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Takes two to tango.What's your point with this?
Teenagers have been doing that for years. Deanda has explicitly stated his daughters will not be using the pill, because he's raising them in a traditional Christian mindset - where nearly all women use contraception in that demographic. So, he is undertaking a decision and lawsuit that personally does not affect him to set a standard across the entire country.His position appears to be that underage girls shouldn't be able to get contraception without the health provider informing the parent. That seems perfectly reasonable to me. What's your problem with it? Are you in favor of minors having sex and hiding it from their parents?
If his daughters were being personally harmed, or some other issue was brought up with the drug, I would understand it. Such lawsuits were not even taken seriously with oxycontin, but this was immediately taken up by a hand selected judge.
Human development is an integral part of the pro life position. Heartbeats, brain activity, the 'Silent Scream', etc.Why would any of this matter? Cats have brains and hearts and yet clearly aren't people.
Is an embryo a full human being? In what way? They have to implant first, and half the time they don't. Is that considered murder, or accidental homicide?Well then maybe you can go find some people who are hypocrites about this and yell at them. I would fully be on your side.
Of course, but I believe unique human lives come into existence at conception. The person I was responding to clearly doesn't believe that but still suggests that elective abortions should be restricted. I asked him why, since I've yet to see any coherent viewpoint along these lines. The two coherent viewpoints are either it's a person or it isn't, and if it isn't, there's no apparent reason why you need to restrict elective abortions.
Deanda wants to stop a federal program that doesn't meaningfully affect him or his daughters. He did it because he was offended, and picked a specific judge for his needs. Had his daughters been harmed, or those of any other family, I'd understand his position. He has stated, openly, 'I am raising my daughters in the traditional Christian faith'. If his daughters are not using birth control as teens, so what? It doesn't affect them. Yet he didn't like the law, and sought out the judge. It's deliberately political.No, that isn't what he's asking for. What he's asking for is literally quoted by you in your initial post. He wants to cease a federal grant program from providing grants to organizations that don't offer parental consent. This won't stop birth control from being handed out to anyone. Those organizations will continue to exist and continue to hand out said birth control, they just won't get federal funds to do so.
We will have to wait until the 24th, when the deadline is reached. You might have faith in the courts, but such optimism was also held for the SB8 law in Texas. That became law.Once again, this is the legal system as it exists, and its the legal system decisions like Roe inculcated. Forum shopping is a time honored tradition in our court system, as is people bringing out ludicrous lawsuits, and judges issuing nationwide injunctions and the like. I question whether or not this judge will even ban the drug, since the legal jurisprudence all but ensures that he will overturned. But in either case, this reaches into issues regarding our legal system that are really beyond this thread to discuss.
If the decision is appealed, it goes to the 5th circuit. And the 5th circuit might rule as Kacsmaryk did on the BC issue.
(And I'm aware judge shopping is done on both sides, it was done on a wide scale pre Obergefell)
Then it is safe to say Tennessee law doesn't see that life begins at conception, but at implantation. If it was to remain consistent, IVF would be banned across the board. This loophole is usually from pure ignorance, but it is amusing nonetheless. It shouldn't matter if it's a test tube baby or not. If murder is murder, IVF is murder.Once again, the question isn't whether or not life begins at conception, but what Tennessee's law states on the issue of IVF embryos. This is a legal question regarding current law, not larger moral questions. The fact is, the focus has been on abortion for so long, no one has really even tried to parse this issue of IVF embryos. Sure its been brought up, but the legal focus has been on abortion primarily because of Roe. So it will be a while before actual jurisprudence on this subject begins to truly form.