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Is Congress that subservient?
I saw part of a speech by Kamala Harris, talking about abortion. According to the VP, if Donald Trump is elected, Congress will pass a bill outlawing abortion coast-to-coast, which Trump will sign. But if Harris is elected, Congress will pass a law mandating abortion access in all 50 states, which she will sign. Does she really think that Congress passes whatever legislation the president wants?
I can see a Congress pushing or not pushing a piece of legislation, depending on who the president is. For instance, let us say that the majority of Congress wants to shut down all oil drilling in Alaska. If Trump is the president, they would be wasting their time, as he would surely veto it. If Biden or Harris is president, a presidential signature is likely, so the members would try to pass it if they had the votes to get it past a Senate filibuster. But the same Congress that would vote for a nationwide abortion ban if they thought they would get the president’s signature, would not pass a bill that does the opposite, just because the president would sign that one. Everyone on this website already knows this, but any voters who were hoping they would hear less ridiculous BS from Harris than they have heard from Biden or Trump is in for disappointment.
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Just to repeat. the Democrat party spew out rhetoric on abortion that makes urban / suburban single women crazy. We need to take it away from them. That is the best you are going to do. Not forever, but for like 12 years.
But think of all the government jobs that would be created in pursuit of such goals.
The solution, then, is to give the regulators more money.
They also don’t want to mess up the cushy arrangement they have with the administrative state for providing constituent services.
If every fertile woman had Plan B pills on hand at all times, abortion would go to zero.
I forget all of the details, but they have proven ` twice that Planned Parenthood has abortion quotas. They aren’t genuinely set up to get any substantial revenue any other way.
From what I hear, those stories have been completely overblown by the pro-abortion crowd in order to scare people into coming over to their side.
But contraceptives have been around forever and it hasn’t stopped birthing persons (HA!) from having abortions. “The Pill” has been available for 60 years.
The founders had better congressmen.
They will lie and spew it anyway
Women had been having miscarriages since the beginning of mankind. Abortion was always used for convenience. I had a miscarriage. There are medical procedures for that. It is called a “spontaneous abortion,” a term that distinguishes the real thing from that which isn’t natural but elective.
I said the government puts them in every fertile woman’s home. You don’t take it unless you have unprotected sex. Government force = zero abortions.
Really?
All GOP say 10 weeks no matter what? I would say let’s try it before we conclude that.
I still think it won’t work. The government in many localities tries to give free shelters to homeless persons and in most cases the homeless reject them. The Federal Government gives away free condoms to help stop the spread of HIV. It has not been anywhere near 100% effective in preventing the spread.
They don’t want any limit on their sacred “right” to kill their own human creation. The culture of death. The ugly side effect of promiscuous, hedonistic sexual behavior.
OK I can’t take this any further, but I don’t understand why you wouldn’t take a pill instead of getting an abortion. I think you have 72 hours to do it as well,
Well, that’s not good. I had no idea.
They have proposals to make it legal up to delivery and even one to off the baby after delivery. Some immigrants to our country would be offing every female.
I understand that, but in my opinion, that’s just political-speak. Who is going to get into that position? Doctors. Nurses. Abortion consumers.
How *** I *** interpreted your words was, they like abortions as if some kind of good or positive comes from it. This is getting over my head because it’s so weird and I can’t relate to it.
I cannot envision the circumstances where somebody likes getting an abortion. Going to a clinic and having doctors and nurses…well… or swallowing the RU-486 pills and whatever happens after that.
– Democrats propose all sorts of laws they want to federalize rather than leaving abortion to states. Some don’t want any restriction on how late in the pregnancy an abortion can occur.
-Democrats want to reqyuire doctors, nurses, and pharmacists to be involved in enabling abortions even when they have a moral objection to abortions.
-Abortions are already being done just because a test or scan has determine the baby is a girl, not a boy.
It isn’t something anyone likes doing. It is something they want, after the fact birth control for convenience. It is an abhorrent procedure. It involves inflicting great pain on a baby that can feel pain. They have videos of the baby suffering great pain. They must kill it through one of several inhuman methods before aborting it. Far too many people who take a casual stand on it have never really researched how it is done.
How does this actually happen?
Again, I say this is political-speak. It’s not going to happen.
This is bad, but it doesn’t change anything. They would force this, no matter what time limit you put on it.
In the United States? Really?
My understanding is a lot of downs syndrome babies get aborted.
Fair enough, but that is not the way I interpreted what you wrote.
I still say, if every woman had a bunch of Plan B pills, we wouldn’t be talking about this.
This is not some theoretical political-speak. Oregon, New Mexico, Colorado, Minnesota, Michigan, Vermont, New Jersey, district of Columbia, and Puerto Rico have all legalized abortion up to the moment of birth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gestational_limits_for_elective_abortion_in_the_United_States.svg
I know that, but when is it going to happen? It’s just political fodder.
It’s happening right now! Those laws are already on the books. They are performing legal abortions up till the moment of birth in those States. This has been happening in the U.S. even before Roe vs. Wade was overturned. It’s called “late term abortion.”
If a woman quit being an unpaid whore, it wouldn’t happen.
I used to think a lot of things couldn’t happen.
Probably true, too. As to the other “in the United States” question, we are importing cultures that don’t share our western values.