Roe v. Wade Decision

This whole thread is way better than an watching an America soap opera like "Days of Our Lives" or an episode from "Dynasty" or a tele  novella!

Except this is real life. United we stand, divided we fall! The US is falling it seems.

Even here opinions are like the Grand Canyon!

Vote purple 😀

The thing with talking about politics is that people always get their knickers in a twist! (UK saying)

This is likely to become a  never-ending story...shows how people can get divided over issues that get overblown. (Depends on which side of the fence one sits on.) Although this is an important issue, are mountains being made out of molehills? (It seems like that.) I don't live in the states, so I can't really say anything about this issue, (the media representation also depends on the viewpoint they want to promote) suffice to say that opinions are getting so divided, that the chasm is like the Grand Canyon! 

Inter-racial marriage has never been banned and has never been a problem here, even if you go back 500 years.
People do what they want.

In France, racism is not an opinion, it is a criminal offence punishable by heavy penalties.

I don't want to discuss the delay but just to specify that it is not "French", it is the one recommended by the EU which has been applied in order to harmonize.

If you know France well you should know two things:
- the law provides for so many exceptions (vaguely defined) that in practice the delay is not often a problem. 😉
- in public hospitals it is completely free, for all, without exception. Even for uninsured foreigners.

"And what a disgusting not to mention inaccurate and over the top illustration."

This is the principle of the caricature.

🙂

You guys. I'm pro-choice but Roe was always on shaky constitutional grounds (so is Obergefell). It was passed by an activist court and has always been vuinerable. All the court did is to say that the federal government has no place in it and that they're handing it back to the states where it belongs and where it always was before. Nobody is banning abortion. Before Roe, it was illegal in my state, and people just drove across the state line to do this.

And as for la Libération, hate to tell them but France has a 14-week abortion ban. A total BAN nationwide. That is not what we're doing here.  And before 2021 it was 10 weeks. They only extended it to 12 weeks last year and only very recently to 14 weeks. Frenchwomen have to travel ABROAD to get abortions. And they do so. And here we are losing it because we have to drive to another state, which is how it always was before.  I went to school in France briefly and worked for Air France for 11 years and went there al the time so I am sorry but  have to laugh sometimes. And what a disgusting not to mention inaccurate and over the top illustration. EW. Now everybody just breathe. I'm sure there are actual causes you can devote yourselves to if you need one so badly.

Found in Libération, a French newspaper.

Coco is also a press cartoonist for Charlie Hebdo.

https://www.liberation.fr/idees-et-debats/editorial/recul-de-lavortement-aux-etats-unis-une-guerre-declaree-contre-les-femmes-20220625_TRSKXVYCJRGI7CFLRDQATTMGWY/

Since the ruling and even before it, corporations have stepped up to help cover  expenses for employees who must travel out of state to receive proper healthcare services.  Among them Redit, Tesla, Condé Nast, Google, Warner Bros, Disney, Meta, Starbucks, Johnson & Johnson, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Levi Strauss, Uber, Lyft, Zillow and many others. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/24/business/abortion-companies-travel-expenses.html

Adobe, which had previously said its health care policy covered travel expenses for abortions, said: “We have and will always prioritize inclusive benefits to create a world-class culture for our employees.”

Safe-harbor states like California, Oregon, Washington, Maryland, New York and Massachusetts have already begun ramping-up to accommodate the expected influx of patients traveling from red states.

There is a proposal to issue federal travel vouchers and child care assistance to women who need to go out-of-state.  Another proposal could establish safe-harbor clinics on federal owned lands. 

A small group of Democrats are also proposing a bill called the Health and Location Data Protection Act  -- a $1 billion federal push to keep women's medical and reproductive healthcare data private in a post-Roe world.  

There's much work ahead.  And the minority wackadoodles can pound sand. 😬 

Vote blue in 2022!