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Over 60 prosecutors, AGs say they will not criminalize abortion if Roe v. Wade overturned
The Hill ^
| October 14, 2020
| Tal Axelrod
Posted on 10/14/2020 7:29:17 AM PDT by karpov
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To: karpov
It is still a STATE issue. That is the point of overturning Roe v. Wade. It should never have been a federal law. It is unconstitutional. Let the States make their own laws, as the Constitution has stipulated.
To: karpov
Okay then. But just make sure youre not depending on federal tax funds to finance any aspect of this subject.
To: karpov
As some elected prosecutors have noted, the broad restrictions in the laws passed by these states appear to be unconstitutional under Roe v. Wade. Many of us share those legal views, but our commitment to not prosecute women who obtain abortions and health care professionals who provide treatment is not predicated on these concerns alone and, indeed, would hold even if the protections of Roe v. Wade were to be eroded or overturned, they said.
So if DAs and prosecutors don't have to follow/enforce the law as they pick and choose, why can't I pick and choose which laws I have to follow or not?
To: karpov; All
"The title is misleading -- prosecutors don't get to decide what is criminalized." I agree 100%.
Somebody at the Hill was evidently never taught the differences between legislative powers and the edicts of tyrant judges.
Also, the pro-abortion policies of 60 prosecutors and AGs may not be in effect after the next election, depending on what taxpayers feel about the murder of unborn children.
And speaking of the next election, send "Orange Man Bad" federal and state government desperate Democrats home in November!
Supporting PDJT with a new patriot Congress and state government leaders that will promise to fully support his already excellent work for MAGA and stopping SARS-CoV-2 will effectively give fast-working Trump a "third term" in office imo.
I dont see any problem with voting Republican ticket for 2020 elections.
Insights welcome.
To: karpov
Democrats think judges should make laws and that prosecutors should decide which ones to enforce. Of course they do. That's why 90% of this summer's rioters who got arrested were released with no charges filed. The local and state prosecutors refused to prosecute BLM/Antifa rioters.
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posted on
10/14/2020 8:12:06 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: Migraine
Sanctuary Abortion Mills. They like the sound of that./s
The unborn babies won’t.
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posted on
10/14/2020 8:17:50 AM PDT
by
frank ballenger
(End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
To: silent majority rising
It is still a STATE issue. That is the point of overturning Roe v. Wade. It should never have been a federal law. It is unconstitutional. Let the States make their own laws, as the Constitution has stipulated.
You do realize that Roe v Wade was brought on a State law, right? Some chick wanted to kill her kid, so she tried to claim rape, but Texas didn't allow an exception for children conceived from rape, only in cases where the life of the mother was an issue. It's not a Federal law, it's a Federal court decision that killed many State/Fed laws, and even more kids.
The thing is, it still can be a Federal issue. While most laws for murder are State-based and State-prosecuted, the only Federal ones that would apply would be if the kid was conceived in rape (18 U.S.C. Section 2248, 2251), or, unless the abortion was completely free: Murder for Hire (18 U.S.C. Section 1958).
To: karpov
That’s right. And if they refuse to enforce the law they will find themselve on the other side of it. And with the title “Former prosecutor”.
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posted on
10/14/2020 8:22:25 AM PDT
by
bigbob
(Trust Trump. Trust the Plan)
To: karpov
our commitment to not prosecute women who obtain abortions Women were never, or at least almost never, prosecuted for getting abortions prior to Roe. They went after the abortionists and people who worked with them.
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posted on
10/14/2020 8:31:00 AM PDT
by
Campion
(What part of "shall not be infringed" don't they understand?)
To: Svartalfiar
My whole point was that it will still be a State issue, regardless if Roe v. Wade is overturned, or not..The idea that overturning will mean that every pregnant girl in America will have to go to her closet and use a coathanger, as Ted Kennedy suggested, is absurd, but the Demcrats are sticking to that mantra.
To: 3RIVRS
Then whats the big deal?
Well, that it isn’t the end of the argument is part of the deception on the left’s side. If Roe v. Wade is overturned, it simply means that the legitimate process of discussion becomes allowed.
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posted on
10/14/2020 8:43:44 AM PDT
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: silent majority rising
It is still a STATE issue. That is the point of overturning Roe v. Wade. It should never have been a federal law. It is unconstitutional. Let the States make their own laws, as the Constitution has stipulated.”
Most states who will allow abortion will not allow it to the extent Roe has. Washington state, which is the most godless in the nation, had a quickening or heartbeat abortion law.
With Roe the legislators have pushed abortion all the way to abortion even after birth being legal.
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posted on
10/14/2020 9:10:19 AM PDT
by
angry elephant
(Ding dong the Witch is dead, the Wicked Witch is dead)
To: karpov
While prosecutorial discretion does exist, it’s for individual cases and not a class of cases. The prosecutors’ obligation is to enforce the law by prosecuting violators.
The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment prohibit abortion.
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posted on
10/14/2020 9:30:49 AM PDT
by
TBP
(Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
To: karpov
Slaughtering an unborn child is not health care.
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posted on
10/14/2020 10:39:17 AM PDT
by
pas
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