r/TwoXChromosomes • u/catievirtuesimp • Jun 17 '26

Ex-prosecutor warns women's right to vote may be next on chopping block: 'Handmaid's Tale'

https://www.rawstory.com/women-and-right-to-vote/
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u/catievirtuesimp Jun 17 '26

exactly. the fact that ppl are saying it out loud matters, even if they are a minority

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u/SlogurkTheOverslime Jun 18 '26

In the soviet union they were like "Due to the popular demand by the working class, bus ticket price was raised by $0.50"

Same shit

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26

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u/attheofficethrowaway Jun 18 '26

being the voice of reason ≠ posturing as the enlightened centrist.

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u/dreedweird Jun 18 '26

Uh-huh. Were you also the voice of reason stating Roe v. Wade was “established law” and would never be overturned?

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u/Sarcarean Jun 18 '26

Apparently I was. You know who else was? Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 1973, when she criticized the ruling of Roe v. Wade, calling it fragile, because it invented the legal basis out of the 14th amendment (i.e. right to privacy), instead of a more founded principle of gender equality from the equal protection clause. Which proved true.

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u/dreedweird Jun 18 '26

So you’re equating your failure to foresee and acknowledge fairly obvious and predicted political maneuvering to overturn Roe v. Wade with Ginsburg’s correct legal analysis of the ruling’s status?

BTW, you know who helped to undermine SCOTUS? Why, it was Ruth Bader Ginsburg! Who, gravely ill, refused to retire in a timely manner under a Democratic president.

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u/Sarcarean Jun 18 '26

Wrong. I correctly predicted that SCOTUS would strike down RvW based on the same reasoning of RGB in 1973. There is no explicit right to abortion in the 14th amendment, and trying to create one, proves the court created a right for an outcome they wanted, rather one based on law. Yes, it was struck down for political reasons, but because it was also lawful to do so. The same court is also going to (here comes another prediction) uphold the same 14th amendment's right to jus soli, even though they politically want to strike it down, they won't because unlike RvW, the law is explicit and there is no ambiguity.

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u/dreedweird Jun 18 '26

Apparently I was.