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5/10: Biden Job Approval, Rasmussen Reports |
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5/4: Direction of Country, Economist YouGov |
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Daily Beast:Â Inside the Relentless Campaign to Ruin North Carolina Congressman Madison Cawthorn
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Fox:Â Hawley introduces bill to strip 'woke' Disney of special copyright protections and other privileges
Breitbart:Â Democrats Aim to Spend $60B More Taxpayer Dollars During 40-Year-High Inflation
The Blaze:Â Biden's incoming press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called Fox News 'racist'
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US:Â Liberals wail after Musk says he would reinstate Trump on Twitter: âThis hellsite could become even worseâ (Fox News)
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US:Â Biden finally admits soaring inflation a 'real tough problem,' suggests it may get worse (NY Post)
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US:Â 'One of the greatest mysteries of our time': Congress to hold UFO hearing next week (POLITICO)
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LEFT-LEANING SENTIMENT
GOPâs Radical Pursuits Turn Off Voters, Dems Should Pack the Court
- Lacking the votes in Congress to codify the right to abortion at the federal level, the best option Democrats have is packing the court.
- The GOP fought a decades-long battle to overturn Roe v. Wade, but now the issue threatens to turn off voters ahead of the midterms, so the issue is being downplayed.
- Republicans radical desire to ban all abortions and control womenâs bodies will lead to a fight against contraceptives and the eventual criminalization of miscarriages.
âWhat It Will Take to Fix Thisâ Jordan Weissmann, Slate: âIt took conservatives and the religious right nearly 50 years to undo the constitutional right to an abortion. Thanks to the institutional disadvantages working against Democrats, clawing those rights back could very easily become its own generational challenge, long on defense and short on instant gratification. ⊠In the very short term, Democrats lack the votes to enact a federal statute protecting abortion rights. ⊠In order to have the best possible shot of restoring abortion rights nationally, Democrats will likely need to win back control of the Supreme Courtâeither to reestablish a constitutional right to the procedure or bless a federal law codifying Roe. That task will be very, very difficult in the near future, given the relatively young ages of the conservative justices ⊠The most surefire way to do it would be for Democrats to either pack the court or otherwise reform it to reshuffle the high benchâs ideological balance.â
âWith Roe, the GOP is the Dog That Caught the Carâ Alex Shephard, The New Republic: âFor decades, they have been working their voters into frothing hysteria over the need to protect the unborn from abortionists and their Democratic protectors. But what this means in practiceâprosecuting women who have miscarriages, deaths from ectopic pregnancies, a precipitous rise in Americaâs already abysmal childbirth mortality ratesâis far less appealing. From a public health standpoint, the draft decision leaked on Monday is an abomination. From a political standpoint, it imperils midterm victories that were for all intents and purposes inevitable. Some Republicans have applauded the decisionâKristi Noem and Josh Hawley among themâbut many others have kept mum, either focusing on criticizing the leak itself or saying nothing at all. ⊠Senate Republicans ⊠Roe talking points ⊠are lies and efforts to distract from the truth: that Republicans aspire to enact a nationwide ban on all abortions at any point in pregnancy.â
One more opinion piece from the Left: Republicans aren't even bothering to lie about it anymore. They are now coming for birth control Heather Digby Parton, Salon
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RIGHT-LEANING SENTIMENT
Democrats Consider Abortion a Political Winner
- The bill Democrats plan to put to a vote in Congress has stripped out many of the more radical aspects included in 2021âs version, such as discussions of misogyny, racism, and gender identity.
- While some believe the leaked draft and outrage concerning Roe v. Wade will hurt Republicans during the midterms, itâs unlikely because most people do support some restrictions on abortion.
- Democrats have embraced abortion much in the same way ancient pagans thought it proper to throw away deformed or sickly babies.
âDemocrats hide abortion bill radical rootsâ Byron York, Washington Examiner: âThe bill that Schumer will force to a vote on Wednesday ⊠was introduced last year, long before any leaked Supreme Court draft ⊠But the 2022 version ⊠is not the 2021 version of the bill. Not by a long shot. With abortion now center stage, Democrats have made a lot of changes to their abortion-legalizing bill. ⊠One particularly notable part of the 2021 bill is its tortured use of the words âwomenâ and âwoman.â ⊠âThe terms ⊠used in this bill to reflect the identity of the majority of people targeted and affected by restrictions on abortion services and to address squarely the targeted restrictions on abortion, which are rooted in misogyny,â ⊠That stuff about Reproductive Justice? ⊠Nonbinary people? ⊠White supremacy? Nowhere to be found. Now that Democrats know the public will be watching, thanks to the Supreme Court leak, they don't want people to see what they really think about abortion.â
âWatch out, Democrats. The abortion ruling may help Republicans.â Marc A. Thiessen, The Washington Post Op-ed: âDemocrats seem convinced that if the Supreme Court does in fact overturn Roe v. Wade, the decision would provide them with a political lifeline before the November midterm elections. ⊠Donât be so sure. ⊠Yes, polls show that most Americans say they donât want the high court to overturn Roe. But polls also show that most Americans donât know what overturning Roe actually means. A 2019 study reported that 65.7 percent of Americans incorrectly believe that if Roe were overturned, abortion would be illegal everywhere in the United States. It would not. But a Fox News poll released this week finds most Americans agree with the Mississippi abortion law at the heart of the Supreme Court case. The survey found that 54 percent favor state laws banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy, except in the case of a medical emergency â exactly what the Mississippi law does.â
One more opinion piece from the Right: Overturning Roe Howard Sachs, American Thinker
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FLAG THIS
Nearly 6 in 10 Americans Support Federal Abortion Law
Polling conducted last week found 58% of US adults support a federal law making abortion legal nationwide, while 42% were opposed (CBS News/YouGov).
Meanwhile, in a survey gathered last month prior to when the Supreme Court draft opinion was leaked, 59% of US adults said abortion should be legal in âall or most cases,â while 39% said the opposite. Those percentages have held steady for the past several years (Pew Research).
Flag Poll:Â Do you support a federal law codifying the right to get an abortion? Join our discussion here.
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I donât support and never have supported the Federal takeover of abortion rights. The power should go back to the sates where it belongs. The wild accusations the left is saying about Republicans and abortion is just so crazy! I used to at least understand the points Democrats made but over the last 8 or 9 years the things Democrats are saying is completely insane. People need to get a reality check and know when they are being lied to.
I absolutely disagree with making abortion federally approved across this nation. I still have a real problem with people even considering the act of abortion. Itâs the killing of a human life, we protect dogs and elephants and many other creatures higher and more importantly than humans. One more thing to think about, just because rape or incest has occurred, the life form that was started as a result of one of those actions is still a human life. The time to stop abortion is before the act of marriage. Which means before sexual activity, that is the choice. I believe most people who have abortions use it as a type of birth control and thatâs just totally wrong. There are many other methods and types of birth control that could be used where a life form, a human life form, is not started/conceived. Wake up America before itâs too late.
I agree, Tim. Abortion is being used as birth control and that is simply wrong. Birth control is easily available. If you donât want to get pregnant all you have to do is use it. Abortion is murder. Roe vs. Wade should never have been law. Itâs not legal and should be overturned.
Prior to Roe, each state codified their own particular approach to this most difficult issue. If Roe is overruled, the issue will return to the states. In my opinion this is where it belongs.
This is fine going to the states as long as it only codifies abortion only for serious medical concerns (i.e. imminent death) for the woman carrying the child. Otherwise, it is murder and those getting and performing abortions for any other reason should be held on charges of first-degree murder and that should be codified as well. Abortion has become an excuse for those supposedly âhumanâ women who donât take care of themselves enough to get birth control. These women are worse than animals because even animals donât practice abortion. Not only do they desire to kill those that canât protect themselves, but they also threaten their opponents as well with violence which could lead to death. Like animal abuse, it all becomes a slippery downward slope and they are on their way down.
This is correcting a federal overreach and returning the power to decide back to the state level where it should have been all along. I am so sick of all the ugly talk from both sides of this issue. Take it to the voters and let them decide unless we are, if fact, no longer a true DemocracyâŠ..