• cygnus@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    Roe v Wade “race”? Does that refer to the 49 years during which nobody did anything to enshrine that right? Slowest race I’ve ever seen.

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      1 month ago

      That’s the danger of protecting rights only by judicial doctrine. It forestalls actual legislative attempts to create protections.

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        1 month ago

        Foregoing litigation and waiting around for a legislature without any protections would have been much more dangerous. People were right to bring Onergefell, Roe, Brown, and a lot of other civil rights cases to the court and the court was right to rule on them the way they did. We just should have found a way to make the court less stupid about campaign finance so we could get a legislature that would finish what those cases started.