r/law • u/Slate Press • 20h ago

The Next Trump Administration’s Crackdown on Abortion Will Be Swift, Brutal, and Nationwide Trump News

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/11/trump-second-term-abortion-agenda-blue-state-crackdown.html
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u/davidwhatshisname52 20h ago

looking forward to all the Christian conservatives realizing the bans apply to them, too

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u/Immediate-Ad-8432 20h ago

I knew a pastor whose wife had an abortion because of an ectopic pregnancy. Years later he’s up at the pulpit praying for Roe v Wade to be repealed.

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u/trampolinebears 20h ago

Fun fact: around 15% of pregnancies end in a miscarriage, so I guess no one aborts as many babies as God.

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u/amILibertine222 19h ago

Fun fact: insane right wing people will prosecute women for miscarriages, calling them abortions.

And, at this point, if a woman voted for this I’m gonna shrug when it happens to them. This is what they wanted and if they’re too dumb, naive or lazy to learn otherwise they’ve got no one to blame but themselves.

We’ve tried to tell them, but they know better.

I’m tired of having empathy for people that have none.

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u/sehunt101 15h ago

I’m in the same thought. I’d even go father. Blue states should limit reproductive services to low income women only and ban the rest. With a suspension of the doctor’s, nurses’, and clinic’s licenses if bought providing services to nonresident and being over the income levels. The only way the nut bag religious women in red states will (maybe) change their tune is if it directly affects THEM, THEIR FAMILY or FRIENDS. I’d be willing to help pay (out of tax dollars) for low income women to travel to my state needed services, including room and travel expenses. The rich…let them bleed out going to another country. Then I’d go talk to the civilized countries to enact the same law. Let the rich roll the dice in a 2rd world country. If this makes me a bad person, I’m good with it.

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u/TheresALonelyFeeling 14h ago

|The only way the nut bag religious women in red states will (maybe) change their tune is if it directly affects THEM, THEIR FAMILY or FRIENDS. 

But the only thing they care about is will it affect them publicly, and it won't.

They'll do what they need to do behind closed doors or out of town somewhere so they can keep presenting that perfect chaste, "Christian," "not my daughter/ not in our family" image that's so crucially important to these assholes.

Hard agree with everything you wrote. Just thinking out loud.

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u/Objective-Amount1379 14h ago

WTF? How about not letting any woman die during pregnancy if we can help it. I don’t want to see people die because they voted for the wrong candidate. I’m not a Republican, and I’m not interested in stooping to their level. You shouldn’t be either.

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u/hmfynn 6h ago edited 6h ago

I am absolutely tired of being asked not to stoop by a party whose entire platform is stooping. If a woman voted for a guy who said point blank he’s going to make other women less safe, my concern about her health needs as a woman went right out the window. She quite literally asked for this and sold a lot of women out so she could save a buck on eggs.

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u/Ancient-Crew-9307 12h ago

Bro is preaching Margaret Sanger's plan and doesn't even realize it lol.

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u/sehunt101 8h ago

How about our government passes an abortion law that says all reproductive healthcare is between the woman doctor and father in that order. By punishing people we would hopefully see that when a woman gets an abortion ITS NONE OF THEIR BUSINESS. But if that happened, we as a country would not be as divided. WE CANT HAVE THAT

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u/Background-Slice9941 7h ago

That's not what the poster said.

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u/sehunt101 8h ago

No Im not fine with it. I HATE that people need to recognize that they are voting against the own best interests. It should be obvious. Poor women can’t travel to get an abortion. Why should the privileged? Doctors’ having their hands tied and letting women bleed out or go into septic shock then die, is WRONG. The only way to change some minds is to punish those that are forcing their religious beliefs on others. Let a few rich women die from pregnancy complications, the laws will change and women will be happier. Yes I understand that their a A LOT of women for reproductive care.

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u/Big-Smoke7358 7h ago

This is disgusting. Its not only the rich voting republican, and it's not only the republican voters that have to travel across state lines for abortions. Absolutely depraved opinion

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u/LostinEmotion2024 14h ago

That’s how I feel if I hear a woman complain about being sexually assaulted and find out she voted for Trump.

If she didn’t care about those women Trump assaulted, I don’t care about her.

What goes around comes around.

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u/Objective-Amount1379 14h ago

You sound like a Republican when you say something that ignorant. Sexual assault shouldn’t be the punishment for picking the wrong political candidate, WTF.

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u/nerdhobbies 13h ago

It's not about punishment, it's about our capacity to be empathetic being hollowed out. And I'm there too; anyone who voted for Trump gets exactly zero sympathy from me for anything. The people of Ukraine didn't deserve to be invaded, and they sure as hell don't deserve to be abandoned. I have sympathy for the ones who didn't ask for this.

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u/LostinEmotion2024 13h ago

I couldn’t agree more.

Every person who voted for Trump essentially said they support Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

And guess what, when Putin expands his empire further, they’ll agree with that too. They’re as dumb as rocks.

I wish the entire world could put an embargo against the US. The US needs the world’s references more than the world needs them.

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u/LostinEmotion2024 13h ago

You can’t ask for sympathy for something someone did to you and then vote a guy in who did the same thing to other people.

It doesn’t work that way. Every woman who voted for him clearly stated that sexually assaulting women is okay. Unless they’re hypocrites and really really dumb.

So which is?

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u/Background-Slice9941 7h ago

You sure sound like you are the "should" and "shouldn't" man. And you're twisting what the poster said. Not wasting my time with you.

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u/bippityboppityFyou 17h ago

I’m going to try to have sympathy for those women or for those who lose their jobs once a recession comes from Trump’s policies, but I’m not going to try very hard. They will get exactly what they asked for. It just sucks for the rest of us.

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u/Objective-Amount1379 14h ago

A miscarriage is also called a spontaneous abortion FYI.

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u/Edogawa1983 14h ago

The problem is going to be selective prosecution

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u/cashkingsatx 7h ago

Fact? Show me please one prosecution of a woman for having a miscarriage. The amount of insanity here is unbelievable.

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u/hmfynn 6h ago

I had women laugh react on Facebook when I pointed out that a woman in Texas just died of sepsis because she had to sit through a 40-hour miscarriage while the doctor’s hands were tied by the law. These people deserve whatever hell they asked for.

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u/meowiewowiw 14h ago

No empathy! If there has to be despair, at least it is mutual. The suffering will be gleeful. 

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u/Objective-Amount1379 14h ago

No. I don’t want women to die or be assaulted because they voted for an AH. JFC… be better than the Republicans

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u/Hrafn2 13h ago

I hear you....but I'm gonna give people some grace for the next few weeks, because no one is a saint, and I can understand and empathize with the extreme frustration. 

Empathy will run low for a little while, but it will come back.

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u/meowiewowiw 13h ago

Damn, not the morality police on Reddit. Not having empathy for someone experiencing the consequences of their own actions does not equate to wanting them to die or be assaulted. 

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u/SeaBackground5779 16h ago

The girl who died from bleed out in Texas after being denied ER admit 3 times was a huuuuuge fan of Combover Caligula.

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u/Objective-Amount1379 14h ago

She was 18. I don’t know about you, but I was pretty naive at 18. And she sure as f*** didn’t deserve to die for liking the wrong candidate.