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Do the Democrats have the incentive to attack not only the court's conservatives but the court's legitimacy? It seems so
Let's hope its polling slump is permanent.
abortion
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Democrats in the Congress should enshrine abortion into law with even stronger protections
We need abortion rights based on equal protection rather than privacy or free exercise of the rights of physicians.
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The Republican Party overplayed its hand in Texas
A new abortion fight will mobilize a Democratic Party that has not foregrounded social policies so dramatically since 1965.
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Lawlessness is a feature of the Republican Party, not a bug
The five most conservative justices, and their allies in state legislatures, have devised a model for using a procedure called the “shadow docket” to weaponize lawlessness against court precedents they don’t like.
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Abortion is virtually banned in Texas. The upside? Roe still rules for now in the other 49 states
Overturning Roe would have affected national abortion coverage and abortion would have been immediately illegal in 13 states.
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By turning law enforcement over to 'abortion vigilantes,' Texas uses lawlessness to destabilize equal treatment under law
So far, it has the Supreme Court's blessing.
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Why do the people who desire bans on abortion desire bans on vaccine- and mask-mandates? The connection isn’t 'freedom'
They accuse pro-choice Americans of being evil as means of covering up the barbarous flesh-eating reality of their larger political project.
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Whatever happens to Roe, it will be the consequence of six conservative justices choosing to believe authoritarian lies
If the sanctity of an individual embryo’s life were as important as they say it is, a half-century-old anti-abortion movement would not exist.
Podcast
Matt Robison interviews the EB's Mia Brett: A Turning Point on Abortion in America
Abortion vigilantism? Yes.
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The 14th Amendment does not make abortion unconstitutional
There’s little evidence writers of the 14th Amendment considered fetuses or abortion or pregnancy or really even women.