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if you're just halfway serious, perhaps its time to seek some medical help

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They published the plan and its pretty much what the parent comment said.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025

The GOP wants fascism everywhere

That’s a bit of an extreme comment “seeking medical help” but to be fair I’m only aware of the “to 1953” legislation and not the additional “to 1853” legislation.

Are you aware that Arizona recently reinstated an abortion ban from 1864?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/09/us/arizona-abortion-ban.h...

did they actually reinstate? isnt it just that newer legislation was made illegal, and it DEFAULTED back to this, where there is proposals by republicans to make legislation that in many ways mirrors most EU countries, but that is unacceptable to the democrats?

"just that".... the newer legislation was made illegal by Republicans, and Republicans decided the 1864 law is still valid. This is how you roll back the country 160 years. And it's not just that this particular law is literally from 1864, it's that even new laws are mirroring these 160 year old laws. Many have no exception for rape, incest, or the life of the mother [1]. That's barbaric.

The reason that Democrats find all of this unacceptable is that Republicans have either failed to anticipate the chaotic consequences of their actions, or -- as they argue in court in support for jail terms for people who have abortions, and that doctors should not have exception in the case of life of the mother or rape -- that they intend the chaos and resulting harm to women. As people suffer and die due to their actions, it's not hard to see why rolling back laws to 1864 is objectionable to Democrats.

I appreciate you bringing up EU countries, but if we are striving to emulate them, we should strive to match their maternal mortality rates by providing adequate healthcare to pregnant people [2]. Instead, by upending abortion rights in this country, we are worsening these trends. You can't use the EU as a benchmark if you're not willing to implement EU-like healthcare and social services in the US.

[1] https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/issue-brief/a-revie...

[2] https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2...

its very obvious that you are grossly misrepresenting things. If you have an old law that for whatever reason was there, and a newer one is removed, this is how it works. And to suggest that the republicans decided to roll back to 1864 is simply dishonest and intentional misrepresentation. This is the exact sort of thing that makes compromises less likely to happen. One side will GROSSLY misrepresent what the other side does, making conversation and compromise impossible.

Also, you are wrong. The week-number cutoff for abortion for example can EASILY be used as a benchmark for what should be allowed, regardless of what other healthcare is available. I am not from the US, nor am I a supporter of the republican OR democratic party, but it is blindingly obvious that the democrats are WAY less willing to compromise on anything than the republicans, and attempts to use emotion and misrepresent to extreme levels, and on this particular issue, its very obvious that democrats are the obstructionists and extremists, and 100% unwilling to go out of their reality distortion field. On other issues, republicans are insane, but it is a different insane (and different does NOT mean less). And more importantly, NONE of these parties are good for the people, both are abominations that only serve their own agenda

lol so many words to say you’re not American and understand us.

i would bet im way more informed than the majority of americans..

how many americans know who the vice president is? how many can even point to DC on a map?

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