When reading the headline I was worried that Ukraine had backslid into stupid conservative oppression. I'm not sure I'm relieved that I see its my own country instead. :(

Slavery is the same as abortion pills? Wow.

Nice strawman. Try again. I said you're arguing a person's freedom should depend on what state they are in. Slavers argued the same.

Regarding rights, more than half of the US is women. Many women also don’t support abortions.

And no one is forcing those women to get an abortion. They are free to live abortion free for their entire lives. No one is going to arrest them if they choose to not get an abortion.

Mail order abortion pills. Nobody will have to travel out of country for an abortion. That’s a moot point based on fear mongering.

I cited a specific case above where a woman was arrested in their own state for having abortion pills. Clearly the abortion bans are oppressing those women too and putting them at legal risk.

I was indeed incorrect about people being jailed related to abortion bans. Those laws and cases are stupid. Their laws should only apply to access and not after-care.

I agree that abortion bans are stupid.

I think people have relied on the federal government to protect them too much and let their individual states become radicalized. Now they have to be involved in effecting change within the state they live. In the long term I think this is a good step toward more progressive state governments.

So things like the Voting Rights Act of 1965 shouldn't have happened because it forced specific states to allow fair voting for racial minorities even though state laws in those targeted states were supported by the state residents?

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I was riffing off the OP post. We're exposed to ideas early in life (at school) that we don't understand the gravity of until much later.

Likely the article author (or editor) simple searched their stock photography subscription with the keywords "chinese text on smart phone" and went with the first result.

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By giving power to the states, you will always have some states that allow abortions and some that do not, hence why we have the problem to begin with.

That was the same defense used 200 years ago for justifying slavery in the USA. It was a bad argument then, and its a bad argument now when you're casually dismissing the rights and control of someone's own body.

Since each state is part of the same country, access to abortions will always be available, albeit at the cost of traveling to a nearby state.

And those that cannot afford to travel to another state? The poor. They are forced to bring to term children they don't want (and possible cannot afford). I appreciate you raising this point as it underscores and argument of mine against abortion bans.

Abortion bands are bans only for the poor. The rich can travel out of the country without a thought. The middle class could do the same with a 2nd mortgage on the house. The poor are the only ones without assets to tap of any kind that could get them to a safe abortion.

There was a lot of fear of people going to jail or getting in trouble for doing this, which hasn’t happened.

The facts would disagree with you:

• Lizelle Gonzalez was arrested and charged with murder for using abortion pills in 2022 in Texas
• Brittany Watts was charged with murder for having a miscarriage in Ohio

We’re too big of a country to not take a more tribal approach to laws.

And yet we have a system that establishes laws at a Federal level to grant basic freedoms that overrule state laws. Are you arguing that all federal laws should be repealed because they aren't tribal enough?

Imagine if the tables were turned and we could decide which states had access to guns. I would think many would be in favor of this.

We're not even enforcing the WHOLE 2nd Amendment today at the state, local or federal level. Which part of "As part of a well regulated militia..." are school shooters a part of?

They also share a border and have had violent melee conflicts with deaths recently as 2020. They had a meeting last year at the BRICS conference too. source

They definitely have reason to talk to one another as leaders of nations to prevent further deaths and diffuse skirmishes that could escalate into war between the two.

Musk told advertisers to twitter to "fuck off".

Musk is now buying advertising on twitter.

Transitively Musk is telling himself to "fuck off.

Article from 6 months from now:

"Cracker maker Pepperidge Farms filed for a motion to dismiss the class action lawsuit brought against the company by buyers of its 'Chilean Sea Bass Crackers' and the FDA, and the FTC. The crackers contained zero Chilean Sea Bass putting the company's actions clearly in the area of False Advertising and Fraud. When reached for comment the spokesperson for Pepperidge Farms responded 'Its just a prank, bro!'"

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, alongside GOP attorneys general in Kansas and Idaho are using the same logic (benefits of amount of representation at the Federal level) the Southern Slave states used to argue for their right to partially count slaves as a population to gain more benefits at the Federal level. This was called the "Three-Fifths Compromise" source

"Slave holding states wanted their entire population to be counted to determine the number of Representatives those states could elect and send to Congress."

"Okay okay, fine, you can abort unwanted embryos, but the state should still get to count them as possible population so I can extract power from the nation based upon your existence. Lets compromise on this. How about I get to count 3 of every 5 abortions as population so I get power and you get to keep control of your body. We'll call it the 3/5ths compromise. Everyone wins!" - Missouri AG probably

Agreed. Our household rotates through streaming services. We'll watch the content we want on it in a month or 3, then drop it. In 6 months or a year later we'll come back if there's more content. If not, we don't re-subscribe until there is.

This yet another place that streaming is superior to cable. The same quality decline happened to cable, but your only choice was "cable" or "no cable", all or nothing. Further, unsubscribing to cable meant fighting through phone queues, returning hardware to physical locations in inconvenient places or shipping the hardware back.

Now, if a streaming service goes to crap, you cancel it in about 30 seconds with a few clicks, and if another streaming services has better content, you sub to that one, also in a few clicks.

It says "Chaos Controller" silkscreened right on the controller. It does exactly what it says on the tin.

His timing is impeccable.

You misspelled impeachable.

it’s actually saying that power to the states isn’t as bad as people thought it would be.

Is that because you didn't read the article or are you having difficulty interpreting the data?

The women in the states that banned abortions are getting them by travel to states where abortion isn't banned. How would that work against Democrats that champion the idea of a woman's ability to chose what to do with their own bodies? Do you think that the women that traveled to another state preferred the travel to getting treatment in their own state?

Other articles point out other massive detriments to abortion restrictions, like mothers dying from childbirth 62% higher in states with abortion bans. source.

"To compare maternal death rates (deaths during pregnancy, at birth, or within 42 days of birth) in states with abortion bans or restrictions to those without, we examined the most recent three years of data.7 We found that maternal death rates were 62 percent higher in 2020 in abortion-restriction states than in abortion-access states (28.8 vs. 17.8 per 100,000 births). Notably, across the three years presented in Exhibit 4, the maternal mortality rate was increasing nearly twice as fast in states with abortion restrictions."

So pro-force-birth folks are successful in killing more mothers. Great success?

How does any of this play worse for Democrats wanting the right for a woman to choose?

But every likely scenario will affect them. I don't see how they can think there isn't a scenario that won't affect them personally. A state can't just carve out a huge hole in its income stream that pays for services without massively impacting the residences either by reduced services, or increases in other revenue generating methods. Is that just lack of imagination on their part?

I really like there is now a legal definition Alcon has put together that any association of Musk with a brand is a risk to the brand.

A five sentence article isn't much to go on, but what do homeowner think is going to replace that revenue? Increased income tax? Increased sales tax, which are very regressive especially to lower income folks?