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Warren Proposes Sweeping Ban on Location and Health Data Sales

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• why can't people mind their own business and let women make their own decisions.

  Authoritarians cannot deal with people making their own decisions. They have to control everything and everybody. Just as if that had ever worked out well in human history or was compatible with any reasonable moral principles. But they cannot help themselves, and the usually rationalize it as "being right" (universally ignoring observable reality) or "being on a mission from god / the great leader / all that is right and proper / etc." As long as we, as the human race, fail to make sure these people stop doing damage, this crap will continue.

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    Authoritarians cannot deal with people making their own decisions. They have to control everything and everybody.

    Thank God for the Freedom fighters to ensure the authoritarians don't stop our slide into all-encompasing corporate control!

    Don't tread on my freedom to have facebook control every aspect of my waking life!

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    False, they only hate women. There's not a single piece of legislation that regulates in any way what a man can do with his body.... Unless you count legislation that subsidises erection pills and you won't see that getting overturned by the limp-dick republicans in congress anytime soon.

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          Don't be silly. That would be telling me what they can do. They will only ban female contraceptives.

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        Clearly you get nothing. I'm not even American. However calling an abortion "murder in the womb" is by far the dumbest fucking thing in the world. Go fuck your bible and stay out of other people's lives.

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    Conservatives, as the name suggests, want to preserve the status quo. The rich stay rich, the underclass stays the underclass. White people remain the majority with the most power. Values and social norms that put them in positions of power and wealth in the first place are to be preserved.

    So naturally anything that helps women advance in the world is a threat to them.

• if a woman travels to another state, what business is it of yours? why can't people mind their own business and let women make their own decisions.

  Republican politicians don't really care about anti-abortion, just that it riles up the ultra conservative portion of their base, gets votes and donations to keep them in power./cynical

  • Indeed. Good example: Trump. He used to be pro-abortion and did not care about religion. As soon as he wanted do get elected, he changes all this to what got him the most votes. No moral compass, just do whatever it takes to get power. While there are examples on the right side of the political spectrum as well(in the US: "Democrats"), on the ultra-right side (US: "Republicans") it is hard to find politicians that do not work like this.

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      Correction: Trump does what gets the loudest cheers. I'm not sure he understands votes as such.

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      Now, now, the former alleged president had a spiritual advisor, Dr. Paula White. She's one of those Prosperity Preachers (naturally) like Joel Olsteen who wouldn't open his Church to displaced people when some hurricane came through Houston a while back.

      It does say something about the Republican party, which says it believes in individual responsibility and rights, that it sold it little black soul to an authoritarian dingbat.

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      Indeed

      This thread with all the, what I assume to be people from the U.S.A., drenched in political tribalism getting very angry about a classic “culture wars” divide shows well to me how almost no one cares about the actual issues and how it's mostly the fact that in the U.S.A., politics is a team sport and people mostly fight to feel the feeling of beloning to a group.

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    Some conservatives do care about abortion, and not just for religious reasons. If women have more control over their fertility then they will gain more equality, which they see as a zero sum game meaning that any benefits women see will be a detriment to men.

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  If Roe is overturned, it would turn abortion in to an actual political issue where voters would get to choose the morality of it. It would no longer be some litmus test for potential Justices and remove the political aspect from the Court. It would only be outlawed nation-wide if voters in every state supported local politicians that promise to outlaw abortion because it would become a 'states rights' issue rather than en edict from a Federal Court. The Court would not be outlawing it (it would be correc

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    Right, value of human life./s

    What of the value of the pregnant woman's life?

    Or for that matter, the value of the child's life, after the woman has given birth?

    I don't see cheap / free childcare services being talked about.

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    Getting Roe thrown out is only the first step. They'll be in Congress advocating a nationwide ban on all abortions unless Republican wives really, really want one.

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      Yes, they will, and they won't achieve it so long as significant opposition remains among the voters.

      Now, obviously, a far larger problem in the U.S.A. is simply the plurality-takes-all voting systems which allows minority rules and ideas that aren' that popular to take shape, as well as of course that one only has two actual options to choose from when voting, which affects this issue and everyone else.

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  When they can tell people how to live, they feel they are virtue signaling God to accept their sorry asses into Heaven when they go tits up. Somehow, God being all-powerful prevents Him from fending for Himself and requires these Quislings to help him out.

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  Just like everyone else; just like every other “right”

  “rights” have been a farce since the dawn of man. — Freedom is not so much a delusion granted to the weak by the strong, as it is a delusion granted to the weak-minded, by themselves./p.

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  This issue is bigger than abortion. There's a great episode of the Throughline podcast from a few years ago about the rise of the anti-abortion movement. Apocalypse Now [npr.org] Everyone should be paying attention. Some really powerful forces have been playing a long, long game.