BF2S Forums Abortion effectivly ended in Texas

bad. it was clearly religion based, they lied (as every politician does, no matter your allegiance or state) and said it wasn't.

and pro choice.

I'm Pro-Life and I think it was a great decision.  This issue is also one of the reasons I'm a strong advocate of states rights.  Texas is an overwhelmingly conservative state as well as a religious state.  Whether you agree with conservatism or religion, the fact of the matter is that the majority of people in Texas believe in these things and the laws and policies should follow what the majority wants.  That's what Texas did and I think it's great.

OK so now, apparently, the bill failed and was misreported.  Filibuster failed, then the reason for the filibuster failing failed, then they actually failed to vote, then..........something something fail.

Everyone is confused and full of FAIL.  See you again in 6 months abortion bill.

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Extra Medium wrote:

OK so now, apparently, the bill failed and was misreported.  Filibuster failed, then the reason for the filibuster failing failed, then they actually failed to vote, then..........something something fail.

Everyone is confused and full of FAIL.  See you again in 6 months abortion bill.

why do you care so much that mothers in a state you don't live in want to terminate early-term pregnancies?

Extra Medium wrote:

I'm Pro-Life and I think it was a great decision.  This issue is also one of the reasons I'm a strong advocate of states rights.  Texas is an overwhelmingly conservative state as well as a religious state.  Whether you agree with conservatism or religion, the fact of the matter is that the majority of people in Texas believe in these things and the laws and policies should follow what the majority wants.  That's what Texas did and I think it's great.

Is that why your type are always blathering about closing the borders and bitching about anchor babies? You contradict yourself. In previous posts you've called this country a republic, not a democracy. A republic lessens the impact of what the mob wants. The majority doesn't matter. Everything comes down to what our representatives want, and that is often quite different from what you or I want.

There is no comparison to be made with france, if only they were more cerebral and analytical.

as for what happened in Texas, it's just proof of the fact that some pretty large parts of the USA are still some 50 years behind the rest of the western world in terms of social development. Ugh.

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Well, can't disagree with that.

when did i say 'more intellectual weight'? more complex? what? the right is a politics of ACTING - look at its extreme version, fascism. a politics of pure acting. the will to power. etc. the left has been tied up in theoretical issues and stagnant for decades. no action. that's all i'm saying. where did i mention universities or difficulty? how odd.

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Pretty controversial as I understand it. Senator Wendy Davis filibustered the thing, it was a bit of a mess and the bill's opponents started celebrating as the clock hit midnight without a vote being cast. Then the Senate voted on the bill anyway and passed it, effectively breaking their own rules. Will be interesting to see how it all plays out.

Honestly I hope that it doesn't get overturned due to a technicality on a filibuster.  I'm not a fan of filibusters as it is pretty much always the will of the few trying to beat out the will of many by using a technical loophole.  So for a technicality to be called on a technical tactic...well that just goes to show one of the blaring issues with our system.

I don't like the idea of filibusters either, it seems a needlessly exhausting way to undermine democracy. Thing is that democracy isn't the best way to serve the interests of the minority - in this case women, (who are really the majority though not in terms of holding political office.) There's that analogy, "democracy is three wolves and a sheep voting on who to have for dinner."

Here you have a woman standing up for woman's rights in a male dominated arena, it wasn't really something that was going to be solved by a democratic vote. While I don't like the process, a filibuster was justifiable.

I'm glad the cluster-fuck of technicalities meant the bill failed to pass this time around but I don't approve of the process of causing it to fail either. I guess that's what I'm trying to say.

Well, the media on this one is a little out of control.  The bill had two aspects, one of which was to require upgrades to the facilities that provide these services.  I think its ridiculous to allow these clinics to perform an abortion when they are equipped around the same level as a Doc-in-a-box and well below a minor surgery center.

Uzique The Lesser wrote:

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Uzique The Lesser wrote:

when did i say 'more intellectual weight'? more complex? what? the right is a politics of ACTING - look at its extreme version, fascism. a politics of pure acting. the will to power. etc. the left has been tied up in theoretical issues and stagnant for decades. no action. that's all i'm saying. where did i mention universities or difficulty? how odd.

What great issues exist today? Slums and tenements? Gone. Sweatshops? Gone. Food safety? Gone, no matter what the anti-GMO crowd thinks. Wealth disparity? Never going away.

The only stuff left are issues that impact tiny minorities like gay marriage. There's no reason to create mass movements. Hell, you were forced to protest college tuition going up a modest amount because you had nothing else. The only real issues left are freedom and privacy, but that flies in the face of the government expansion the left wanted to supposedly fix issues that never really existed.

wow. fucking rofl.

also 'modest amount'? they TRIPLED. it didn't effect me, by the way. i'm just a little amused that a generation who went to school for FREE are tripling the fees an 18yo will have to pay because of a banking crisis. call me a pedant.

You know im right tho. Theyve tried to make large issues out of stuff that is largely irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. Its made people tune out. What was the ultimate point of OWS? nothing.

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Uzique The Lesser wrote:

Jay wrote:

What great issues exist today? Slums and tenements? Gone. Sweatshops? Gone. Food safety? Gone, no matter what the anti-GMO crowd thinks. Wealth disparity? Never going away.

The only stuff left are issues that impact tiny minorities like gay marriage. There's no reason to create mass movements. Hell, you were forced to protest college tuition going up a modest amount because you had nothing else. The only real issues left are freedom and privacy, but that flies in the face of the government expansion the left wanted to supposedly fix issues that never really existed.

wow. fucking rofl.

also 'modest amount'? they TRIPLED. it didn't effect me, by the way. i'm just a little amused that a generation who went to school for FREE are tripling the fees an 18yo will have to pay because of a banking crisis. call me a pedant.

You know im right tho. Theyve tried to make large issues out of stuff that is largely irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. Its made people tune out. What was the ultimate point of OWS? nothing.

are you trying to suggest OWS is representative of the 'left-wing'? most of OWS were middle-class liberals. that is not left wing politics.

also if you had read marx or engaged with any post-marxist thought you would not make such a stupid comment as "what is there left to argue over?" i hope you realize marxism #101 is 'no change without complete change'. failing that, there's a lot of clever hegelian chicanery (which i'm sure you're familiar with) justifying specific gender- or identity- or niche- issues in post-marxist discourse. which are all still very much relevant.

as to your contention "there are no more slums, there are no more sweatshops, wealth disparity will never change"... i counsel you to look at a local map, look at an atlas, and read a fucking book. wealth disparity of the sort we see nowadays is a very recent phenomenon (in post-democratic europe, at least). as for no more slums or sweatshops... really? just because western capital has exported them abroad, out of sight, doesn't mean they are out of mind for the left-wing. the last words of marx's manifesto are, after all, "workers of the WORLD..."

i am not into left-wing politics and i'm not in support of any party/line. however your comments are utterly retarded, it is plain for anyone to see. no more slums. okay jay. don't forget your home-friends now you're living in your mock-tudor apartment.

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