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If you can’t kill off a law, whittle away at it. Should Roe be overturned, abortion rights will cease to exist in Virginia.
Here is why there may not be a challenge to the restrictive clinic rules in Virginia.
Don’t try to reassure. It will no longer work. We can read the terrain. I have been voting for a Supreme Court justice for several decades. This presidential election was no different. President Obama did not disappoint.
You do a good job of describing how the games works…..if the Democrats can’t kill freedoms directly, they whittle away at them. It’s a strategy that has been VERY effective!
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this is the perfect example of eroding an existing, lawful freedom, don’t you see.
Don’t kill it directly, just whittle away at it.
@punchak
Regulation is the answer. Can’t get rid of guns cause of the 2nd Amendment so let’s regulate by permit, by training, my method of carry, by how scary a gun looks, etc..etc..
I’ve been saying this for a long time but people keep telling me on here that its “different”.
And that is why you should be equally offended that Roe has been whittled away at for years. Now there is an all out assault.
I do not want to be ‘reassured.’ I have known for several years what the plan has been. I believe Sideshow bobby let it slip or perhaps he planted it intentionally.
What I will never understand is why people who profess to want government out of their lives insist on telling other people what to do with their reproductive lives. I don’t want to hear about who pays for it either. That has been determined and is just silly …or stupid. Poor people need assistance with the financial end of contraception.
and abortions require (and should) waiting periods, education, counseling, etc.
Pat, I usually agree with you but not on this one. Why should an abortion require a waiting period? If a woman has an unintended pregancy do you seriously think that she has thought of anything else for weeks other than what her choices are going to be? Counseling is part of the procedure, at least in Virginia.
Waiting periods add expense, since many women must travel long distances to get to facilities that offer abortion services. Adding meals and lodging to the travel costs is just another way to whittle away at availability.
I agree about medical education, as would be done with any medical procedure. The patient should be told the process, what to expect, complications etc. That is just good medical practice.
I wonder if men would be willing to require a waiting period to get a vasectomy? I think any suggestion of a waiting period is paternalistic and patronizing.
“I think any suggestion of a waiting period is paternalistic and patronizing.”
To which I respond: “That’s what governments are for… get in a man’s way.” – Capt. Malcolm Reynolds
Not disagreeing…..it seems to be the way the game is played.
a lot of stuff hangs by a thread, with 4 conservatives and 4 liberals, and dumbass kennedy straddling the fence
A waiting period means the baby develops longer. Let’s not forget that after about week 3, the baby has nerve endings and can feel pain. So why would anyone advocate for a waiting period?
Also, the longer the mother waits, the more dangerous the procedure becomes.
I am the last one to advocate for abortion, but a waiting period would make the situation far worse.
the baby? you must be referring to the fetus. nerve endings and can feel pain? careful, that was a poor choice of words