It's pretty bizarre to have abortion rights depend on the Supreme Court instead of positive legislation
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I get the argument "this is what happens if you elect the Republicans!". But there's a flip side—why doesn't anything happen when we elect the Democrats? After 48 years, why does such a fundamental human right still depend on whether a vainglorious old person decided to retire?
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During the Presidential primaries, the debate was between taking our medical system to full socialism, or making a pit stop first at Scandinavian style social democracy. And now with the House, Senate and Presidency we can't even safeguard reproductive choice? It's fucked up.
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What is the purpose of electing a party that given full power can't pass bedrock parts of its legislative program?
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You're a smart guy so I'm puzzled by your periodic statements like this. There are 5 extra votes in the house and zero in the senate. It's not a parliamentary system where the margin doesn't matter and the majority just carries out its agenda.
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When you can't enact your core platform during repeated stints in power over forty eight years, the problem goes beyond procedural excuses. Let's not forget the House and Senate set their own rules.
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I'm not sure what the "core platform" was that didn't get enacted in the '90s - except for ACA which eventually got there, albeit watered down. "The democrats" used to include a lot of mods and cons.
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1992 platform: “Democrats stand behind the right of every woman to choose, consistent with Roe v. Wade, regardless of ability to pay, and support a national law to protect that right.”
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