@sonhouse said
@techsouth
People are now fighting to keep the idea that women can control their own bodies and not be under government control which is what killing Roe V Wade is all about. SCTOUS is now just an arm of the religious ultraright and has left impartiality behind in the dust.
There is that and there is also how we are viewed overseas, which I am sure you could care less a ...[text shortened]... men getting pregnant, you would be SCREAMING to high heaven if abortion rights were taken from YOU.
"Women controlling their bodies" is one narrative.
Another narrative is that abortion is murder.
If someone believes that abortion is murder, it seems like it would be their job to oppose it even if it were unpopular. I certainly wouldn't support killing an infant 1 day after birth because he was unwanted. It doesn't seem that different to kill an child 1 day before he'd be born. And BTW: US abortion laws are more liberal than most other places in the world. This latest change will probably make us more like the rest of the world rather than less like it.
Ironic that the left wants to force Covid vaccines to control people's bodies.
Also, it is ironic that in more and more places it is becoming illegal to merely offer psychological counseling to someone who wants to overcome unwanted same-sex attraction. We're not talking pills, nor operations. In some places even adults cannot pay for counseling to help them resist the temptations related to same-sex attraction (and I expect before long it won't even be legal to council a male minor that he is not a girl if he is tempted to feel that way).
From where I'm sitting, it sure seems like Democrats are the ones who want more control over people.
Just for reference, consider this recent announcement: https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/news/20220615/biden-boosts-lgbtqi-protections-bans-conversion-therapy
Odd that under current law, federal funds can be used to surgically remove functioning genitalia from a healthy adult, but federal funds cannot be used to council that person to accept the sex he or she was born with. And you think Republicans want to control people?
Is it your belief that left leaning SC justices dispassionately follow the law whether or not that aligns with their personal preferences and that right leaning judges just want to force their will on the people and have no interest in law?
I'm not here to argue against you if that's what you believe. But you should at least be aware that many on the right see it as just the opposite.