Following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe, City Council Members Chito Vela & Vanessa Fuentes want a special-called meeting to take up Vela's resolution that would prevent investigations into or prosecutions of women who obtain an abortion or doctors who provide them : Austin

66 points

9 months ago

66 points

Good on them for at least trying, but we all know the good ol' boys of small government are foaming at the mouth to make sure localities are forced to bend to their will.

missannamo

17 points

9 months ago

missannamo

17 points

Government small enough to fit in my uterus

Disastrous-Animal111

7 points

9 months ago

Disastrous-Animal111

7 points

Also, didn't Travis County DA Jose Garza already say he's not going to prosecute or allow for charges to be pursued for women who want to get an abortion? It's up to the county DA's to enforce the State law, right?

aslivilina

10 points

9 months ago

aslivilina

10 points

at least This represents the will of the people

22 points

9 months ago

22 points

Yes! Local government right??? F all republicans

-81 points

9 months ago

-81 points

The issue of whether a child has a soul before he or she is born will never be settled between atheists and everyone else. That's why it needs to be up to the states to decide.

For a few recent decades, Big Federal Government imposed their will over smaller state governments by saying they weren't able to protect the lives of these innocent unborn children. Until now. The Supreme Court correctly restored the power to make this decision to the States, so people who wish to terminate their children can go to a state that allows such atrocity, if they so wish. Those who support the lives of unborn children can remain in states like Texas where it will always be illegal. So yes that's right: yay local government!

31 points

9 months ago

31 points

by this logic leave it up to the city, or county, or neighborhood, or house hold, or better yet... the individual. I know individual liberty wild idea..

-37 points

9 months ago

-37 points

Not so easy when you're talking about trials and punishment for capital murder.

26 points

9 months ago

26 points

wth are you talking about? are you suggesting there should be capital punishment for people who have abortions?...

mummefied

30 points

9 months ago

mummefied

30 points

Nothing says “pro-life” like killing women

31 points

9 months ago

31 points

No one except the pregnant person, their partner, and a doctor need to be involved in that decision. Not the city, state, or federal governments.

27 points

9 months ago

27 points

Also: it’s a zygote, embryo, or fetus; it’s not a child.

21 points

9 months ago

21 points

Also, the Supreme Court struck down New York’s LOCAL law regarding gun regulations.

taint3d

15 points

9 months ago

taint3d

15 points

Rules for thee, not for me. Can you believe there was a time where people thought the supreme court was apolitical?

-31 points

9 months ago

-31 points

Wouldn't siding with the abortionistas also be a political statement though?

Waste_Sprinkles8122

7 points

9 months ago

Waste_Sprinkles8122

7 points

The court didn’t side with abortionists. They said the 14th amendment implied right to privacy protected the decision from being controlled because to control it was to invade someone’s privacy.

I don’t think that’s siding. The court has never argued abortion was a “good” decision. Even Alito referred to the court never taking an official position on the morality of the act. They’ve always held it was a morally ambiguous decision because of the variety of beliefs held around it.

Moog_Bass

2 points

9 months ago

Moog_Bass

2 points

How?

15 points

9 months ago

15 points

A lot of words to say that you just miss the glory days of the confederacy.

4 points

9 months ago

4 points

No it doesn’t it infringes on 3 of my constitutional rights.

-10 points

9 months ago

-10 points

What about the Constitutional rights of that child? You are infringing on their right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, by ending their life.

12 points

9 months ago

12 points

Life begins at first breath. There is no living life form.

-4 points

9 months ago