LGBTQ people: "They're coming for us next"
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| Photo: Ted S. Warren/Associated Press |
Gwendolyn Wu in the SF Chronicle:
SACRAMENTO — If the “right to privacy” that courts have ruled is provided by the U.S. Constitution were a home, Roe v. Wade would be the foundation and subsequent rulings enshrining LGBTQ rights would be akin to the floors built above.
LGBTQ activists and legal scholars say that’s why the revelation that the Supreme Court is set to overturn Roe v. Wade, the historic case protecting abortion rights, sent a wave of panic through the community as many question whether rulings protecting same-sex marriage and consensual sexual acts could be targeted next.
“If the foundation of a house crumbles, the whole house is threatened,” said Samuel Garrett-Pate, a spokesperson for Equality California, an LGBTQ advocacy group. “The court is clearly telegraphing exactly where they plan to go next”....
Labels: Gay Rights, Hate/Terrorism, Right and Left, SF Chronicle, The Repugnant Party
posted by Rob Anderson @ 6:27 PM
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The chronicle needs better writers writing better articles. They won’t be going after LGBTQ or same sex marriages. I think folks are hyperventilating for no reason over this issue. If overturned in the Supreme Court it will be kicked back to the states to make the laws. States would probably just lose federal funding for abortions. But at the end of the day no court can come back and say abortion is illegal or legal.
Let them overturn it. It won’t make a difference .California as an example can keep abortions legal by state law and move on. In a way Roe v. Wade is the cause of all of these never ending court battles. Get rid of the ruling and states can keep abortions legal by state law no argument.
Bullshit. Leave it to the states and many of them will make abortion illegal, which will make life harder and more dangerous for women trying to control their own bodies. That's why we need a federal law making abortion legal. Only religious crackpots---and I of course think all religions are crackpot---oppose women's right to choose.
Abortions won’t be illegal in states. The only difference is that some states will set limitations in when a woman can have an abortion for example first 3 months and other states will allow you to kill the baby as it’s coming out. Birth control is also available even for women that don’t like using condoms. I don’t mind the Supreme Court saying FU it’s not up to us or the federal government. We don’t need a court ruling or the feds telling us when we can take a shit. And besides the federal government can’t find its asshole with a funnel when it comes to passing laws regardless of which side they’re on.
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