It sure as hell feels that way to a woman facing an unsafe or unwanted pregnancy.

I still don't see where any man has any right to weigh in on what any woman does with her own body.
I never will.

Life is not sacred.
Anyone who says otherwise is a hypocrite.

@TheMiddleWay I basically agree with you however the definition of life is clear.

There is a large body of SCOTUS case law reaffirming the federal proscription against state laws that in some way establish or inhibit any religion. For instance, in Engle v. Vitale, the Court ruled that the State of New York could not institutionalize prayer in public schools. In Cantwell v. Connecticut, the Court ruled that the State could not require a permit for religious solicitations. In Torasco v. Watkins, the Court ruled that the State of Maryland could not require a candidate for public office to declare a belief in God. And in Lemon v. Kurtzman, the Court ruled that the State could not use state funds to reimburse a religious school for its textbook expenditures. In that case, the court created what is known as the Lemon Test, which says that a law is constitutional if (1) it is primarily secular in purpose, (2) its procipal effect neither aids nor inhibits religion, and (3) the law does not excessively entangle government and religion. How is the federal government able to exert this influence over the states? Because the states all receive MONEY from the federal government!

I think most of us here care. And we have been speaking out for a long time.

@MsKathleen I'm talking about outside this bubble.

It’s a human trait to seem to not care until a crisis strikes.

@yvilletom Species flaw.

@rainmanjr This bubble is growing.

@Jolanta Comparatively it's still a bubble but I'm happy for the news.

The current GOP’s troubles began in the 1950s when its far right, the John Birch Society, and its western conservatives became powerful enough to expel moderates.

Their recruiting the Dixiecrats in the late 1960s brought racism into the Party.

Reagan’s inviting the evangelicals in the early 1980s brought an authoritarian refusal to compromise into the Party.

Activists such as Lee Atwater and Newt Gringrich did more damage to the Party.

The tea parties might have reversed the trend but the Koch Brothers bought them off, paving the way for the demagogue Trump.

If fascism wins in 2024:
1 - Will America have a religious war?
2 - Will the rural red states secede?
3 - Other?

I don't think I'll be around long enough to see a functioning democracy again.

My lifetime will become very short.

The arc of history tells me that if fascism wins in this decade, a future generation of Americans will overthrow that fascism and make a government that’s more democratic than our plutocratic oligarchy.