(09-28-2020, 04:46 AM)KodiakJag Wrote: This country just needs to split into 3 separate countries (far right, far left, & middle) that set their own laws.  Everyone could be happy then.

Why only three?  Our system of governance already allows for 50!  

This is actually the GREATEST travesty of Roe.  As abhorrent as mass Genocide is, it is even more egregious to have it enabled by judicial fiat in the absence of voter input.  Even worse, to have that fiat come from the federal supreme court enacting it nation wide.  

the 10th amendment might be the most important amendment, and sadly the more that we stray from it, the greater the chance that we eventually lead to national fracture.  

If we do ever overturn roe, i think that this is the only escape hatch that has any chance of both success and preserving the nation as we know it (vs. secession, proportional representation in the senate, trifercating california, statehood for DC, Statehood for puerto Rico, elimination of the electoral college etc.)  Voters need to have a say in the values expressed by the state.  They also need the means of escape if the state the occupy no longer reflects their personal values.  When you can't vote at the ballot box, or vote with your feet, the only other options are unthinkable.

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