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Brings me no joy to say this looks and feels like a nursing home.
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@Kid-Chocolate said in US Politics:
Brings me no joy to say this looks and feels like a nursing home.
I think it brings you a little joy.
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@Kid-Chocolate one of the techniques for speech writing is to enlarge and bold text where you want the speaker to emphasise words.
Writing YOU makes it easier for him to know what actions pertain to him at a glance.
That being said; he's clearly at a stage he should be enjoying retirement.
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Clay Travis comments, “I have never seen instructions like this for any person leading any meeting I’ve ever attended in my life. I bet you haven’t either.”
He wins the bet.
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@ACT-Crusader I am ignorant when it comes to the American legal system but this appears to be a step backwards. I noticed the conservatives keep referencing abortion is not in the constitution. There must be so many laws that are not in there like Gay Marriage etc.
Did anyone read Freakanomics where the authors suggest roe vs wade resulted in a massive drop in crime as they believe many unwanted children end up on the criminal justice system and once they could access abortion there were far less vulnerable kids who go on to offend. Also similar story in Romania when they banned abortion and ended up with all those horrible orphanages.
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Sad sad news, undermining decades of women's rights. Of course those most affected will likely be poorer women who can't afford to move out-of-state for an abortion - how can they manage? Even though it's been coming, the impact today feels ... shattering
And one of the conservative judges has already called for the court to go further per this CNN article. Just unbelievable in 2022:
Justice Thomas, who explicitly called for the court to reconsider its rulings striking down state restrictions on contraceptives, state sodomy bans and state prohibitions on same sex marriage.
“Because any substantive due process decision is ‘demonstrably erroneous,’” Thomas wrote, “we have a duty to ‘correct the error’ established in those precedents.”Ruling opens door for reconsidering rights to gay marriage and contraception
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@antipodean I didn't see the forum rule one had to post on rugby first, my apologies
Cliquey here?
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I do always find it interesting how we all share our opinions based on our upbringing, religious and political beliefs. Very few of us ever comment from a position of experience or a full understanding of the issue.
Unless you have personally experienced the choice around abortion it is very hard to understand the complex issue fully.
I cannot ever know what it is like for a woman or couple in that situation as I have never gone through it.
The facts are in Australia over 70,000 woman choose to have an abortion each year with 35% under the age of 24.
If we want to lower that number perhaps far more needs to be done on education, contraception and the availability and ease of access to condoms and the morning after pill.
The cynic in me can't help but wonder how many of those 70,000 pregnancies were the result of the male not wearing a condom and pressuring the female into non protected sex.
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@Nat said in US Politics:
@Frank I'm guessing you're not a woman from THAT reply?
Please correct if I got you wrongOut of interest what would your response be to the many millions of strongly pro-life women?
Studies have actually found women are overall more likely to be pro-life than pro-choice (just, like 51% vs 49%).
The issue is far more complex than it just being a woman's rights issue.
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@No-Quarter Is that from America?, this study showed "When looking at gender globally, 73% of females and 69% of males were in favour of access to abortion. " https://www.ipsos.com/en-au/majority-australians-report-unwavering-support-abortion-access
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@chimoaus it probably was, I'd have to look up the study again, but the point remains there is a big portion of women that are strongly pro-life. The way it gets framed by a lot of people is it is men taking away women's rights, but it's not obvious to me that if it was left entirely to women the outcome would be much different depending on country.
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@No-Quarter Fine, it's not complex: Let every woman make her own choice as an adult, but don't impose morals on others who may not share them
Healthcare is not so freely available in the US to poorer people. There isn't the kind of public healthcare safety-net like in NZ, UK, most of Europe
I was reading this article in the LA Times, perhaps more with an eye to understanding mortality rate impacts on women who can't afford healthcare (rather than the intertwined race aspect in the US)
(https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-06-24/black-women-abortion-roe-v-wade-maternal-mortality)
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