Re:The future of privacy rights in a post-Roe world
by sandworm101 on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @01:53PM
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A constitutional amendment to enshrine a right to privacy/abortion is about as likely as Texas leaving the union to become part of Canada.
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Re:The future of privacy rights in a post-Roe world
by commandlinefan on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @03:33PM
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Not sure if you're right or wrong, but either way - far from destroying democracy, that is democracy in action. If the majority wants abortion, we get abortion. If the majority doesn't, we don't.
Re:The future of privacy rights in a post-Roe world
by trs8080 on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @04:20PM
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But the United States can hardly be called a democracy with gerrymandering, unelected federal judges, unequal representation for populous states in congress, and the electoral college.
The majority does want abortion rights, but those rights aren't coming. That's not democracy in action.
Re:The future of privacy rights in a post-Roe world
by sandworm101 on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @06:57PM
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It isn't a democracy. It is a republic. It is rule by the people via a very specific system, one that isn't about simple majority rule.
Re:The future of privacy rights in a post-Roe world
by Fatnino on Thursday June 30, 2022 @04:47AM
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Also known as not something that actually works
Re:The future of privacy rights in a post-Roe world
by mcphage on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @09:52PM
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> If the majority wants abortion, we get abortion. If the majority doesn't, we don't.
The majority does want abortion, and yet we just lost it.
> far from destroying democracy, that is democracy in action
Do you still believe this, given that your next sentence is patently false?