'Women are losing their lives': The US state where abortion rights could sway the vote - eviltoast
  • FIash Mob #5678@beehaw.org
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    2 months ago

    He did as much as a president could do in this position at the federal level.

    Patently false.

    He has the constitutional power to keep Congress in session if he wants to. He could have held military funding hostage. He could have used his position as the leader of the party to divert campaign funding away from the politicians who vote conservative.

    Etc. Etc. Etc.

    Respectfully, the excuses don’t matter. The Democrats are not powerless. They’re profiting off the issue, and I think that is why they do not act, and it doesn’t matter how you vote. We’re never getting nationwide legal abortion back.

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      When Idaho criminalized abortion in 2022, the governor, both US Senators, and both US Congressmen were Republican, and the state legislature maintained a GOP supermajority.

      Biden and Democrats did everything possible to fight it, short of violating the Constitution and declaring war on a ruby red state. But sure, funds could have been withheld from the tiny island of Democratic legislators because they should be … undermined? Great plan!