• Heifer [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    I think the ruling says the constitution doesn’t guarantee a right to abortion thus overturning roe v wade. So states are free to ban or allow abortion. I just don’t know if doing so at the federal level would infringe upon “states power” but I think supremacy clause would make that a non-issue

    • Sea_Gull [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      I mean if Biden really wanted to, he could make clinics on federal property or just outside of states where it's illegal and provide an inexpensive bus line to those clinics. But that would mean doing something more than pretending to be sad.

        • Sea_Gull [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          Unironically, yes. If they could do vaccines and testing through the federal government, why not abortion access?

          I mean it's obvious why, but health care is health care.

          I mean if Qanon folks are gonna conspiracy theory anyway about what the left is doing with fetuses, we might as well extend services and protections to people who need it.

          • FloridaBoi [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            Absolutely.

            The USPS has such a massive footprint across the entire country and they were already floating postal banking.

            • Sea_Gull [they/them]
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              3 years ago

              Even something as simple as birth control/plan b free in the mail would change so many lives.

                • Sea_Gull [they/them]
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                  3 years ago

                  A presidential candidate should've campaigned on that.

                  Free and anonymous mailing for tests, medication, etc would lift so many people out of poverty and allow them safety in their sexuality.

                  I still can't fathom why PrEP isn't done like that. The medication is cheaper than providing emergency healthcare for people who contact HIV. Doesn't even have to be LGBT either. How many paramedics, nurses, and people who run safe injection sites would have peace of mind?

    • Weebus [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      Thinking about it more I don't think this new precedent would be able to strike down a hypothetical Roe-like federal law, but I believe it would nonetheless be brought down by SCOTUS under the justification of violating the Necessary and Proper Clause

      • Heifer [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        Yeah I own a mini constitution. That’s why all drugs should be legal because the tyranny of the Controlled Substance Act is illegal