Alabama Cites Roe Decision to Let State Ban Trans Health Care

Wednesday, June 29, 2022

Alabama's attorney general Steve Marshall (R) on Tuesday urged a federal court to drop its block on the state's ban on gender-affirming care for trans youth arguing such care is not protected by the Constitution.

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Contraception, trans rights, gay marriage--none of them are "deeply rooted" in our nation's history and therefore are no longer protected under the 14th Amendment, according to the current SC reasoning, so all are potentially at risk in future SC rulings.

#1 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2022-06-29 07:13 AM | Reply

All you people who sat out 2016 or voted for Stein are responsible for this.

But her emails.....

#2 | Posted by Nixon at 2022-06-29 10:14 AM | Reply

#1 | POSTED BY GAL_TUESDAY

Saw a headline that they might gut the EPA today.

We're going back to the 1890's whether we want to or not.

#3 | Posted by jpw at 2022-06-29 10:23 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Yeah, I forgot about that one. Climate change isn't in the Constitution or "deeply rooted" in our nation's history, so need to concern ourselves with that.

#4 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2022-06-29 10:37 AM | Reply

Slavery is "deeply rooted" in American History, think they'll make that legal again in Alabama?

#5 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2022-06-29 11:40 AM | Reply

AR-15s are of course "deeply rooted" in American history.

#6 | Posted by snoofy at 2022-06-29 11:45 AM | Reply

Terry Stops are "deeply rooted" in American history too. Right, Republicans?

#7 | Posted by snoofy at 2022-06-29 11:48 AM | Reply

"Saw a headline that they might gut the EPA today."

Which, in a sane universe, would be particularly troublesome for Republicans, seeing as their moral and ideological leader Richard Nixon created that agency.

#8 | Posted by snoofy at 2022-06-29 12:17 PM | Reply

Saw a headline that they might gut the EPA today.

They're not going to "gut" the EPA, dumbass.

They're just going to bitch slap it and put it back in its place with regards to forcing huge swaths of the economy to "decarbonize".

#9 | Posted by Mao_Content at 2022-06-29 12:23 PM | Reply

They're just going to bitch slap it and put it back in its place with regards to forcing huge swaths of the economy to "decarbonize".

#9 | Posted by Mao_Content

So the Environmental Protection Agency should stop protecting the environment?

#10 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2022-06-29 12:28 PM | Reply

So the Environmental Protection Agency should stop protecting the environment?

Of course not, -----------.

They just need to be reminded that they're simply a federal bureaucracy that needs to operate within their authority.

#11 | Posted by Mao_Content at 2022-06-29 12:38 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"gut" the EPA
vs
bitch slap it and put it back in its place with regards to forcing huge swaths of the economy to "decarbonize".

^
Is there a difference between these two things?

#12 | Posted by snoofy at 2022-06-29 12:40 PM | Reply

They just need to be reminded that they're simply a federal bureaucracy that needs to operate within their authority.

#11 | Posted by Mao_Content

What would you like them to stop doing?

#13 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2022-06-29 01:06 PM | Reply

"Is there a difference between these two things?"

Let's see... if you had to choose between one of those two things happening to you, would you prefer one over the other?

#14 | Posted by sentinel at 2022-06-29 01:14 PM | Reply

All you people who sat out 2016 or voted for Stein are responsible for this.

All you people who insisted on running an entitled candidate and deemed it, her turn, and didn't care that she was running a tone deaf campaign... this is your fault.

#15 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2022-06-29 01:21 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

#2 | POSTED BY NIXON

Anyone that supported Clinton in the primary that year is similarly responsible for disenfranchising the democratic base.

At this point, it's starting to look like the clinton-democrats wanted trump to win strictly for down-ballot fundraising purposes.

#16 | Posted by IndianaJones at 2022-06-29 01:22 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

They just need to be reminded that they're simply a federal bureaucracy that needs to operate within their authority.

#11 | POSTED BY MAO_CONTENT

Since when is regulating emissions from industry not with the EPA's purview?

Or is CO2 somehow different than H2S, mercury ect ect?

#17 | Posted by jpw at 2022-06-29 02:26 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

Mao, you MUST have some oil securities huh?
Trying to protect those 'dirty little investments'?

The EPA's purview IS the ENVIRONMENT and its health.
The Fossil Fuel Industry is bad for the Environment. Period. Full stop.
Thus, alternate fuel sources have been researched, proven
viable, and have to a limited (but increasing) degree,
been implemented. The ONLY way out of increase atmospheric
destruction of the biosphere (that part of the planet we live in)
is through increased funding and pace of alternative energy
production and implementation. And no rightwing politics or
wish fulfillment will change that fact. So if you don't want a
constantly warming planet, one that is increasingly uninhabitable,
I suggest you get with the program...

#18 | Posted by earthmuse at 2022-06-30 06:19 AM | Reply

I see you have talked yourself into your own argument, Earth.

#19 | Posted by boaz at 2022-07-01 09:42 AM | Reply