Of course, the bill is unconstitutional. The whole point of the new abortion bans is to force the Supreme Court to reverse Roe v. Wade.
While reading the first page of this article, this quote is exactly what I was thinking. Then I got to the second page and the article's logical conclusion and mine are in sync with each other.
This move by the Virginia legislature is a gambit designed to forcing the SCotUS to revisit Roe v. Wade. Since the Robert's court make-up has already proven previous court rulings no longer apply, the conservatives are hoping for another act of revising American law via (surprise, surprise) activist judges -- which they claim to hold in contempt on the campaign trail, but who they are relying on for a win they think are coming decades too late.
Virginia is now going to be on par with Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Taliban when it comes to women's rights. Sic semper tyrannis -- "thus always to tyrants" is Virginia's official state motto and while it might have once been used to refer to freedom from oppression, the modern GOP will have it mean that only tyrants are righteous and right.
While reading the first page of this article, this quote is exactly what I was thinking. Then I got to the second page and the article's logical conclusion and mine are in sync with each other.
This move by the Virginia legislature is a gambit designed to forcing the SCotUS to revisit Roe v. Wade. Since the Robert's court make-up has already proven previous court rulings no longer apply, the conservatives are hoping for another act of revising American law via (surprise, surprise) activist judges -- which they claim to hold in contempt on the campaign trail, but who they are relying on for a win they think are coming decades too late.
Virginia is now going to be on par with Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Taliban when it comes to women's rights. Sic semper tyrannis -- "thus always to tyrants" is Virginia's official state motto and while it might have once been used to refer to freedom from oppression, the modern GOP will have it mean that only tyrants are righteous and right.
UPDATE
And it seems as though Oklahoma doesn't want Viriginia GOPers to get all the wacky credit today since they just decided life starts at conception. Not when the fetus can presumably survive on it's own, but when the sperm enters the egg. And no, there's no safety net for the raped there either.
Apparently, equal protections under the law, the Fourteenth Amendment and the Civil Rights Act mean absolutely nothing to the modern GOP.
I guess this is why some people think it's a dying breed. One can only hope.
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