“So if a state decided that conservatives must be censored then that should remain at a state level? Issues end up in the SCOTUS due to be unresolved at lower levels.”
This was the problem with Roe. What Roe said was a person may choose to have an abortion until a fetus becomes viable, based on the right to privacy contained in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Viability means the ability to live outside the womb, which usually happens between 24 and 28 weeks after conception.
However, the government retained the power to regulate or restrict abortion access depending on the stage of pregnancy. The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protects against state action the right to privacy, and a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion falls within that right to privacy. In 1973, the Supreme Court held that the Fifth Amendment’s due process clause includes a right to privacy in Roe v. Wade – and that through this right of privacy, women have the right to choose to have an abortion.
For the following 49 years, states, health care providers, and citizens fought over what limits the government could place on abortion access, particularly during the second and third trimesters. But abortion was fundamentally legal in all 50 states during that period. But that has been changed with the overturning of abortion at the federal level.
So if a state decided that conservatives must be censored then that should remain at a state level?
The first amendment to the Constitution has not been overturned like Roe. Anyway, yes, a state can censure a group. But all it has to do is go to a higher court to be overturned. But it can be done.
My purpose was not simply to inform, but to counter the typical answers to this question. And Quora hid my comments from public view.
I’m sorry they censured you, but it can be done. If you want call the FCC and the FTC, and argue your case if they misrepresented you. It might have been easier to understand you if I had seen the rest of your quote.
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Quora has actually been more tolerant lately than before, and in this case the deletion may be due to my blocking the recalcitrant, unreason-able poster.