• Rentlar
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    227 months ago

    Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, an outspoken abortion-rights opponent who faces a competitive re-election bid, said abortion rights aren’t in danger at the federal level because the 60-vote filibuster rule will give Democrats the power to block anti-abortion-rights bills in Congress.

    Let the voters vote on this and talk about it. And debate it. And vote again, if they want to,” Hawley said. “I support a 15-week ban, but that’s not going to pass.”

    Yeah so these numbnuts are saying that they rely on Democrats to be smart and reasonable so that they are free to hold their batshit stance.

    Dear southern neighbours, please elect reasonable people to the US House and Senate. Thanks and with love, Canadians.

    • Billiam
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      157 months ago

      They’re trying to lull uninformed voters into a false sense of security. It only takes a majority of the Senate to remove the filibuster, so a Republican-majority Senate could absolutely impose a nationwide abortion ban after ditching the filibuster.

  • @NatakuNox@lemmy.world
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    177 months ago

    Republicans want women to be brood sows. Conservative beliefs only work if there’s a endless supply of poor, uneducated, subservient/indoctrinated people working below the powerful and wealthy. That’s not possible if women get to choose when (if ever) and how many children they have. Add in the fact the GOP is lead by a literal rapist, who loves the idea of forcing women to be attached to him forever, doesn’t see anything wrong with extending that control 18 years.

  • theprogressivist
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    147 months ago

    They left it to the States, and the states decided they wanted abortions legal, and they refused to do the bidding of the people. So fuck off with that noise.

  • @some_guy
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    37 months ago

    That’s why they fought so much to pack the courts at the federal level, sure.