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Post by Sean Hayden » Sat May 07, 2022 12:57 pm

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Re: The US Supreme Court

Post by JimC » Sat May 07, 2022 9:17 pm

Let the market rule!

Surely it would be more efficient to use large baby-making factories?
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Post by Tero » Sun May 08, 2022 1:27 am

It's no big deal! They can just put the babies up for adoption!
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Alito’s draft opinion also peddles the notion that “the costs of medical care associated with pregnancy are covered by insurance or government assistance.” Most of the states likely to ban abortion, should Roe be overturned, are the same states that have refused to expand Medicaid coverage. And even those families lucky enough to have employer-based health coverage can end up facing thousands in medical bills for childbirth: For a birth free of complications, a worker with employer-based insurance can expect to pay $4,500 on average in out-of-pocket costs.

I, for one, would love to live in the country that the draft opinion describes, where pregnancy is physically and economically safe, valued and supported. Unfortunately, we live in this one — where even a wanted pregnancy and birth can be among the most economically disruptive experiences most people can expect to face.

...Alito’s claim that pregnant workers have nothing to fear because federal and state laws ban pregnancy discrimination. His claim that workplace protections insulate pregnant employees from harm is particularly rich given the origins of the 1978 Pregnancy Discrimination Act, a rebuke to a 1976 Supreme Court decision, General Electric Co. v. Gilbert, which wrongly concluded that workers could be penalized for being pregnant.
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Re: The US Supreme Court

Post by Sean Hayden » Sun May 08, 2022 1:57 am

Either we're free to plan our families or we aren't.

All this other nonsense is a distraction.

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Post by Tero » Sun May 08, 2022 12:39 pm

Yeah, I was wondering why a legal document had a few pages of legal wording and the rest is sociology and theology.
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Re: The US Supreme Court

Post by Hermit » Mon May 09, 2022 1:37 am

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Yeah, I was wondering why a legal document had a few pages of legal wording and the rest is sociology and theology.
Because functionally it is not a legal document. It's a political manifesto. That's what you get when politicians decide appointments to the bench.
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Re: The US Supreme Court

Post by Tero » Mon May 09, 2022 12:28 pm

Roberts:
Politico revealed the plan by conservatives to sack Roe v. Wade, five justices were still on board with the gist of what was first hatched back in February. The paper also reported that the saga has called into question the influence of Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. who, though conservative, had expressed a desire for an incremental approach to banning abortions, but also to keep in place key tenets of Supreme Court precedent on abortion rights. The Post, quoting someone close to Roberts, said he had gotten little support for a more tempered approach to restricting the procedure. A final ruling on Roe is expected by June or July.
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Re: The US Supreme Court

Post by Brian Peacock » Tue May 10, 2022 1:22 am

Expect briefings against Judge Roberts in short order.
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Re: The US Supreme Court

Post by Tero » Tue May 10, 2022 11:19 am

Social commentary in Alito brief
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Re: The US Supreme Court

Post by Sean Hayden » Tue May 10, 2022 12:08 pm

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Re: The US Supreme Court

Post by Sean Hayden » Tue May 10, 2022 12:15 pm

Am I supposed to feel something for these people? Fuck off, never cared.

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Re: The US Supreme Court

Post by Tero » Tue May 10, 2022 12:22 pm

It's just mansplayining. "This would be a good thing" and "you can just leave the baby at the firehouse" are not legal arguments.
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Re: The US Supreme Court

Post by Sean Hayden » Tue May 10, 2022 12:25 pm

It's out of touch bullshit ie the norm. These clowns can run their mouths till the cows come home, at the end of the day they're arguing to take away rights and doing a poor job of it.

I have no respect for the court.

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Re: The US Supreme Court

Post by laklak » Tue May 10, 2022 1:27 pm

I have no respect for the entire Federal government.
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.

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Re: The US Supreme Court

Post by Tero » Tue May 10, 2022 2:07 pm

The court certainly is left to use imagination. And early modern England.
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