Quote (inkanddagger @ Sep 22 2020 07:52pm)

I’m Christian actually. A real one.

Quote (Black XistenZ @ Sep 22 2020 02:41pm)

That's at least partially true: a president Clinton would have replaced Scalia with a liberal, and chosen RBG's successor. (In this scenario, RBG would have happily retired earlier this year when they found the lesions in her lung and it became clear she didnt have much time left.)

Hence, had evangelicals and all other sorts of people of faith not held their nose in 2016 and voted for the sinner-incarnate Trump, then a liberal majority (of at least 5-4) on the SCOTUS would have been enshrined, and any push to overturn Roe v. Wade or otherwise limit the status quo on abortions would have been in vain for decades.

So while voting for Trump has not stopped abortions outright, it has kept the chance to do so alive and actually gotten movement conservatives faaar closer to their goal of overturning Roe.

Quote (inkanddagger @ 23 Sep 2020 03:41)

Men like Trump can and will always be able to pay for abortions. Any ban will only affect the lower classes. I guess Republicans want lots of black thugs being born to overrun their neighborhoods. Who knew?

Quote (Black XistenZ @ Sep 22 2020 10:05pm)

Fun fact: in the 60s, there was a brief moment in time when conservative whites were pro-abortion for this exact reason before they did a 180° on religious grounds.

Quote (ofthevoid @ 23 Sep 2020 04:09)

The founder of planned parenthood Margaret Sanger was actually a huge racist and advocated for eugenics. She literally argued for abortions to thin out blacks.

https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/5480192002

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she advanced a controversial "Negro Project," wrote in her autobiography about speaking to a Ku Klux Klan group and advocated for a eugenics approach to breeding for “the gradual suppression, elimination and eventual extinction, of defective stocks — those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization.”

Quote (ofthevoid @ Sep 22 2020 09:09pm)

The founder of planned parenthood Margaret Sanger was actually a huge racist and advocated for eugenics. She literally argued for abortions to thin out blacks.

https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/5480192002

Quote (Black XistenZ @ Sep 22 2020 09:16pm)

:o

Quote (Thor123422 @ Sep 22 2020 07:20pm)

Yep, a lot of people around that time were. We like to pretend we were better, but America was hugely into Eugenics before WW2. Several states, including I think Georgia, had mandatory sterilization programs.

Quote (thundercock @ Sep 22 2020 10:02pm)

But teaching that in our schools is liberal indoctrination!

Quote (thundercock @ Sep 22 2020 11:02pm)

But teaching that in our schools is liberal indoctrination!