Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died at 87. - 🦀

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50,000 people out of a population of 67 million is virtually nothing. My point still stands that abortion plainly isn't a contentious political issue in Europe. The consensus that abortion should be readily available (with some restrictions here and there) was reached decades ago here, and the issue simply isn't on the public radar.

It's only in the US and Ireland where the subject still causes division, and it's being driven primarily by single-issue obsessives who lack the courage to accept the practical consequences of what they advocate.
As you mentioned before, I think in Ireland's case it's more blowback against the absolute stranglehold that the church has had on Irish society see things such as Magdalene Laundries as just one example. It's kinda like the super-strict dentist's child growing up to be a chocoholic in their adult years.
 
Y'know, it seems pretty likely republicans ram someone in. Lots of states are going to have contested vote counts that matter, and though the vote should ostensibly be 5-3 with the current setup, you-know-who would have just the biggest fucking stiffy imaginable if he could move the conclusive vote on electoral counts to 4-4.
 
As you mentioned before, I think in Ireland's case it's more blowback against the absolute stranglehold that the church has had on Irish society see things such as Magdalene Laundries as just one example. It's kinda like the super-strict dentist's child growing up to be a chocoholic in their adult years.
Didn't those places get up to actual baby killing? Like they straight up had closests full of dead baby skeletons and shit?
 
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We have assholes here who unironically call for post-birth sbortions, I shit you not.
Post-birth abortion has another name. Infanticide. Unless all murders that take place are now "post-birth abortions". I'm of the opinion that abortion is a very serious medical procedure that shouldn't be taken lightly (then again, I've known too many people where abortions went wrong and they were either infertile afterwards or dead).

RvW is most likely not going to be overturned.
That was Ralph "blackface" Northam. :thinking:
This coming from a Supreme Court Justice? Who is supposed to follow the constitution to the letter?

Maybe they should have advocated for justices interpreting the Constitution like their fucking job instead of legislating from the bench and conjuring up new laws out of thin air like their two biggest progressive victories, gay marriage and abortion.
 
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Not everyone shows up to marches in person, dude, you don't directly measure it compared to the total population. Just regarding the amount of people who show up, every single year they've done the march it's grown in size. And anything past first trimester being allowed only if there's a medical concern is more than "some restrictions here and there". It's stricter than 17 states, which allow abortions up to 22 weeks. It might be a settled issue, but it's sure as hell because their laws are stricter than Democrats probably imagine them to be.
The laws may be stricter, but that's practically irrelevant when the vast majority of abortions take place within the first trimester. The reality is that just about anyone in Europe who wants an abortion is able to get one, and public at large are totally fine with that. It's not a hotly debated issue here like it is in the US. If I were to limit myself to European media, I could probably go another 10 years without ever hearing about it.
As you mentioned before, I think in Ireland's case it's more blowback against the absolute stranglehold that the church has had on Irish society see things such as Magdalene Laundries as just one example. It's kinda like the super-strict dentist's child growing up to be a chocoholic in their adult years.
Ireland has definitely seen a massive cultural shift in my lifetime. I suspect that once the older generation dies off, it will resemble the rest of Western Europe.
 
The laws may be stricter, but that's practically irrelevant when the vast majority of abortions take place within the first trimester. The reality is that just about anyone in Europe who wants an abortion is able to get one, and public at large are totally fine with that. It's not a hotly debated issue here like it is in the US. If I were to limit myself to European media, I could probably go another 10 years without ever hearing about it.
My dude, if people were seriously suggesting unrestricted abortions up to birth (or even just viability) in Europe, it would be a hotly debated issue.
 
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I can’t decide whether them referring to the seats that Trump replaced as “stolen” baffles me or infuriates me. Like, does this person not understand how the process works? Or are they so far gone that they think it’s only a “real” nomination if someone they like makes it? I just... You Lost. Losers don’t get what they want.
 
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I can’t decide whether them referring to the seats that Trump replaced as “stolen” baffles me or infuriates me. Like, does this person not understand how the process works? Or are they so far gone that they think it’s only a “real” nomination if someone they like makes it? I just... You Lost. Losers don’t get what they want.
These are the same people that think whites "stole" land from the Natives.
 
I have mixed emotions on this. I did not want Biden to have a SC pick, but I imagine this death was not easy for her family. Ginsburg faced complication after complication, and spent those last few months (years?) working. It just seems like a slow, difficult way to go.
You actually think the corpse will win? I don't think so. Mind you my horse is out of the race so IDGAF.
 
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