b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social

i remain struck by the similarity between recent anti-abortion laws and antebellum efforts to shore up slavery, from the gag order in congress to the state bans on the distribution of anti-slavery literature to the fugitive slave act. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/17/o...

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solvognen @solvognen.bsky.social [ View ] May 17, 2024 at 19:24 UTC

Hadn't quite registered with me that way before, now I can't unsee it - you're right. 🫥

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DW @dustyworm.bsky.social [ View ] May 17, 2024 at 21:57 UTC

There was a reason for the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution. At that time and a few decades later it had its teeth pulled. It wasn't till the 1960s that it was used to enforce the US Bill of Rights on all the States of the USA.

www.law.cornell.edu/constitution...

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Friendly Neighborhood Murdercat @shanzival.bsky.social [ View ] May 18, 2024 at 00:05 UTC

The song and dance remains the same, only the lyrics change.

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b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social [ View ] May 17, 2024 at 19:04 UTC

one might say that broad and ever expanding restrictions on liberty are necessary when the state claims the right to revoke the bodily autonomy of those within its domain

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Wool-Encased Tea Addict @passeriform.bsky.social [ View ] May 17, 2024 at 20:19 UTC

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social [ View ] May 17, 2024 at 20:05 UTC

Clearly there is a constitution right to (anything right-wingers like), and not for (anything right-wingers dislike).

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social [ View ] May 17, 2024 at 20:40 UTC

A lot of the earliest abortion laws in the United States were in direct response to Reconstruction, or mass immigration from countries like Ireland and Italy. They were all about fear of the “wrong kind of people” having too many children.

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JoyComethInTheMorning @sheadapts.bsky.social [ View ] May 18, 2024 at 21:15 UTC

If it's not one group, it's the other group.

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Patricia Kayden @kaydenpat.bsky.social [ View ] May 17, 2024 at 19:37 UTC

Fugitive Pregnant Slave Act.

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Lightning Fox @lightningfox.bsky.social [ View ] May 17, 2024 at 23:13 UTC

I refuse to make an account for the NYT so I can’t actually read it but I cannot see how this is a serious question

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Tommy @tommyg.bsky.social [ View ] May 17, 2024 at 21:07 UTC

There are a lot of horrible historical rhymes. Let's do Reconstruction again. Some jerkwads didn't let us finish last time.

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Miss Mastermind @missmastermind.bsky.social [ View ] May 17, 2024 at 19:54 UTC

The end goal of conservatism is the reinstatement of slavery.

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