A Far-Right Court Just Admitted a Truth That Abortion Foes Want to Hide

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A Far-Right Court Just Admitted a Truth That Abortion Foes Want to Hide
slate.com

When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, it claimed to be removing the judiciary from the abortion debate. In reality, it simply gave the courts a macabre new task: deciding how far states can push a patient toward death before allowing her to undergo an emergency abortion.

On Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit offered its own answer, declaring that Texas may prohibit hospitals from providing “stabilizing treatment” to pregnant patients by performing an abortion—withholding the procedure until their condition deteriorates to the point of grievous injury or near-certain death.

The ruling proves what we already know: Roe’s demise has transformed the judiciary into a kind of death panel that holds the power to elevate the potential life of a fetus over the actual life of a patient.

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So it’s Biden’s fault that republicans are opposing anything the democrats are doing?

You’re playing right into their game with that kind of thinking.

It's my fault for listening to what Biden said he could?

I should have known he would blatantly lie to get elected and then immediately act like I'm an idiot for thinking what he said was true?

But also...

This time I should listen to Biden and it totally won't happen again....

Have you ever thought about why voter turnout goes down for incumbents?

Not always.

Trump got more votes in 2020 than he did in 2016 and there's no reason to believe Biden isn't going to get more considering it's an exact repeat.

Biden has been fixing Trump's dumpster fire and most reasonable people can see that.

Total votes almost always go up due to population increase over the last 4 years...

When people talk about turnout, we're talking about percent of eligible voters.

That says overall turnout increased 7%< not that trump increased his by 7%... Not sure if you noticed, but he lost 2020...

And that's not even getting into how trump did what Republican voters wanted, Biden hasn't .

So even if Trump's went up, what does that have to do with Biden's?

But I'm tired of not noticing your username till I'm roped into conversations.

I'd rather just never see it again, so that's what I'm doing. Don't expect anymore replies, I'll never see them.

Have a good day u/SatansMaggotyCumFart

Your comment:

Have you ever thought about why voter turnout goes down for incumbents?

My response:

...voter turnout rose 7 percentage points over 2016, resulting in a total of 66% of U.S. adult citizens casting a ballot in the 2020 election.

So you move goalposts and get pissed off for being called out and block me? En