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no_hypocrisy

(46,242 posts)
Thu Jan 2, 2020, 05:51 PM Jan 2020

39 GOP senators sign brief asking Supreme Court to revisit Roe v. Wade

39 Republican senators and 168 representatives signed an amicus brief on Thursday asking the Supreme Court to revisit and potentially overturn Roe v. Wade, which protects the right for women to seek an abortion.

The big picture: Roe v. Wade has, since the Supreme Court's landmark decision in 1973, served as a barrier against Republicans who have sought to restrict reproductive rights. But with the court's conservative majority and Trump in the Oval Office, right-leaning lawmakers have been testing the limits of the law.

A number of states have issued time restrictions on abortions in recent months, usually limiting the procedure to the first trimester of pregnancy.

Many cases are being challenged in the courts, with reproductive-rights advocates arguing that curbing the procedure is against Constitutional protections.

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39 GOP senators sign brief asking Supreme Court to revisit Roe v. Wade (Original Post) no_hypocrisy Jan 2020 OP
And So It Begins..... global1 Jan 2020 #1
A full page ad nykym Jan 2020 #2
Here we go... spanone Jan 2020 #3
How does it go..."One step forward, BigmanPigman Jan 2020 #4
AND... FiveGoodMen Jan 2020 #5
Call them all out StarfishSaver Jan 2020 #6
I guess Brown v Bd of Education will be next...NT sacto95834 Jan 2020 #7
Yep! -nt okieinpain Jan 2020 #13
Ask Sanders to explain how this fits with the "Democrats Hortensis Jan 2020 #8
Democratic Reps. Dan Lipinski (Ill.) and Collin Peterson (Minn.) also signed on. guillaumeb Jan 2020 #9
Frankly, those senators and reps can shove it up their tight asses... Guilded Lilly Jan 2020 #10
Whoo, whoo! Both of my Southern Baptist GOP Senators are in sinkingfeeling Jan 2020 #11
They've been campaigning on this issue for 30+ years, so i'm nonplussed. maxsolomon Jan 2020 #12

nykym

(3,063 posts)
2. A full page ad
Thu Jan 2, 2020, 05:59 PM
Jan 2020

naming all repug who support this piece of crap amicus brief needs to be done nation wide.
Expose them as the scum they are.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
8. Ask Sanders to explain how this fits with the "Democrats
Thu Jan 2, 2020, 06:23 PM
Jan 2020

are really just Republican-lites" fiction he sells. Given the 45+ years of this issue, he must have come up with some rationalization long ago, at least one that suits him.

Not to worry, of course. As he explains, when he's president he'll "appoint some justices" too. Good ones, not those Dem/Repub Gorsuch and Kavanaugh types President Clinton and a Democratic-controlled senate would have.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
9. Democratic Reps. Dan Lipinski (Ill.) and Collin Peterson (Minn.) also signed on.
Thu Jan 2, 2020, 06:44 PM
Jan 2020

Lipinski is my current Representative. Many of us are working to send him back to private life.

Guilded Lilly

(5,591 posts)
10. Frankly, those senators and reps can shove it up their tight asses...
Thu Jan 2, 2020, 07:58 PM
Jan 2020

Patriarchal, entitled, arrogant, ignorant males and gender disrespecting females can eat excrement and expire!

Yeah, I’m done with the vomitus anti-choice/anti-women bullshit.

sinkingfeeling

(51,482 posts)
11. Whoo, whoo! Both of my Southern Baptist GOP Senators are in
Thu Jan 2, 2020, 07:59 PM
Jan 2020

favor of ending Roe vs. Wade, from a state having about 26% of its children going hungry and living in poverty.

Of course, they fully support bombing 'others' or just starving them to death.

maxsolomon

(33,432 posts)
12. They've been campaigning on this issue for 30+ years, so i'm nonplussed.
Thu Jan 2, 2020, 08:04 PM
Jan 2020

For vast swaths of the voting populace, ending abortion is the only reason to vote for the Repukes.

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