I agree, this is horrible, and I hope it gets stopped cold, because, yes if it happens in Mississippi, it increases the chances of it happening in other parts of the States.
Unlikely it could happen here, though, not without decades of other legal changes (backwards) happening first. The US is weird about giving someone something and then whipping it right back. California recognizes the right of gay people to marry and then suddenly they don't have it anymore? That makes no legal sense. And the articles I've been reading about this seems to state that the right to abortion is synonymous to the Roe v Wade case. And maybe it is, I haven't read any of that. But here, the rights to an abortion and to make various life choices are tied up in a bunch of cases and laws. You'd have to go after all of them. Finally, this isn't something that could happen here on a provincial level, it would need to go federal. I am horrified and baffled that in American a single state can create its own definition of life that differs from the rest of the country.
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Date: 2011-10-13 03:58 pm (UTC)Unlikely it could happen here, though, not without decades of other legal changes (backwards) happening first. The US is weird about giving someone something and then whipping it right back. California recognizes the right of gay people to marry and then suddenly they don't have it anymore? That makes no legal sense. And the articles I've been reading about this seems to state that the right to abortion is synonymous to the Roe v Wade case. And maybe it is, I haven't read any of that. But here, the rights to an abortion and to make various life choices are tied up in a bunch of cases and laws. You'd have to go after all of them. Finally, this isn't something that could happen here on a provincial level, it would need to go federal. I am horrified and baffled that in American a single state can create its own definition of life that differs from the rest of the country.