'Trump did this’: Supreme Court blocks Biden emergency abortion mandate in Texas

Conservatives did this. Trump was the tool they used, but this would have happened under Jeb! or any other Republican president as well.

Don't let the rest of the party off the hook. They all own this.

Democrats did this by not codifying

This kind of gaslighting should not be tolerated. Everyone take a moment and block that troll.

That's like saying that the burgler that bypassed your locks by smashing a window is fully justified because you didn't put cages over the glass. Reproductive rights were protected by 50 years of precedent. Roe was established case law for decades and was overturned by a court that rejected how the judicial branch was working and has worked for centuries by ignoring precedent, accepting a case on weak standing to challenge it, and arguing that the established case law was wrong on shakey arguments.

Don't let right-wing nuts lie to you about objective reality.

That’s like saying that the burgler that bypassed your locks by smashing a window is fully justified because you didn’t put cages over the glass.
There is no lock. There is no broken window. There is no burglar, because this person was invited inside the house. The Democratic Party has been rife with "Pro-Life" candidates for decades. The Dems on the judiciary committee going back 40 years have rubber stamped Pro-Life candidates in the Judiciary Committee.
Dems will put the GOP in their fucking cabinet. The GOP isn't breaking in, its being invited in.
Don’t let right-wing nuts lie to you about objective reality.
If you wait on Federal Dems to save you, you're going to be left extremely disappointed.
- Cool story, bro (or sis, or comrade, or whatever, idk you). Was it the Democrats 40 years ago that discarded ages-old decorum, stared down stare decicis, and said "nah, that ain't for me," to then threw out established case law, casting doubt on the legitimacy of 1/3 of the co-equal branches of government? Oh, no? It wasn't? It was a group of far-right so-called "Christians" put on the SCOTUS by Republicans?
  Yeah, that's certainly how I remember it happening, and, you know, objectively true, so thanks anyway.
How can you simultaneously claim that abortion was protected only by precedent, yet the democrats did everything in their power to preserve it?
- Oh you're trying so hard to build a strawman! How adorable.
  Roe was established case law. Reproductive rights were settled. Blaming Democrats when the actions of Republicans baselessly dismissed it is moronic.
- Logically, the answer would have to be that Democrats lack the power to preserve it. Which happens to be true because:
  Ordinary legislation would not be sufficient to overturn state laws regarding abortion due to the 10th Amendment, and even if it was the 2/3 Republican court would overturn it anyway.
  A constitutional amendment would require a 2/3 majority that Democrats will not have in this lifetime.

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I’m a nurse and there is no amount of money you could possibly pay me to work in Texas again. That entire state is hostile towards healthcare workers.

...and women, and LGBTQ folks, and logic, and laws...
I got a friend who visited Texas over the summer and loved it, now she wants to move over there. I wonder if it's actually that bad or maybe it is and she just never saw it.
- "the healthcare in Texas is terrible!"
  "Well I had a friend go to Texas and not visit a hospital or engage with the healthcare system at all, so I don't know why I'm even typing this comment..."
- I lost power for a week during the winter storm of 2021 when I lived there. They barely have a functional power grid. It’s like a third world country there.
- If you’re white, wealthy, and sterile Texas has excellent healthcare
- She visited for a couple weeks. Living somewhere is very different. Especially if she didn’t leave the blue cities.

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I'd like to take this opportunity to blame Citizens United and the lack of regulation on the advertising industry.

Social media companies seek greater engagement to increase their main source of revenue: advertising. Extremist opinions on topics like abortion receive greater engagement, so algorithms optimize accordingly.

I think a lot of people forget the automatic abortion bans specifically set up for the overturning of Roe v Wade. Republicans have wanted this for over 50 years. It's like pointing a remote control rocket launcher at your neighbor's house and then lobbying to get rocket launcher related domestic terrorisms legalized. Okay, maybe a bit extreme, but still your pregnant neighbor dies with an unborn child in either case, so...

If you know that, so do Democrats. Yet they did nothing to protect it.
Obama: “Protecting Roe is not a priority.”
- I mean ig, big blunder on their part for sure, but not exactly the people who are murdering women by banning emergency abortions so what's your point
- "The thing the Republicans did was terrible, but Democrats did not do enough to prevent it, so I'm going to support the Republicans!"
  Make it make sense.

We need to post birth abort some of these Supreme Court justices

Won't someone rid us of these meddlesome justices?

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Democrats did this by refusing to codify decades ago.

I agree both major parties had a hand in this directly or indirectly. But only one has any chance of changing this for the better.
- Which one, the one that directly revoked women's rights or the one that did nothing to prevent it from happening?
As if these zealots wouldn't have ruled it unconstitutional or slowly weakend it with a series of cases anyway. See recent decisions gutting Voting Rights Act, weakening the Clean Water Act, Campaign Reform Act of 2002, Dodd-Frank and other federal laws.
- Look, republicans suck ass, it’s true. But if Dems had codified Roe into law either time they had the supermajority (two chances in the last 20 years), then the corrupt SC wouldn’t have been able to do jack shit. If dems had any integrity, they would shoulder a significant amount of the blame for this issue, because they had their chance and deemed it “not a priority.”
- So what I'm hearing is if Democrats had codified it, Republicans would have come along and got it struck down. But to fix the problem we need to elect more Democrats to get it codified?
  No one else sees the circular reasoning behind this?
"The guy who did the arson isn't to blame, it's the firefighters for getting there too late"
- If you really wanted to stop houses from burning down you'd build a fire house on every block and make the Dems pay for it.
- It's the ones claiming to be firefighters
You really do make a habit of being on the bottom with your terrible takes don't you
Decades ago, the parties were much different than today. There were pro-choice Republicans and pro-life Democrats. Only one time in recent (2000+) memory did the Dems ever have the 60 votes necessary for codifying Roe. They used that two-ish week window to pass the ACA.
And that's not even touching on the differing public approval of abortion.
- The ACA which should be noted was desperately needed at the time unlike Roe which was known to be at risk but not nearly as immediate.
  I’m not happy Roe is dead. The fact is though that without a constitutional amendment Roe was always on borrowed time with the constant attacks on it, and I don’t believe that there is any time after the issuance of the bill of rights that an amendment protecting abortion would work, and in the form of the bill of rights it would’ve had to be a robust privacy amendment that just happened to protect abortion.
- They used that two-ish week window to pass the ACA.
  The ACA was passed in March 2010. Obama took office more than a year earlier. The bill to codify Roe was written in 2003, all that it needed was a vote, which Pelosi refused.
  Your revisionist history is wrong.
Up until the court decided to start ignoring centuries of legal tradition that is the bedrock of our legal system and threw out stare decisis the decision was actually more secure than a specific law.
Any law codifying it can be challenged on many grounds, especially the 10th amendment. It could easily have been struck down as unconstitutional because the federal government has no power to pass a law affecting this issue, since the constitution doesn't grant it.
Only a constitutional amendment would have been likely to survive a court willing to do what this one has done, and there is zero possibility the Democrats could have passed one.
- Several members of Congress thought a law was good enough, Obama thought it was good enough when he promised to sign the freedom of choice act on day one in office. Then 3 months later said it was no longer a legislative priority.
It's a bold take to blame the side that failed to prevent something, rather than the side that actually did the thing.
- When the side that failed to prevent something had the power to prevent it, they are to equally to blame
Does that mean Republican representatives and senators are inherently useless?
They would have had to put it in the constitution.
Any congressional laws this supreme court would have declared unconstitutional.