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Posts Tagged ‘abortion’
May 15th, 2022 - 5:39 pm § in Law and Courts, News Media
Dave Horsey explains Alito’s reasoning (cartoon)
Philly paper: None of the above
The Philadelphia Inquirer, which has endorsed Republican candidates in the past, is taking a pass this year. Of the 7 GOP candidates for Senate and 5 for governor, the paper went with “none of the above.” That’s partly because the GOP isn’t a pro-business party anymore, and p[...]
May 14th, 2022 - 10:33 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Is Britney Spears a murderer?
The singer just had a miscarriage (story here). In El Salvador, that would get her 30 years in prison (see story here). (Is this why El Salvadoran women are fleeing to the U.S.?) Under a Georgia law passed in 2019, women could be prosecuted for having a miscarriage (see story here). In Alabama, in 2[...]
Susan Collins called cops on chalk
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), who’s disappointed in nearly everything she votes for, but keeps voting for it anyway, called the cops because someone chalked a message on the sidewalk in front of her home asking her to “please” support women’s abortion rights. (See story here.) O[...]
How to score in a tight baby market
Justices fixing to erase Roe v. Wade from the law have spoken of wanting to increase the “domestic supply of babies” (details here). Apparently there’s a shortage. I didn’t realize there’s an adoption market similar to the real estate market — it’s not somet[...]
May 8th, 2022 - 7:34 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
GOP contradicts itself again
Republicans who control the Supreme Court appear poised to strike down Roe v. Wade, the 1973 abortion rights decision, on grounds the legality of abortion should be left to states. But along comes Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell saying Congress could arrive state laws allowing abortion. McConnell [...]
May 8th, 2022 - 7:00 pm § in Law and Courts
Anti-abortion group’s office torched
A Mother’s Day arson fire damaged an office in Madison, Wisconsin, housing a group that lobbies against abortion rights (see story here). A passerby spotted the fire and reported it around 6 a.m. Sunday. Investigators said molotov cocktails were thrown through the windows, and a threatening gr[...]
Can GOPers really stop abortions?
Making abortion against the law was tried before. It didn’t keep abortions from happening. The pre-Roe abortion bans are viewed in much the same light as Prohibition: If you make abortion illegal, all you’ll accomplish is create a black market for abortions. But much has changed since 19[...]
May 5th, 2022 - 3:59 pm § in Law and Courts
The issue that’s bigger than abortion
It’s true the conservative justices likely to overturn Roe v. Wade are right-to-lifers. But there’s more going on. While legal analysts like to refer to them as “strict textualists” (i.e., if the Constitution doesn’t explicitly state something, it isn’t there), it[...]
May 4th, 2022 - 8:23 pm § in Law and Courts
Justice Alito: Welcome back to the 1600s!
Lydia O’Connor, a Huffington Post reporter (profile here), writes a brutal takedown of Alito here. And why not? He deserves it. A condensed version, lightly edited for clarity, is below. “Alito repeatedly argued that Roe v. Wade was a mistake because, until 1973, banning abortion was sim[...]