The nearest abortion clinic – in Chicago – was too far away and too expensive for her mother to provide her with the procedure
This is what Republicans want for all of us.
If Republicans win the next election, they will institute a national abortion ban without exceptions for rape or incest.
If you want to stop this, the only way to do so is to vote for Biden. I really hope people understand this.
What it’s going to take is to vote in Biden, then whoever the Democrats run in 2028, 2032, 2036. Until enough of the Republican justices die in office that actual jurists can replace them.
That’s not the only way of stopping them.
This is the way.
It’s not even a way to stop them.
Biden has literally been president during this whole Roe v Wade overturning.
It’s so exhausting to see libs walk this line so close to being actual progressives, but not, all for their precious capitalism.
You’re never going to beat the system by playing within the rules it’s set you, the house always wins.Okay. Outline a reasonable action Biden could have taken to prevent the ruling.
He could have pushed to have it codified.
He could have also pushed student loan forgiveness for all borrowers instead of the bullshit means testing that got it shut down.
Without 60 votes in the Senate, shit, without 50, it codification of abortion rights wasn’t happening. And he did push loan forgiveness, the Supreme Court shut that down.
It got shut down because of the means testing he included. If he hadn’t excluded some borrowers it would have gone through.
Nope, it got shut down because the court ruled that it amounted to the executive appropriating money. Means testing is constitutional.
It wasn’t the means testing that shut it down, if anything it wouldn’t have made it as far as it did without the means testing. As it is, people were already complaining that it was a giveaway to wealthy folks who don’t need it. Take away the income limit and it would have less than zero chance of succeeding.
The president has very little power over legislative decisions. Yes, he could have used the bully pulpit to advocate for abortion legislation, but it would have accomplished nothing.
Why can’t Biden do something to safeguard abortion in his current term?
If he can’t do something on his current term, why will he be able to do something on his next one?
Biden doesn’t have the authority to safeguard abortion. He had the authority to veto Congress. Biden would veto a nationwide abortion ban. Trump or any other Republican would not.
Additionally, presidents appoint supreme Court justices in the event of a vacancy, or if Congress ever gets on board for expanding the court… do we’d need a Democrat in office if we’re ever going to reverse Dobbs.
Can’t he do it temporarily via executive order?
No. It isn’t in the scope of executive powers.
If there was a national law protecting the right to abortion, he could use executive orders to enforce that. But that isn’t the world we live in anymore.
It would take an act of congress, and the D’s don’t have the votes. Shitty but true.
Don’t bother, he’s from Lemmygrad and just wants to blame the Democrats for everything
Dude, I’m not even from the US. My question is, in my opinion, an obvious one, at least to an outsider to the US political system. Why do you have to vote him again, when he’s in power now?
Because presidents serve for a limited number of years.
Of which he had 4 in total to do something about abortions, so I fail to see how that’s an adequate answer
Well that’s different than what you asked before but ok. The president doesn’t create new laws. That’s the job of the legislature. Currently the republicans hold more seats in the house and in the senate there’s 48 Dem, 49 Rep, and 3 Ind. So not likely to produce anything about abortion other than trying to ban it. It doesn’t look like anyone else is going to be a real contender to run in Biden’s place and anyone from the republican side would clearly be worse and would greenlight any anti-abortion bills that legislature would try to pass. So the obvious and adequate answer is that when Biden’s term is up we are going to have to vote for him again because there are no better options and the legislature is not in a state that will work to protect pro-choice rights but is in a state where it could try to limit those rights. Also, Biden was sworn in on Jan 20th 2021 so he hasn’t had 4 years yet.
It’s a classic case of maintaining the status quo. He may not be able to codify abortion protection but he can at least stop the R’s from doing it.
Don’t bother, he’s from lemmy.world and just wants to blame the leftists for everything.
Whatever you say, fash
Of course, now that the baby is out the pro-lifers say that they can both go die in a ditch
The unborn are a convenient group to advocate for
Literally have to do nothing other than talk
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Ironically/sadly, many of these fundies are women.
And they are as well educated as women in remote villages in Afghanistan.
What’s the difference again? I forget, which ones are the ones that want women to cover up, will claim your clothes are the reason you got raped, and want to kill all trans people?
Por que no los dos?
Is this what they want? Ruined lives? Fucking idiots.
Yes, actually. Conservatism flourishes most when people are suffering, unhealthy and impoverished.
It is a plague in desperate need of a cure.
Yes. The cruelty is the point.
The poor are supposed to be punished via all sorts or laws that keep them poor, for the “crime” of being poor.
Kinda reminds me how in my country - Portugal - during the Fascist Dictatorship abortion was illegal but the daughters of the wealthy (and you could only be wealthy if part of the regime, so these were the very same people who made the laws) could just go next door to Spain to get an abortion whilst the rest (almost all of them, as there was crushing poverty in the country back then) couldn’t afford to.
Whilst the outright Evil of the people passing this kind of law is bad, it’s the hypocrisy that really makes it trully disgusting.
It’s literally what they want. You think that girl’s going to stand up for herself at work when she’s got a kid at home?
well shit. you nailed it, i was that kid at home and my mother beat the shit out of me to vent her frustrations from the apathy work gave her. what’s worse than being abused. seeing those around you foster that abuse because, lol single mother = prey.
god has a plan or whatever
In theory, they want the girl to give up the baby for adoption.
In practice, they instead often end up being shamed to keep it, and so on, and so on…
They want low wage workers. Now they have two, forever.
And the nurse’s comment on finding a 13 yr old pregnant? “What have you been doing?” For fucks sake, I hate the world.
Ah yes let’s slut shame the 13 year olds instead of doing our due diligence as mandated reporters. Smh.
and it’s her rapist’s child. a stranger nonetheless. These folks just lack humanity.
Sounds like a Republican’s dream
Wouldn’t they like to marry the girl to her rapist, because sex outside of marriage is a sin or something?
And it gives them an excuse to marry kids legally
Not in a monogamous society. Rapists don’t want to get tied down to only a single child wife. Also, there’s no dowry in our society for the rapist to take the burden of raising the girl off the parents’ hands.
If Republicans didn’t have children with an abused woman, would they have any at all?
An abortion is not something you should need to be able to afford. It’s not a luxury, it’s a (often necessary) medical procedure. So fucked up, all of this. I hope the family can achieve some semblance of happiness some day
This is just completely disgusting. When everyone failed her the law wasn’t even on her side. Say what you want about abortions in general, but the audacity that people have to make getting abortions under rape or complications political is just disgusting. My heart truly goes out to this little girl, and her family, but especially the little girl. I can’t imagine the amount of life altering trauma she has gone through, and how this is going to affect her for the rest of her life. This shouldn’t happen to anyone. What the fuck is wrong with people.
what’s really dark is most of the people around her or dealt with her case, likely have children, and instead of having empathy or being capable of putting themselves or their own kids in her shoes, they just let her suffer and give birth at 13…alas for humanity.
Exactly
The baby’s father is so proud he gave expensive cigars to all his fellow GOP congressmen.
Wow that is some serious bullshit right there. For the rest of this girls life she is going to have to share custody with the man that raped her.
They don’t know who it was. It was a complete stranger who raped her when she was playing in her yard. The police haven’t even investigated. He’d have to come forward first.
I am embarrassed to be American
is it worth it Republicans?
This is literally what they wanted, of course it’s worth it.
They think they haven’t gone far enough yet, not that the price to pay is too high. Not like they’re paying the price themselves, and they’re incapable of feeling empathy for people like this girl who are affected by their psychopathic legislation. If they themselves or anyone in their immediate family needs an abortion, they’ll go get one somewhere else because they’re good people and they have a good reason for it, unlike all those woke socialist Nazi sluts
As if she was their problem.
They only want control over her. The rest ain’t their problem.
Makes me sick, fuck that hellhole of a country.
News from
TexasUSA start to sound a lot like news from catholic Poland lately. I just can´t imagine this kind of fucked up shit is what Jesus wanted though /sThis news is from Mississippi, but same difference really.
Thanks, fixed it
I will fight my ass off to place my children into a conservatorship or even frame them for a crime if they ever consider moving to a place like Mississippi
