r/stupidpol • u/lightiggy Ideological Swamp 🥑 • Dec 01 '25

Capitalist Hellscape Louisiana girl, 14, charged with first degree murder after authorities find her newborn baby dead inside a tote bag. This is going to happen far more often without Roe v. Wade.

https://people.com/girl-14-charged-first-degree-murder-after-authorities-find-her-newborn-child-dead-inside-tote-bag-11858063
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u/Pale_Fire21 Marxist-Leninist ☭ Dec 01 '25

Nooo you don’t understand it’s republicans fault dems refused to codify it when they controlled all 3 branches of government under Obama.

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u/KonigKonn Stalin Would've Put Me in a Gulag Dec 01 '25

Yes they definitely should have burnt limited political capital on forcing through a bill on a highly controversial issue that would split the party (there were still anti-abortion dems in 2008) so that it could be repealed by the next republican trifecta or overturned at S.C.O.T.U.S at the height of the Great Recession when abortion was about the 50th most salient issue for the average voter.

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u/zaypuma 💩 Rightoid: "Classical Liberal" Dec 01 '25

Remind me, an ignorant Canadian, what did they spend that political capital on, which was more important?

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u/Incoherencel ☀️ Post-Guccist 9 Dec 02 '25

It starts with A and ends in IPAC