SCOTUS officially announced overturning Roe v Wade, ending bodily autonomy for all women in this country

It seems the takeaway is that when a group of people tell you they want to do something, it ceases to be a fallacy and becomes merely listening to them.

Are you not aware that all of these were already considered illegal or unrecognized legally in certain locations and that's exactly why they became supreme court cases in the first place? Or do you think Supreme Court precedent apparates from the ether? 2 of these 3 cases were literally cases against states.

People may not have been talking about these before because the spotlight was on abortion for the Right's moral outrage campaign, but I can guarantee that once the dust settles on abortion, these will all be next for Y'all Qaeda. The culture war isn't allowed to end or the Right ceases to exist.

I'd consider that a big f*cking deal. Is this the justification we're dealing with now?

I don't care actually, but they need to stfu about political issues and stop parroting leftwing stances. If the left wants to wipe out their offspring I'm ok with it. But there are dozens of other websites I can get that information from other then a gaming site.

I don't come to gamespot and IGN to hear about every leftist talking point. That's the problem with you loons though. You demand allegiance at all times and constantly push those agendas in all things.

@Vaasman: perhaps this is a bigger issue than I'm aware of. I just don't see states bringing back those laws (well, maybe for the type of birth control that leads a fertilized egg to die but there would be other types to use).

I see abortion as more of a divisive issue and knew people protesting it before this court decision was leaked, but I haven't heard outrage about gay marriage and birth control in a long time.

@zmanbarzel: to be honest, I'm all for state rights. Not too big on the federal government. You literally can't even do anything when states have radically different cultures and ideologies.

Give states far more power than they have now.

@silentchief: I think you can probably go to another site you want instead of crying about what a site you don't own puts on their first page. Their site, their rules.

My question: What does this have to do with gaming?

SCOTUS didn't end body autonomy for anybody. They're not making law. If you want it to be protected for all people, there's a solution to it, it's called a constitution amendment. Absent that, by law, by the way this country was built, it falls to the states to decide, which is where that decision belongs until such an amendment is created and voted on by the states.

SCOTUS is doing their jobs. If you don't like it, then I don't want to hear anymore "muh democracy!" bullshit. Democracy doesn't guarantee you'll get everything you want.

Wokespot is run by the US Democrat party, not sure what you expect. This site stopped being about gaming many years ago.

How are the 70’s going?

What does that have to do with anything?

GQP already promising a federal abortion ban. So much for the "state's rights" talking point right wingers overs here keep peddling.

Seems a bunch of "protesters" tried to storm the capitol building in Arizona. I am not sure what they are hoping to gain with violence against the state capitol, there's nothing to try to coerce and influence.

The Supreme Court can not grant rights not in the constitution. There is a way to grant rights but it is through legislation. Roe V Wade was a bad ruling the same as Dredd Scott was a bad ruling keeping slavery. You need to understand how your government is set up. It was set up not to make decisions based on emotion.

Legislation, or a constitutional amendment voted by the states. They've made exactly ZERO attempts at either of those things in those past 50 years... and they knew Roe v Wade wasn't going to exist forever. RBG even alluded to that several times.

@rmpumper: they need to take away the ability of the federal government to do anything. These issues, and trade, economy etc should be left up to individual states. Or maybe we should split USA in two. The country is far too divided on things, and sometimes a divorce is the best solution.

@zaryia: What the **** does this even mean lol?? They will pick the "wrong" thing? Because you don't agree with it? They were elected to pass those laws. Stupid thing to say.

@Planeforger: Ah yes because passing something to state govs and giving them the rights to choose what they want at a local level is worse than what the Taliban is doing.

Should have just left it alone. This is just political theater only now it has negative consequences.

Hyperbole aside, it's a back-asswards move; societies should progress, not regress, to a better ideal....and frankly it does put us more in line with Taliban ideals (or Saudi, or Iranian, or....you get the picture) than 21st century Western first-world ideals.

Member when Obama stated that he would codify Abortion rights when he was President with a dominate Democrat House for 2 years? I member! Just like all Established Politicians, they NEVER care for their own or keep ANY promises

This is also why you DON'T vote Blue no matter who

They never kept their promises at all, and Joe Biden was never Pro-Choice or Pro-Abortion

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How is following the law back asswards? It's not in the constitution, it's not written in any laws, that means it falls to the states. That's not regression. Ideology has nothing to do with it. Stats don't matter, your feelings don't matter. SCOTUS' did their job. You people are trying to make all the wrong arguments. If you want to whine about it, whine over the fact nobody in congress has ever felt it necessary to codify anything, despite running on the promises of doing just that, and knowing full well in advance it was only a matter of time before Roe v Wade was gone. But you got nothing credible to whine about the judges over.

Eliciting such a response is one based on emotion rather than a factual grasp on the process and mandate of the court and constitution. This is Civics 101 here. Based on the response to yesterday's ruling, it's clear either the education system has failed a great deal of people or they just fail themselves when the moment is right.

@mrbojangles25: Your california politician Nancy Pelosi had all the time in the world to prevented this. And she’s your democrat because vote blue no matter who, right?

My phone didn't ring last night so that's a good sign. Saw LAPD had some riff-raff and dealt with unrest along with other departments across the country though. We'll see how the weekend goes.

You're not in a gaming forum. There are a lot of those around, go find one.

And how would she prevent this?

So you are one the people who only point out the States part of USA, but always ignore the United part.

And give lots of power on the world stage to Russia and China?

Gee, I dunno, a federal bill voted on when democrats controlled both houses of congress and the presidency which has occurred several times since she has been in office? tell me, how many times has congress voted on a bill to codify Roe v Wade? Several Democrats have promised to. Obama promised to do it... then changed his mind immediately after getting elected. But this shows me those senators have known Roe v Wade wasn't going to be around forever, hence using it to run for office.

So tell me, why hasn't congress ever written or passed a bill on the matter?

... oh yeah, because they don't give a shit.

@horgen: sadly thats going to happen regardless at the rate things are going.

I wonder how this decision will reverberate towards the White House, especially when President Bidens approval has been on a steady dive since taking office. Can he use this to effectively rally/improve his numbers with democrats and independents?

Impeccable logic. It's really democrats' fault that and not republicans for the repealing Roe v Wade. It's not the GOP crafted the laws that challenged it, have it in their party platform, or elected the man responsible for installing the judges that overturned it.

NO, it's Nancy Pelosi's fault for not getting a law passed to combat all of the above.

When exactly? As for this specific issue, I don't think anyone thought the Court would do this. They are, in effect, taking rights away from women. You may not agree with abortion, I don't, but I also can not force people to follow my choices. Government shouldn't either.

I do think this hurts the GOP.

He called Ukraine Part of Russia in another thread and basically said that it's really just a Russian civil war. He has some fairly bad takes on foreign relations and national policy.

Okay lol

When you say that, do you mean this is a bridge too far for moderate Republicans, they lost a lot of the female demographic, or something else?

I'm very sick of the argument that it should be a 'states right', as if these same people aren't also arguing that they're against abortion no matter what (I'm willing to bet the Venn diagram of those groups are a circle). It doesn't tackle the issue and just passes the buck to a local government, at which point, we're still stuck with individual states employing their own flavor of discrimination.

@HoolaHoopMan: wubba lubba dub dub

I posted above that Obama promised to codify abortion, then backtracked on his word. It was nothing but an empty promise you keep supporting

Many Republicans were okay with Roe v Wade. How many suburban women do you think had abortions? Also is this going to come with better child support? That effects men as well.

Also it may galvanize apathetic voters to the polls.

Well, like it or not, it falls to the states to decide, as do most things, as is how this country was built to operate, and as there is nothing in the constitution or any federal laws then by law it falls to the states to decide.

@LJS9502_basic: aren’t you catholic?

Probably not that many since Planned Parenthood tends to target minority communities in the inner cities.

Yes. And I don't agree with abortion but I also don't agree with forcing things on others. I don't like when a mother's life is in danger that there is no medical procedure to save their life either.

so brown vs board of,Loving v. Virginia,. should never happen then.

btw the trigger laws in some state

incest,rape,life of mother.. all banned for aborting.

That's why they have to make in law in Congress. Then the SC is unimportant.