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Goksu Toprak
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(I am not a women) 1. Trump replaced 3 supreme court justices in which I think all actually stated that "Roe vs. Wade" was a super-precedent. Given chance, they overturned it and moved it to each state to make a decision. Decision by the supreme court immediately resulted in loss of rights women had in certain states. Democrats should have codified it with Obama when they had the chance, but does not change the fact that Trump is somewhat responsible as he was the one who nominated these justices. In terms of "newly elected president taking away from you" — he stated he won't do a national ban on abortion. I would not be shocked if he is lying or he is truthful. Trust him at your own peril. It makes sense to me that women electors may not. 2. Being a "single-issue" voter imo is a privileged position. No candidate should be dumbed down to a binary outcome. Politics are multi-faceted. 3. Overall agree its unproductive. However, not everyone is entitled to get every opinion they have entertained seriously.
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christopher
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Democrats didn’t need to codify it because Roe was already decided, and the ACA was far more important to pass. There were also pro-life democrats in the senate which jeopardized the supermajority.
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Nounish Prof ⌐◧-◧🎩
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Democrats ABSOLUTELY needed to codify it and should have done so in the 90s! WH, House and Senate were all D at one point. But also -- almost all men (90%). Roe was built on a legal fiction -- everyone who's gone to law school knows this (so basically all of congress and all justices). It was just a matter of time and we had plenty of time to fix this. The Dems failed women because they didn't want to fix this. Can't run on the problem if you fix the problem (same thing for immigration on the other side). Our system is broken and where women are concerned, it always has been.
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