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0 pointshobs2y ago0 comments

To be clear, a majority of people in the USA support access to abortion, its the fact that a minority court was packed with gerrymandered districts and a political party dead set on ending democracy that we got here.

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rayiner2y ago· 4 in thread

That narrative turns the facts upside down. Was the Supreme Court wrong to ignore public opinion in 1973, when the citizens of every state banned abortion through their duly elected legislatures? Or is it wrong to ignore public opinion now?

In reality, the Supreme Court in 1973 subverted democracy by striking down abortion laws every state had adopted through the democratic process. In 2022, the Supreme Court restored the issue to the democratic process.

pjc502y ago

> In reality, the Supreme Court in 1973 subverted democracy by striking down abortion laws every state had adopted through the democratic process. In 2022, the Supreme Court restored the issue to the democratic process.

This is basically true, and a really serious indictment of democracy in America. All sorts of important rights, such as racial equality and equality of marriage (not just gay marriage, but interracial marriage!) had to be secured through legal action against a tyrannical and indifferent majority.

rayiner2y ago

If the majority doesn’t think something is a “right” then how can it be a right? Where does it come from?

hobsOP2y ago

It in no way turns facts upside down, it simply responds to the word majority and the current events, it's the facts to say that the supreme court did the opposite in the 1970s.

rayiner2y ago

If you think “democracy” matters, then the Supreme Court got it wrong in 1973 (by overturning laws that states adopted through the democratic process) and got it right in 2022 (by returning the issue to the democratic process).

Levitz2y ago

You can support access to abortion and disagree that there is a constitutional protection for such right. These are two different matters.

ThrowawayTestr2y ago

I figured it was because the Democrats never bothered to make it a law.

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