statements. he s the institutionallist. as the person who said in the louisiana case making it difficult for abortion clinics to operate because admitting privileges for doctors. that was a case in texas where he says i think it s fine to be able to make it hard for abortion doctors to operate by admitting privileges. in louisiana he says well, that s what we said in texas, we got to say it in louisiana. so here in this case where we have not just 50 years of precedent. all that follows it, he and his questioning essentially ignores the precedents and ignores the fact of viability whether or not a fetus can survive on its own is not the conversation. for him to say choice is for him to ignore actual with the legal
very well. just politically what happens when the dog catches the bus and some of those people, instead of being against something, start reading the story of caitlin flanagan wrote today. a lot of people talked about this in the legal context. what 50 years of precedents do giving women fundamental rights that it creates all kinds of expectations of how they re going to live their lives before. it also creates the politics where this issue animated the bases. we do politicize the scotus hearing. there is a giant consensus in the country and what bill clinton defines how americans think of abortion, safe, legal
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states can t completely take away but we ll allow it to pull so far back that it s essentially almost the same. what we did not hear enough about because justices were not asking about it, not because it was not in the lawyer s briefs. 75,000 women get abortions after 15 weeks. that s a lot of women. what casey said was you can t create a burden. 75,000 who may die because you have 6% of women die carrying a child to term, 1% because of abortion. you are putting women s lives on the line. mika? katelyn flanagan is out with a piece in the atlantic entitled dishonesty of the
this is just a reality to reduce the gospel of jesus christ to abortion. i don t know when it happen and how but i do know the southern baptist church was not on the forefront fighting abortion. evangelicals decided this is the one issue that matters whether i love jesus or whether i am a conservative, it s a lie. it s a lie that s been jammed down the throats of believers for the past 30 years. they need to read the new testament and the gospels. they need to read the red letters. and then they need to tell me if that s what defines you as a