When Republicans have control, abortion will be illegal. If the state flips back, then it will be legal again. Back and forth with no consistency. That's why stare decisis is important and there needs to be a national standard for some issues. Remember what a shitshow California had when they approved gay marriage then took it away?
The problem with letting the states decide
by Anonymous | reply 1 | June 25, 2022 12:01 AM |
That's what's wrong with America in general -- despite the Civil War, it's never resolved the issue of states' rights. The Constitution provides that the federal government controls only a few areas of law, with everything else left to the states. As time goes by, more and more subjects are taken over by the federal government through Constitutional amendment and/or Congressional legislation and/or Supreme Court decisions, but those solutions aren't necessarily permanent (as we've see today). And they take a very long time -- abolition of slavery not until 1865, school integration not until 1954, inter-racial marriage not until 1967, same-sex marriage not until 2015. Meanwhile, we have a patchwork of 50 different laws, which is inefficient at best. Other countries don't labor under this burden but it's built into the U.S. system by design.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | June 25, 2022 12:01 AM |