Overturning Roe v Wade is good. It will DESTROY the red states

[Proud2BAmurkin]

The blue states will allow abortions, the red states will ban them and be over run with expenses and crime associated with unwanted births. Their economies and their quality of life will shrivel up and destroy them. The skilled people will flee those states and move to the blue states.

[htuttle]

1. But I don't WANT to live next to Afghanistan

Besides, troubles like that tend to spill over the borders.

[Gato Moteado]

7. just put a big fence up around the blue states.....

...with a sign that says "no freepers allowed"

[Feathered Fish]

2. I'm not

really into that experiment. Let's find another way.

[slackmaster]

3. It's not going to happen

:argh:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

4. red states have people too

we may hate them now...but honestly you are talking about little children being raised to be criminals...willfully and deliberately...

[Kazak]

5. That's good?

:eyes:

[Caution]

6. If they overturn Roe v Wade they will pass a federal law

banning abortion.

[Proud2BAmurkin]

10. They won't because they would lose the Purple states

.

[bluetrain]

13. They rig the elections, they have whatever they want

[Proud2BAmurkin]

14. good point

.

[theorist]

8. It won't be pretty for the blue states either.

There is a large imbalance in social programs right now. The red states are being funded by the labors of the blue staters. It would get much worse (for the reasons you list) if it does happen.

[Not Me]

9. There's a great lead article on salon.com about secession

which gets into state's rights process.

Check it out at http://www.salon.com

[flowomo]

11. I wouldn't be too certain all the blue states will allow abortions...

in fact, I would expect many of them to curtail access. Shit, most people would vote against the Bill of Rights if it was up for a vote. Access to abortion is only safe as long as it has the weight of the constitution behind it... and that means the Supreme Court.

[Cat Atomic]

12. What? Republicans tossing away their favorite wedge issue?

Only if they have no other choice. In that sense, I suppose the issue of overturning Roe v Wade could be a way of determining the real influence of the fundamentalists in the Republican Party.

[northzax]

18. true dat

which is why they love the gay marriage thing, gives them something they can throw to the wolves while still teasing them with abortion.

[Cheswick2.0]

15. no

figure out one of your constitutional protections you'd like to give away instead. RVW is constitutional, the court keeps upholding it. Perhaps your right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness would be a better compromise/political trick.

[Proud2BAmurkin]

17. I don't want it overturned just saying if it is it will do a lot of good

.

[Mandate My Ass]

20. It will do a great deal of real -life harm

for a very chancy perceived political gain.

No thanks.

[hyphenate]

16. That would take way too long

Long before that, the country would be dead and figuratively buried.

[L84TEA]

19. PLEASE I just cringe...

The thought of this makes me seriously ill.
If a person is even considering abortion, they should probably have one. ya know?
UGh.. makes me ill to think these THUGS want all these unwanted children to be born, BUT DO YOU SEE THEM FILLING THEIR HOMES WITH CRACK BABIES??? NOOOOOO!!!
sickos.

[Warpy]

21. Don't kid yourself about that

Enough of the "blue" states will have preachers working overtime to convince the socially liberal that abortion is murder that those "blue" states will be vulnerable to the new slavery, too.

What we'll have is two or three states that allow it, which means the rich and the upper middle class will maintain their access, but the ordinary people in the majority of states will be forced to seek out amateur abortionists.

The push to legalize abortion in the 60s and 70s was spearheaded by religious people. I know it's hard to believe, but religious people were the ones called to emergency rooms to minister to butchered and dying women.

Remember, wherever it happens, antiabortion legislation only stops the safe abortions. Antiabortion laws kill women, and nobody wants that to happen but the misogynists.

[Moderator]

22. Locking.

Inflammatory.