Posted on 05/07/2022 5:39:41 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said in an interview with USA Today a national abortion ban is “possible” if Roe v. Wade gets overturned this summer.
“If the leaked opinion became the final opinion, legislative bodies — not only at the state level but at the federal level — certainly could legislate in that area,” McConnell told USA Today when asked if a national abortion ban is “worthy of debate.”
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He'd rather eat a mile of sheetrock than give up his "fame" and "power."
Truly disgusting, and damned near treasonous, the foul piece of dung.
That’s not what the draft opinion says. It just says that it’s not a constitutional right.
If that happened, couldn’t it still be challenged and wind up in the SC anyway?
That’s why the turtle ran his mouth.
So does this have any meaning anymore?
Deep State is threatening wayward Dems.
Keep voting for our candidates or there goes your access to abortion.
I hate to break it to pro-choicers, but if Deep State isn’t stopped, a lack of access to legal abortion will be the least of their problems.
He's had plenty of other opportunities over the years. Why now?
Not to Congress. They pretty much destroyed by the deliberate misinterpretation of the interstate commerce clause.
He's trying to finish the job he started by helping to have the GOP yield all the redistricting fights to democrats by "incompetence": keep the dems competetive so if needed they can stop Trump and probably DeSantis if it comes to it in 2024.
Not really, no. Alito said it was up to the people and their elected representatives. That could include state, local, or federal.
You mean like setting minimum drinking ages?
In Missouri we have a state legislator submitting a bill making it a crime for a Missouri resident to travel to another state to get an abortion. How long will states that ban abortion sit still as their residents drive across the border and get an abortion before they insist on a national solution, which the draft of the decision makes perfectly legal?
You can’t make a law like that, any more than you can make it a crime to go to another state to undergo heart surgery or dental work. A law like that wouldn’t stand up.
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