I think we should ask the Supreme Court’s view about vegetarianism. Should people be required to eat a plant based diet or should people be allowed to eat meat occasionally? I am thinking of repainting my interior. I can’t decide on a color. Maybe the Supreme Court should dictate the color for all interior walls in America.
Who gives a damn what they think about Mifepristone? If you want to end a pregnancy this medicine will always be available through a black-market just like marijuana was before it was legalized and as alcohol was during prohibition. The court and government has no roll here other than to protect our right to decide without coercion.
The Comstock act needs to be repealed as the highest priority of Congress and the administration and the only way to do that is by electing a Democratic congress. I will do my bit.
The right wingers who support forced pregnancies to my knowledge, are the ones who have never been hungry a day in their lives, and have had all of their needs met. The right wingers view the poor, to be exploited for cheap labor and tortured or exterminated if they object.
Working to end human suffering is how to serve God, and the rich religious hypocrites cause human suffering, with their greed and lying and narcissism!
Too bad more Catholics aren't more like JFK was. The taxpayers have funded phony religions in America, and this is what we get in return. Organized crime that doesn't have a clue on what the purpose of government is supposed to do.
Guns and explosives and just about everything else can be shipped interstate, but medicine that prevents human suffering for the fetus, baby, child and adult will be banned! The reptilian brains are going back to the dark ages!
Since there are more female voters than male voters and half the male voters support abortion, there is no way Trump should be elected. Unless of course America has already drank the Kool-Aid of these religious hypocrites by being indoctrinated at a young age. Mental child abuse!
Perhaps Vice President Harris should get specific about this subject/history every chance she gets. Just because SCOTUS will likely take a pass at this time, she needs the voters to understand what future actions they might take. Time to show her chops as an Attorney General.
I just watched some young women interviewed on C-Span. They expressed the fact that women are half of the population and wanted to know why they aren't half of the Congress. Good. Damn. Question.
Can't think of a better reason to get rid of the filibuster---to assure women have the right to health care, family planning, and autonomy over their own bodies.
This country is becoming a real biiig mess, thanks to fake christians, selfish billionaires, corrupt scotus and GOP, maga morons and ZE BIGGEST ASSHOLE AND ROTTEN CONMAN, SERIAL RAPIST, LIAR AND DEGENERATE ORANGE PIECE OF STINKY DUNG. No need to name it anymore I believe. Lock them all ... they are demolishing democracy to replace it with pure evil fascism. Hitler would appear as an angelic altar boy when compared to the wannabe unhinged dictator in the making. Pew!
In 1973 the US Supreme Court made Roe versus Wade law protecting the rights of women to privacy in the office of their doctors. Roe versus Wade gave women the right to life liberty and once pursuit of happiness on their own terms with relation to their sexual lives and their own responsible decisions with whether to carry an errand pregnancy to term.
The Bishop's reaction to Roe v Wade was it immediate and condemnatory. Cardinal John Kroll president of the National Catholic Bishops of America denounced the decision as "bad logic and bad law" and called it an "unspeakable tragedy for this nation."B y coincidence,the Catholic Bishop's American newly formed act committee on pro-life activities held it's inaugural session the day after the court handed down the decision expressly speaking for the whole hierarchy, this Committee of Bishops " refuse to except the Court's judgment," and advised people "not to follow its reason or conclusions."
Women of America and the men that love them should finally finally follow the orders of the Catholic Bishops of America and just " not follow it's reasons or conclusions because they are so effectively Theocratic and Catholic and so totally against the Constitution of the United States, The Catholic Bishops of America in the United States should be totally disbanded, and the Catholic Church hierarchy of any kind be asked to leave the United States. After all these are all right wing citizens of Italy and have no place here. They're not only that Americans but they are anti-Americans. The Catholic Church firmly believe that the government of the United States should be under the control of the Catholic Church . They have believed this since the mid 1800s when Pope Pius IV declared against democracy in his Syllabus of Errors .
We need to Get these people out of our government. They do not belong here. That includes the six Catholic justices on the Supreme Court. They need to be gone. It is not the Catholic Church that leads our government. We are government of the people,by the people,and for the people. We need another Revolution in the United States and that Revolution is against the Catholic Church and any religious organizations that tries to run our government as well as any group that tries to protect it. The Catholic church in the United States has become a decisive evil
As a nation of free people we must "refuse to except the Court's judgment," and advised people "not to follow its reason or conclusions."
You can read more about the Catholic Church's political Antics against our government in the book called ,"Catholic Bishops in American by Timothy a Byrnes and a book called American freedom and Catholic Power by Paul Blanchard
The irony, of course, is that we are now 3,000 times more numerous on our finite planet than were our ecologically balanced sustainably sourced and biodiverse ancestral Hunter-Gatherer clan/band fellows just a few thousand years earlier, before our current swarm nearly obliterated Nature, leaving only 1-4% (depending on source) of the vertebrate biomass "wild" today. The very last thing our dear Mother Nature needs is further expansion of the human race. And those earlier ancestral clan/bands were necessarily matriarchal due to the obvious fact that men could wander far and wide in hunting parties, while the women were restricted to keeping the home fires burning/tending the dependent vulnerable young and elderly/tending the sick/gathering herbs.
Thus, it was necessarily the women who had to work together to protect the home base, constantly talk to keep the wolves at bay, and plan for the future endeavors of the clan/band. This order still exists today in many of our Native American clans/tribes. This order was destroyed when the Kurgan horseback warriors rode into today's Europe and established patriarchy by brute force (c.f., Marija Gimbutas) isolating and relegating women to their current second class position. What could go wrong? Everything?
On is almost too rich seeing pubic-hair-on- the-coke-can Thomas howling puritanical protestations against sane perspectives that recognize that there are issues far above the crippled emotional dysfunctions of the 'Comstock derangement syndrome'. But of course the bone of their beefing is control, fascist complete control, and how better than with the long proved finger-shaving shaming of the zealously radical religios providing ammo for the fascists on the highest court. Visualing burning at the stake, being put to the question, torturing natives for failing to be converted to puritan demands are not hyperbolies erroneously extended to present day America, they are simply a very real continuation of a abominal horror stretching back centuries, fed by recurring religious zeal. Snap, America.
Really . And these Republicans supported judges started this whole mess with their unconstitutional overturning of Roe v Wade. Now they are trying to justify their overturning of fifty years of settled law by bringing up the Comstock Act , written by a mad man , with whom they can identify.
Another freaking Narcissist wrote the law . Because his way is the only way . Just like Trump and his appointed Narcissistic judges.
We don’t need autocracy in this country to be furthered with this crew it’s already here.
Throw Ken Paxton and Greg Abbot on the pile. Both are autocrats and dangerous . Ken Paxtons charges in Texas were all just eliminated because he’s a powerful,corrupt criminal politician .
Who’s he remind you of ?
All you have to do to get rid of felony charges and any consequence thereof . You need to be a Republican ( Maga) you need to be white , and you will do best with
Serious corrupt practices
. Oh did I mention money , it does help
, a lot .
So tired of the Supreme corruption with the Heritage Foundation picks and the Maga mentality.
Just sick of it .
Get to vote in 2024 and work to change this bastardization of Law and Order made so accessible by the head Narcissist, DJT.
The courts cannot legislate morality - only legality. Morality is a philosophical concept. That is one reason why the Comstock Act is a joke and needs to be struck down asap. Abortion is very arguably a moral choice! It is "immoral" (a value judgment, not a fact or a universal belief) only in some religious views, and wisely, our Constitution mandates the separation of church and state (a specification currently being eroded by the vociferous "originalists").
Historically, claims regarding abortion's "immorality" rose in the later 1800s in the U.S for male power and connected financial reasons, and to subjugate women (patriarchy). When American doctors were trying hard to professionalize and solidify their authority, power and turf, they needed to cut the competition by legally abolishing the widely accepted practice of midwives (women!) performing abortions. The fledgling AMA did this by making abortion and MORAL and medical matter.
Prior to about 1880, abortions were commonly performed up until "quickening" - fetal movement sensed by Mom - which occurs in the 4th-5th month of pregnancy. Even the Catholic Church was in line with this! The universal belief: life begins at quickening.
The patriarchal and bigoted/racist impetus arose at that time too - during floods of immigrants to this country. The fact that mainly white Protestant middle and upper class women were having abortions troubled the male counterparts who feared that they, the 'real Americans,' would be swamped out by inferior interlopers. Of course, keeping women as birth machines also benefited patriarchal aspirations. See https://www.cnn.com/2016/06/23/health/abortion-history-in-united-states/index.html.
I wish I had something useful to add to this. The conservative Injustices squatting on SCOTUS need to vacate themselves from the high court for the sake of American democracy. They will bend and break anything their owners wish them to. Read "The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America" if you need a little more than just my word on it.
Thom Hartmann is the world's best diagnostician of a democracy's health - he knows the anatomy and physiology of this sacred body more thoroughly than anyone I could possibly imagine. And his bedside manner is next-level in discussing the status of the patient, as well as what steps need to be taken on the forever road to recovery.
As I said before the two main ways to not go extinct by not reproducing with your own prodigy is life time mate or groups of women being exchanged for other outside groups of females. Only one strategy needs men to control women. I guess the GOP want sex with women who have no right to refuse. So much for traditional family values in favor of the ways of hunter gathers.
I think we should ask the Supreme Court’s view about vegetarianism. Should people be required to eat a plant based diet or should people be allowed to eat meat occasionally? I am thinking of repainting my interior. I can’t decide on a color. Maybe the Supreme Court should dictate the color for all interior walls in America.
Who gives a damn what they think about Mifepristone? If you want to end a pregnancy this medicine will always be available through a black-market just like marijuana was before it was legalized and as alcohol was during prohibition. The court and government has no roll here other than to protect our right to decide without coercion.
The Comstock Act was just another law Democrats should have disposed of when they had the chance....but ignored.
The Comstock act needs to be repealed as the highest priority of Congress and the administration and the only way to do that is by electing a Democratic congress. I will do my bit.
It boggles the mind that this debate persists to this day. A perfect case for the separation of Church and State.
The right wingers who support forced pregnancies to my knowledge, are the ones who have never been hungry a day in their lives, and have had all of their needs met. The right wingers view the poor, to be exploited for cheap labor and tortured or exterminated if they object.
Working to end human suffering is how to serve God, and the rich religious hypocrites cause human suffering, with their greed and lying and narcissism!
Too bad more Catholics aren't more like JFK was. The taxpayers have funded phony religions in America, and this is what we get in return. Organized crime that doesn't have a clue on what the purpose of government is supposed to do.
Guns and explosives and just about everything else can be shipped interstate, but medicine that prevents human suffering for the fetus, baby, child and adult will be banned! The reptilian brains are going back to the dark ages!
Since there are more female voters than male voters and half the male voters support abortion, there is no way Trump should be elected. Unless of course America has already drank the Kool-Aid of these religious hypocrites by being indoctrinated at a young age. Mental child abuse!
Perhaps Vice President Harris should get specific about this subject/history every chance she gets. Just because SCOTUS will likely take a pass at this time, she needs the voters to understand what future actions they might take. Time to show her chops as an Attorney General.
I just watched some young women interviewed on C-Span. They expressed the fact that women are half of the population and wanted to know why they aren't half of the Congress. Good. Damn. Question.
Can't think of a better reason to get rid of the filibuster---to assure women have the right to health care, family planning, and autonomy over their own bodies.
This country is becoming a real biiig mess, thanks to fake christians, selfish billionaires, corrupt scotus and GOP, maga morons and ZE BIGGEST ASSHOLE AND ROTTEN CONMAN, SERIAL RAPIST, LIAR AND DEGENERATE ORANGE PIECE OF STINKY DUNG. No need to name it anymore I believe. Lock them all ... they are demolishing democracy to replace it with pure evil fascism. Hitler would appear as an angelic altar boy when compared to the wannabe unhinged dictator in the making. Pew!
In 1973 the US Supreme Court made Roe versus Wade law protecting the rights of women to privacy in the office of their doctors. Roe versus Wade gave women the right to life liberty and once pursuit of happiness on their own terms with relation to their sexual lives and their own responsible decisions with whether to carry an errand pregnancy to term.
The Bishop's reaction to Roe v Wade was it immediate and condemnatory. Cardinal John Kroll president of the National Catholic Bishops of America denounced the decision as "bad logic and bad law" and called it an "unspeakable tragedy for this nation."B y coincidence,the Catholic Bishop's American newly formed act committee on pro-life activities held it's inaugural session the day after the court handed down the decision expressly speaking for the whole hierarchy, this Committee of Bishops " refuse to except the Court's judgment," and advised people "not to follow its reason or conclusions."
Women of America and the men that love them should finally finally follow the orders of the Catholic Bishops of America and just " not follow it's reasons or conclusions because they are so effectively Theocratic and Catholic and so totally against the Constitution of the United States, The Catholic Bishops of America in the United States should be totally disbanded, and the Catholic Church hierarchy of any kind be asked to leave the United States. After all these are all right wing citizens of Italy and have no place here. They're not only that Americans but they are anti-Americans. The Catholic Church firmly believe that the government of the United States should be under the control of the Catholic Church . They have believed this since the mid 1800s when Pope Pius IV declared against democracy in his Syllabus of Errors .
We need to Get these people out of our government. They do not belong here. That includes the six Catholic justices on the Supreme Court. They need to be gone. It is not the Catholic Church that leads our government. We are government of the people,by the people,and for the people. We need another Revolution in the United States and that Revolution is against the Catholic Church and any religious organizations that tries to run our government as well as any group that tries to protect it. The Catholic church in the United States has become a decisive evil
As a nation of free people we must "refuse to except the Court's judgment," and advised people "not to follow its reason or conclusions."
You can read more about the Catholic Church's political Antics against our government in the book called ,"Catholic Bishops in American by Timothy a Byrnes and a book called American freedom and Catholic Power by Paul Blanchard
The irony, of course, is that we are now 3,000 times more numerous on our finite planet than were our ecologically balanced sustainably sourced and biodiverse ancestral Hunter-Gatherer clan/band fellows just a few thousand years earlier, before our current swarm nearly obliterated Nature, leaving only 1-4% (depending on source) of the vertebrate biomass "wild" today. The very last thing our dear Mother Nature needs is further expansion of the human race. And those earlier ancestral clan/bands were necessarily matriarchal due to the obvious fact that men could wander far and wide in hunting parties, while the women were restricted to keeping the home fires burning/tending the dependent vulnerable young and elderly/tending the sick/gathering herbs.
Thus, it was necessarily the women who had to work together to protect the home base, constantly talk to keep the wolves at bay, and plan for the future endeavors of the clan/band. This order still exists today in many of our Native American clans/tribes. This order was destroyed when the Kurgan horseback warriors rode into today's Europe and established patriarchy by brute force (c.f., Marija Gimbutas) isolating and relegating women to their current second class position. What could go wrong? Everything?
On is almost too rich seeing pubic-hair-on- the-coke-can Thomas howling puritanical protestations against sane perspectives that recognize that there are issues far above the crippled emotional dysfunctions of the 'Comstock derangement syndrome'. But of course the bone of their beefing is control, fascist complete control, and how better than with the long proved finger-shaving shaming of the zealously radical religios providing ammo for the fascists on the highest court. Visualing burning at the stake, being put to the question, torturing natives for failing to be converted to puritan demands are not hyperbolies erroneously extended to present day America, they are simply a very real continuation of a abominal horror stretching back centuries, fed by recurring religious zeal. Snap, America.
Really . And these Republicans supported judges started this whole mess with their unconstitutional overturning of Roe v Wade. Now they are trying to justify their overturning of fifty years of settled law by bringing up the Comstock Act , written by a mad man , with whom they can identify.
Another freaking Narcissist wrote the law . Because his way is the only way . Just like Trump and his appointed Narcissistic judges.
We don’t need autocracy in this country to be furthered with this crew it’s already here.
Throw Ken Paxton and Greg Abbot on the pile. Both are autocrats and dangerous . Ken Paxtons charges in Texas were all just eliminated because he’s a powerful,corrupt criminal politician .
Who’s he remind you of ?
All you have to do to get rid of felony charges and any consequence thereof . You need to be a Republican ( Maga) you need to be white , and you will do best with
Serious corrupt practices
. Oh did I mention money , it does help
, a lot .
So tired of the Supreme corruption with the Heritage Foundation picks and the Maga mentality.
Just sick of it .
Get to vote in 2024 and work to change this bastardization of Law and Order made so accessible by the head Narcissist, DJT.
These misogynists and theocrats are publicly shaming themselves. Effectively making sure Christo Nationalism is politically toxic.
The courts cannot legislate morality - only legality. Morality is a philosophical concept. That is one reason why the Comstock Act is a joke and needs to be struck down asap. Abortion is very arguably a moral choice! It is "immoral" (a value judgment, not a fact or a universal belief) only in some religious views, and wisely, our Constitution mandates the separation of church and state (a specification currently being eroded by the vociferous "originalists").
Historically, claims regarding abortion's "immorality" rose in the later 1800s in the U.S for male power and connected financial reasons, and to subjugate women (patriarchy). When American doctors were trying hard to professionalize and solidify their authority, power and turf, they needed to cut the competition by legally abolishing the widely accepted practice of midwives (women!) performing abortions. The fledgling AMA did this by making abortion and MORAL and medical matter.
Prior to about 1880, abortions were commonly performed up until "quickening" - fetal movement sensed by Mom - which occurs in the 4th-5th month of pregnancy. Even the Catholic Church was in line with this! The universal belief: life begins at quickening.
The patriarchal and bigoted/racist impetus arose at that time too - during floods of immigrants to this country. The fact that mainly white Protestant middle and upper class women were having abortions troubled the male counterparts who feared that they, the 'real Americans,' would be swamped out by inferior interlopers. Of course, keeping women as birth machines also benefited patriarchal aspirations. See https://www.cnn.com/2016/06/23/health/abortion-history-in-united-states/index.html.
I wish I had something useful to add to this. The conservative Injustices squatting on SCOTUS need to vacate themselves from the high court for the sake of American democracy. They will bend and break anything their owners wish them to. Read "The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America" if you need a little more than just my word on it.
Thom Hartmann is the world's best diagnostician of a democracy's health - he knows the anatomy and physiology of this sacred body more thoroughly than anyone I could possibly imagine. And his bedside manner is next-level in discussing the status of the patient, as well as what steps need to be taken on the forever road to recovery.
I think ejaculation should be outlawed because those are half-souls. And any woman who is ovulating who does not get pregnant should be in jail.
The Flying Spaghetti Monster is the biggest abortionist around, but then It wanted those souls in Hades.
As I said before the two main ways to not go extinct by not reproducing with your own prodigy is life time mate or groups of women being exchanged for other outside groups of females. Only one strategy needs men to control women. I guess the GOP want sex with women who have no right to refuse. So much for traditional family values in favor of the ways of hunter gathers.