One of Trump's top lawyers has already said the plan is to stay quiet on abortion through the campaign—then use the Comstock Act to impose a nationwide abortion ban in 2025. Not only a ban on medication abortion, but ALL abortions, in all 50 states. www.nytimes.com/2024/02/17/u...
Read literally, Comstock prohibits the transportation or "delivery" of "every article or thing designed, adapted, or intended for producing abortion." Trump's lawyers intend to wield the law as a ban on all abortion, *including procedural abortions in clinics.* They've said so!
I get that, it's just WILD.
That's the kind of thing you learn about if you do a deep-dive into PT Barnum (yes, really) if it's not mentioned in passing while your US History courses race through the Gilded Age. 🤷🏼♀️
This isn't quite true. The Comstock Act was never invalidated by the courts. It's still law, technically. In a post-Dobbs world, the DOJ could start using it.
Knowing how bad he is at opsec I fully expect him to brag all campaign about how they're going to keep quiet about their plans to ban all abortions so it won't work against them on voting night.
Yeah probably, but it won’t really matter. The problem is that normy voters do not watch his speeches, or read his Truth Social ramblings. They watch CNN or read the NYT, and they will just mostly repeat the message that trump is not going to ban abortions.
Oh for sure. Your real problem isn't anything of substance or even rhetoric, it's that your entire news media has stacked the deck in favor of the worst possible people.
This means he has different messages for different populations. At some closed door fundraiser for ultra conservatives he will talk about the imminent victory over body autonomy, but in the general debates he will say nothing or infer that states rights will prevail.
Every ethical doctor, plant medicine specialist, and OBGYN NP in the US will find workarounds long before that happens. It’s not like another genocidal Biden admin will help. Roe and LGBTQ rights keep getting overturned on HIS watch and he keeps forgetting not to say he’s against abortion out loud.
I’m not trying to minimize how evil or challenging this will be, but there is no “good guy” here among the 2-party options. They’re both pure evil and against the health and autonomy of women.
See also: women having c-sections with no anesthesia or pain meds in bombed hospitals in Gaza, only to watch their infants starve and die screaming in their arms.
The real issue is that Trump is just a face, as awful as he is. The Heritage Foundation are the ones pushing the agenda and the vast majority of Republican politicians are inline with them.
We need to handle try the fascist party.
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I honestly don't understand why American women haven't started to burn shit down. They try that shit here, I am shooting myself on the steps of Parliament. WE WILL NOT GO BACK!!!!
I do believe people around Trump will try to make that happen, but FWIW, that also fits with a common storyline from 2016-20: “Traditional conservatives think they can get Trump to pursue a policy goal he doesn’t actually care about”. Sometimes they succeed! (Tax cuts, judges…) but not always.
Agreed! Aside from the unknown, his numbers are dwindling and will continue... hence his dialed up rage while panicking in a race against the clock to save himself. That's all he has along with his cultists. Add all factors plus new voters, I's, former R's, and Haley supporters... we've got this! 😉
I suggest we start investing in wire hangers then. Because legal or not, the abortions will be performed as needed. BTW, same under Biden, who lost R vs W instead of codifying it.
Yeah. Then we will have two conflicting lines of case law-the Rehnquist court commerce clause cases, which would suggest a nationwide abortion ban exceeds congressional power. And if the Dems push an abortion rights statute, the City of Boerne case law suggests that’s unconstitutional also.
