expectation: long term effects of Roe v Wade overturn not huge, result is more like a peace treaty than a new war, everything goes back to the state level as God intended, people get Chill Unless the Left does something really really stupid Don't do anything stupid pls
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basically you can't expect people to vote against their religious beliefs that tell them "this is a mortal sin equivalent to murder". aint gonna happen. culture leads politics, not the other way around. those communities would benefit a lot from social democratic policies though.
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so in order to get an electoral win and move the policy landscape leftward you have to drop the litmus test and be willing to let people live according to their religious beliefs, even if it creates bad outcomes (like black market abortions).
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that said: we're a federation of states. as long as interstate travel is available (and affordable) it's not that big of a problem, big picture wise. bus tickets solve a lot of problems.
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So if Roe v Wade is overturned, it’ll be a state by state thing? That is less bad than it could have been.
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yes exactly. always understand that in the U.S. the realities of legislation are nearly always handled by the states on an individual state basis. the saving grace of our system is that we're not as centralized as it looks sometimes.
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Roe v. Wade isn't even a law actually. It's a judicial statute that says "no state shall pass a law curtailing a woman's right to have an abortion". So if the statute is repealed it just means that some states (a minority of them probably) will try to legislate abortion bans.
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Okay. Thanks for the info & your perspective.
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