybe Federal authorities, but NOT NY authorities.
CNBC
The losses Friday came despite an April jobs report that showed a gain of 428,000 jobs, more than the 400,000 expected by economists surveyed by Dow Jones.
One weak area of the report was the labor force participation rate, which was little changed month over month and remains 1.2 percentage points below its pre-pandemic level. Economists believe that a recovery in participation could help stem the rise in wages and, by extension, inflation.
“If we are to get a soft landing, we are going to have to see a recovery in participation at a pretty rapid clip,” said Luke Bartholomew, senior economist at Abrdn.
The losses on Friday put the three major indexes in danger of finishing lower for the week despite starting with three straight positive sessions.
Roger , you don't care how often you are wrong.
All three Indies finished down for the week.
The year is a disaster.
Merand Garland announced on Thursday that the Department of Justice is launching the Office of Environmental Justice. It speaks volumes about the priorities of this administration.
There are so many major problems in the country right now, and this is their concern.
It’s likely that this is just to remind the left how committed Biden is to fighting climate change. And of course to politicize the language around the topic and criminalize dissent.
Breanne Deppisch reports at the Washington Examiner:
DOJ launches new Office of Environmental Justice
The Justice Department is launching a new Office of Environmental Justice, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced on Thursday, which will seek to redress health risks from climate change faced by minorities and low-income people in the United States.
“Although violations of our environmental laws can happen anywhere, communities of color, indigenous communities, and low-income communities often bear the brunt of the harm caused by environmental crime, pollution, and climate change,” Garland said at a news conference on Thursday.
“For far too long, these communities have faced barriers to accessing the justice they deserve,” Garland said, adding that the Justice Department “will prioritize the cases that will have the greatest impact on the communities most overburdened by environmental harm.”
Cynthia Ferguson, an attorney who currently works in the department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division, will be the acting director of the new office.
NBC News has more:
The Biden administration has asked Congress for $1.4 million for the office. Shalanda Young, the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, recently told lawmakers that the Justice Department “absolutely needs the tools to make sure all Americans are treated equally under the law even when there are environmental issues.”…
After environmental criminal referrals dipped during the Trump administration, President Joe Biden issued an executive order in January 2021 directing the attorney general to “ensure comprehensive attention to environmental justice throughout the Department of Justice.”
You can guess where this is going.
Would it be too much to expect the DOJ to deal with actual crime?
They’re no different than some Scientology true believers blathering about thetans, and LRH, and OT-VII, etc.
The vile Dumb-o-crats have thoroughly corrupted the word “justice,” by predictably overusing it and appending it to every single one of their corrosive policy aims and propaganda narratives, to lend the gloss of moral legitimacy to their manifestly totalitarian ethos and agenda.
I emphatically reject every single one of the Dumb-o-crats’ contrived propaganda phrases and their entire lexicon, including, but, not limited to: “social justice;” “racial justice;” “economic justice;” “environmental justice;” ” ‘trans’ justice;” “equity,” “diversity and inclusion” (TM); “person of color;” “black and brown bodies;” etc., etc.
Scott’s favorite legal service.
Legalinssuction
The April jobs report has just been released, showing unemployment staying steady at near-50 year lows, nearly where the country was before the pandemic. 428,000 jobs were created in the month, as CNBC reports. 8.3 million jobs have been created since Joe Biden has been President.
Economists are praising the results.
University of Michigan economics professor Justin Wolfers, a New York Times contributor, says the labor market is “just motoring along,” and adds: “It’s hard to see where all that recession talk is coming from. This is a recovery with a lotta momentum.”
“Average earnings rose 10 cents/hour. Earnings are up 5.5% over the past year,” adds New York Times economics reporter Ben Casselman.
Economist and professor at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, Jason Furman, the former chair of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), says the news is “another sign that the underlying inflation trend may be lower than I thought and coming down.”
He adds that average hourly wage growth is increasing but slowing:
Meanwhile, Wolfers sums it up, suggesting Americans accept the good news.
And on social media, many are tagging the good news with #BidenBoom.
The states where the most people are quitting their jobs have these ... ›'Rooting Against America': Fox News Blasted for Being 'Giddy' over ... ›The jobs market favors workers for the first time in a half-century. No ... ›
Roger moves to topic 7
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
Scott’s favorite legal service.
Legalinssuction
You could use a dental service as good as Professor Jacobson is a constitutional law professor, alky.
Abortion is the most effective form of birth control and without it our republic will fall....
https://twitter.com/i/status/1521332493538009089
Imo if Pence and Harris are the two candidates Pence would kick her ass.
At a gala Thursday night for an anti-abortion group, former Vice President Mike Pence took aim at sitting Vice President Kamala Harris over remarks she delivered at a pro-choice group’s annual gala two nights earlier.
“I say with the lives of 62 million unborn boys and girls ended in abortion since 1973, generations of mothers enduring heartbreaking and loss that can last a lifetime: Madame Vice President, how dare you?” Pence told anti-abortion activists at the annual gala for Carolina Pregnancy Center in Spartanburg, S.C.
On Tuesday, Harris spoke at the Washington gala for EMILY’s List, where she sharply criticized Republicans and conservative justices on the Supreme Court after it was revealed that the high court was poised to overturn Roe. v. Wade.
Mike Pence
Former Vice President Mike Pence. (Ryan M. Kelly/AFP via Getty Images)
“Women in almost half the country could see their access to abortion severely limited,” Harris said of the forthcoming decision. “In 13 of those states, women would lose access to abortion immediately and outright. Those Republican leaders who are trying to weaponize the use of the law against women, well we say, ‘How dare they! How dare they tell a woman what she can do and cannot do with her own body! How dare they!’”
https://legalinsurrection.com/
Being highly educated doesn't matter because they are nuts
Being highly educated doesn't matter because they are nuts
Ah, so the Ivy Leaguers are only impressive when they agree with you and your pre-conceived leftist notions.
Scott.
Scott!
SCOTT!!!
I LOOK AT BOTH SIDES SCOTT!!!
LOL. Fucking hack.
John Hayward
https://twitter.com/Doc_0/status/1522602486380511232
Ron DeSantis snapped the Left's corporate fascism over his knee like he was breaking a twig. No conga line of woke corporations lining up to join the Operation SCOTUS Leak abortion freak-out. For the first time in years, they're nervous about following lefty lunatics off a cliff.
Hope that is true. Last time I checked Disney had lost about 63 Billion dollars in market cap.
da da da, da da da
They own woke ESPN too
Tomorrow is May 7th, 2022
Roger was to get married.
Wife#3
Bidenomics
"A growing percentage of retirees are returning to work. The percentage of retired workers re-entering the labor force has been rising. In March, 3.15% of retirees returned to work"
Roger always is spectacularly wrong.
LMAO:
The latest version of the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA), which would effectively make abortion a statutory right, scrubbed references to transgender and nonbinary people’s pregnancies as well as language related to “reproductive justice.”
Earlier versions of the bill used language tying race and transgenderism to the issue of abortion in its non-binding “Findings” section. Democratic Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal, the bill’s sponsor, told Politico the language had been removed from the bill due to objections from some Democrats.
The newest version removed referenced to white supremacy and gender oppression as well as notes clarifying that its provisions applied to anyone with the “capacity for pregnancy” including “transgender men, non-binary individuals, those who identify with a different gender, and others,” according to Politico.
“Reproductive Justice seeks to address restrictions on reproductive health, including abortion, that perpetuate systems of oppression, lack of bodily autonomy, white supremacy, and anti-Black racism,” a previous version of the bill said.
“This violent legacy has manifested in policies including enslavement, rape, and experimentation on Black women; forced sterilizations; medical experimentation on low-income women’s reproductive systems; and the forcible removal of Indigenous children,” it said.
https://dailycaller.com/2022/05/05/democrats-white-supremacy-gender-oppression-abortion-womens-health-protection-act/
Reproductive Justice seeks to address restrictions on reproductive health, including abortion, that perpetuate systems of oppression, lack of bodily autonomy, white supremacy, and anti-Black racism,” a previous version of the bill said.
“This violent legacy has manifested in policies including enslavement, rape, and experimentation on Black women; forced sterilizations; medical experimentation on low-income women’s reproductive systems; and the forcible removal of Indigenous children,” it said.
Anyone explained to Green Beret Blumenthal who Margaret Sanger is ?
https://dailycaller.com/2022/05/05/democrats
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Again rat showing how afraid he is of his own shadow!!!!! I can see rat in Texas being part of a fetus possy chasing women who break the abortion laws for cash.......asshole
Being highly educated doesn't matter because they are nuts
They have actually received awards in the past for being non-partisan and informative. The only people who would not appreciate what they do are those who do not like to be told what the law actually is or hear an opinion different from Jeffrey "masterbation" Toobin...
Quinnipiac University survey from late last year, found that just 16 percent of Texans said abortion should be illegal in the cases of rape and incest. Fully 77 percent said it should be legal — in a socially conservative, red state. And even Republicans opposed making it illegal in those circumstances by a 2-to-1 margin.
In opposition to Roe, many in the GOP want bans on abortion even in cases of rape and incest. That’s in Kentucky, Arizona, Oklahoma and Florida. Talk about a wedge issue! J.D. Vance, the avatar of Republican illiberalism, favors no exceptions.
A healthy political party would thrill at this opportunity — a winning issue where the GOP has gone off the deep end. In the states likely to “trigger” total bans if Roe falls, “43 percent of adults on average say abortion should be legal in most or all cases, while 52 percent say it should be illegal in most or all cases.” That’s a highly winnable fight. In states which might re-enact some kind of abortion restrictions, “an average of 49 percent of adults say abortion should be legal in most or all cases, compared with 45 percent who say otherwise” — even more promising terrain for Democrats.
So why the preference for terror, fear and rage on an issue where the public remains deeply conflicted? I have two thoughts. The first is that many Democratic elites really do not trust the American people. They have a resilient belief that a huge segment of this country is rotten, bigoted, racist and, yes, deplorable. Here’s the president today: “I’m not prepared to leave [abortion policy] to the whims of the public at the moment in local areas.” Whims of the public! We used to call that democracy.
But the truth is that resiliently divisive and difficult moral issues — and abortion is absolutely one of them — require unsatisfactory political resolution in a healthy democracy. Some rights granted by courts are, or quickly become, uncontroversial — like buying contraception, marrying someone of another race, or of the same sex.
Other rights never gain this kind of legitimacy — like abortion, for the obvious reason that many believe a life is at stake. And the cost of imposing one side’s extreme view on everyone else and taking the question out of politics altogether is huge. It has delegitimized our democracy and the courts, has helped spawn a powerful reactionary movement from Reagan to Trump, and empowered unhinged Christianism. Sometimes I wonder if we’d be a far more liberal (and saner) country today if the left hadn’t overreached so massively in 1973, on such weak constitutional grounds, and refused to budge so doggedly thereafter.
The flip-side to this, however, is the opportunity we now have to repair that damage. Abortion, if we wanted, could actually be an issue that restores health to a polarized polity by forcing us to come to various forms of compromise over an issue we’ve debated entirely in the abstract until now. We can no longer punt it.
States can pursue different legal regimes, from the very permissive to the very restrictive, and the results can be weighed up. This fall, we have elections across the country. Remember federalism? This is a near-perfect reflection of its essential role in keeping this country in one piece. And, in my view, all of this actually calls the cheap, moralizing bluff of the religious right. Now they actually have to enforce and defend draconian bans — and see popular revulsion grow, unless they too can come up with a compromise. There’s a reason the GOP has been somewhat quiet about the substance of the leak. The smart ones are worried.
Leftists, if they could only snap out of their disdain for democracy, can make a powerful case for moderation on this issue against right-extremism. To do that, of course, they will have to back some restrictions on abortion in some states — which some seem very reluctant to do — and even allow some diversity of opinion within their own ranks. There are forces aiming to prevent that — forces that Biden could confront if he hadn’t long been beaten into learned helplessness. But surely someone can take the initiative.
So let’s stop the hyperventilation and get back to democracy. Persuade people, if you can. Get them out to vote. Stop demonizing those you disagree with and compromise with them in office, however difficult that may be. What Roe did was kickstart the extreme cultural polarization that has defined and blighted the last few decades of American politics. Maybe the end of Roe can mark the beginning of a return to living together, and negotiating a way to make that bearable.
The center, in other words, is now wide open. Will anyone — anyone — occupy it?
Nick Freitas
https://mobile.twitter.com/NickForVA/status/1522266681845989377
Elon Musk should buy Planned Parenthood and turn it into a place where they actually help people with parenting instead of ensuring they won't be parents.
and take the 150 million plus that they spend on democrats (US government gives then over $500 million a year) and instead use it for patients
Andrew Sullivan
To say that a leaked draft of a Supreme Court ruling prompted an elite meltdown would be a gross understatement. This was a culture war 9/11. “I have typed and deleted a great many comments,” Roxane Gay tweeted. “What do you say when nine people can dictate what happens to your body? It’s ridiculous and hateful.” The Atlantic’s Adam Serwer, always the subtle one, announced that the court had abolished the entire 20th century. Yep: no more suffrage for women! Jim Crow now!
Taking the arguments of abortion opponents seriously was never an option: “Stripping women of their humanity and rights isn’t a consequence of the ‘pro-life’ agenda, it’s the entire point,” declared Jessica Valenti. Rebecca Traister confessed: “My teeth have been chattering uncontrollably for an hour. Bodies/minds are so weird. Like, not euphemistically — actually chattering. Audibly. And full shaking body. Though otherwise wholly, rationally, well and truly expecting it.”
Going further, freshly-minted critical gender theorist, Jennifer Rubin, argued that any restriction on abortion rights is a violation of secularism: “The right-wing justices and their supporters appear ready to reject one of the Founders’ core principles: that religion shall not be imposed by government edict.” Kurt Andersen went old school and worried about a papist cabal: “It really is kind of remarkable that only one in five Americans call themselves Catholic, but of the Supreme Court majority apparently about to permit abortion to be outlawed, all but one are Catholic and that one was raised Catholic.” Then there’s Vox’s Ian Millhiser: “Seriously, shout out to whoever the hero was within the Supreme Court who said ‘fuck it! Let’s burn this place down.’” Fuck it! I’ll do it live!
Kamala Harris also found her voice:
Those Republican leaders who are trying to weaponize the use of the law against women. Well we say, ‘How dare they?’ How dare they tell a woman what she can do and cannot do with her own body? How dare they? How dare they try to stop her from determining her own future? How dare they try to deny women their rights and their freedoms?
The premise here is that all women support abortion rights. But there is no serious gender gap on this question. In fact, a majority of “pro-lifers” are women, not men. So Harris is effectively saying: how dare women be allowed a voice in this debate?
Within minutes of the SCOTUS leak, moreover, we were told it means that before long, interracial marriages will be banned … in a country where 94 percent support them! Imagine Clarence Thomas divorcing himself by jurisprudence. Here’s Traister again: “Voting rights were gutted in 2013. Marriage equality. Griswold. Loving. Don’t ever listen to anyone who tells you such fears are silly or overblown.” Actually, listen to them — if you can hear them over Traister’s permanent rage-tantrum.
What strikes me about all of this is not the emotive hyperbole — that’s par for the course in a country where every discourse is now dialed to eleven. What strikes me most in these takes is the underlying contempt for and suspicion of the democratic process — from many of the same people who insist they want to save it. How dare voters have a say on abortion rights! The issue — which divides the country today as much as it has for decades — is one that apparently cannot ever be put up for a vote. On this question, Democrats really do seem to believe that seven white men alone should make that decision — once, in 1973. Women today, including one on SCOTUS? Not so much.
Is this the case in any other Western country? No. Even the most progressive countries regulate abortion through the democratic process. In Germany, it’s illegal after 12 weeks of pregnancy — more restrictive than the case before the US Supreme Court that bars abortion after 15 weeks. European countries where the legal cutoff is even more restrictive: Austria, Spain, Greece, Italy, France, Belgium and Switzerland. Abortion enshrined as a constitutional right? Not even in super-progressive Canada.
The United States, in other words, has been an outlier in the past and, if Roe is reversed, will return to a democratic politics of abortion, in line with most of the Western world. And so I wonder: why is this so terrifying for pro-choicers?
If you look at polling, there is very little support in America for a total ban — let alone one that doesn’t make exceptions for rape and incest. Gallup’s polling suggests that a whopping 80 percent of Americans want to keep abortion legal, either entirely (32 percent) or with some restrictions (48 percent). Only 18 percent want it banned entirely — a position many Republicans are now forced to take. That should be a Democratic dream!
I see roger has completely given up trying to post cogent thoughts
just whole articles
ROFLMFAO !!!
and he even has trouble remembering to include the link with them
old age ?
well at least long posts are so easy to skip over
For almost five decades, Roe v. Wade has been established American law, guaranteeing the constitutional right of choice to all Americans. Even those Supreme Court justices now ready to toss that precedent aside have previously testified under oath during their Senate confirmation hearings that they believed Roe is established law that ought to be respected.
They lied.
They lied to the Senate, and they lied to us. The fact that most Americans on both sides of the abortion question understood them to be lies at the time they were told does not alter their character as lies. And those lies have been accompanied by multitudes of other lies, as lies tend to be.
For example, we have been told for most of the decades since Roe that the pro-life movement was not seeking an absolute ban on abortion, that of course reasonable exemptions would be allowed in cases of rape, incest, life of the mother or health of the mother. Of course it would not apply to ectopic pregnancies, or to pregnancies in which fetal defects would make it impossible for the baby to survive. To impose a ban in those situations would be barbaric.
Likewise, we have been reassured that a reversal of Roe would not mean a national ban on abortion, but would merely return the decision-making powers to the 50 states, which would each craft its own approach to the issue. We have also been told earnestly that post-Roe, no one would be seeking to prosecute those who sought abortions, out of sympathy for women placed in such a difficult situation.
But now, on the precipice of that change, all such reassurances are being abandoned. Congressional Republicans are preparing legislation to ban abortion nationwide. Laws already on the books in various states in anticipation of Roe’s reversal would outlaw not just abortion but the crossing of state lines to seek an abortion. Think of them as fugitive abortion laws. Bills are also moving in state legislatures to treat abortion as homicide, with pregnant women, doctors, nurses and administrators as murderers or accomplices.
And those three exceptions? Republicans who today dare to support allowing abortion in cases of rape, incest or life of the mother risk excommunication from their party, in yet another example of the party’s increasing radicalism. The only acceptable position now is to insist that human life begins at conception, and all else flows from that.
If human life begins at conception then any attempt to end that life must be treated as murder. If human life begins at conception then it doesn’t matter how that conception occurred – rape, incest — it doesn’t matter. A woman who was given no choice about whether to have sex is also given no choice whether to carry to term and give birth if that rape results in pregnancy.
“Oh, don’t worry,” we are told. “Rape rarely results in pregnancy,” which is false. But if those instances truly are rare, then surely we can allow an exception in those cases?
and other than the "pastor" having his posts stuck on all bold it looks like everything else was working well today
maybe it's just that Goddard is now blogging in all bold ?
Republican leaders of this era are liars 👏
He is a very conservative man 👨
Catturd ™
https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1522184290733379585
"The Democrat party is the party of weak men and unhappy women."
- Tucker Carlson
FACT CHECK - TRUE
and no biologists
https://www.rawstory.com/conservative-supreme-court-justices-lied-to-the-senate-and-they-lied-to-us/
Robby Starbuck
https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/1521548909079937024
Ending Roe V. Wade will save more lives than masks or the COVID vaccine. Remember all the propaganda from the left about how saving just one life made lockdowns and mandates worth it? The way they treat abortion exposes that propaganda as the scam it always was.
lots of new Covid vaccine data is coming out
and it's scary
Original intent
Women can't vote or own property.
Slavery was legal.
You really want to MAGA 1776?
1781
for instance:
German Study: Number of Those Suffering Severe Complications After Taking COVID Vaccine Is 40 Times Higher Than Previously Recorded
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/german-study-number-suffering-severe-complications-taking-covid-vaccine-40-times-higher-previously-recorded/
Pfizer's New 80,000-Page Data Dump Is A Nightmare
Pfizer tested their COVID vaccine on rats and then let pregnant women take it
You probably didn’t know that Pfizer dumped 80,000 pages of documents this week.
That’s because the American corporate media refused to cover it — and that’s because almost all of them took money from the Biden regime to promote the experimental vaccines and kill any critical coverage of them.
Anyway, it turns out that Pfizer’s COVID vaccine was not 95% effective: the data shows it has a 12% efficacy rate.
Let me repeat: 12%. That’s a “1” followed by a “2.”
But wait: it gets worse.
There were no human clinical trials to determine if the experimental COVID vaccines were safe for pregnant women. They were excluded from all the trials.
None. Zero. Zilch. Nada.
Instead, they tested it on 44 rats.
continues:
https://emeralddb3.substack.com/p/pfizers-new-80000-page-data-dump
No wonder they tried to hide it for 75 years
TheNo1Waffler
@TheNo1Waffler
Bill Gates on Covid 19.
“We didn’t understand that it’s a fairly low fatality rate & that it’s a disease mainly in the elderly, kind of like flu is, although a bit different than that.”
VIDEO:
https://mobile.twitter.com/TheNo1Waffler/status/1522271917696294912
WOW, he's sounding like Trump now. Only 2 years later.
after he brought America to its knees
he should be prosecuted
along with Fauci
Roger do you believe the USSC should rule on issue based on polling?
Get shots and Wear masks = not your body.
Kill a baby = my body
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