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And, relatedly, how hard it must be for people pushing policies based on layer on layer of lies to attract quality representation.

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People without answers are numerous. And beside that, there's some truth there.

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So I've told this before, I was in my twenties (100 or so years ago) and I was wearing a leather jacket with a pin with a slash through a coat hanger. A man asked me what the pin meant. I told him that before abortion was legal women used coat hangers or knitting needles to perform abortions. He literally pulled back, something he didn't know. And now, I have to find my pin, yet again.

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I trust Roberts about as much as I trust Susan Collins.

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Yeah, that was a tragedy. I hope her husband sued their ass off.

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Under Roberts, SCOTUS HAS lost all credibility.

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It would still be 5-4. Kennedy wouldn't have retired to make room for Boof if Hillary was Prez.

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If Democrats can keep the House, win the Senate and presidency which are possible we need to push as a #1 priority federal expansion of federal courts AND the Supreme Court. My preference is 9 new justices for a total of 18.

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From Wikipedia:

On 20 September 2013, Praveen Halappanavar's solicitor served legal proceedings against Galway University Hospital and separately against Doctor Katherine Astbury. The proceedings claim that Halappanavar's constitutional right to life had been breached and allege 30 issues of medical negligence.[69][70]By May 2014, Praveen Halappanavar had emigrated to the United States.[71] On 10 March 2016, Praveen Halappanavar settled the case with the HSE, after the HSE agreed to a confidential, six-figure cash settlement.

6 figures? Just her lost earning potential almost certainly deserved 7. She was, after all, a dentist - with a healthy practice and clients who apparently thought she both did a good job and was likable (everyone who knew her and was interviewed in the media kept saying how likable she was). If there were 10 or 20 people who suffered from missing out on needed medical care when their dentist died suddenly (or, if they were seeing her husband, also a dentist, because he was attending to her peri-mortem needs and also maybe a bit incapacitated by grieving), I would have supported them getting adequate recompense through small claims court.

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I think that's point. He's not trying to hide the fact that admitting privileges won't do anything for fear or regret, but he believes using them to close abortion clinics will, so he's good with it.

I like how he includes women who've considered abortions in the fearful regretful group, so it will have some members.

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So is lying under oath that you never no way no how ever did anything while drunk that you don't remember, and 80 people say, "dude, do you even know where you car is right now?"

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I'm glad they settled. Of course no fault was admitted, but to me this makes it obvious the hospital was scared shitless to go to trial. I don't know about lawsuits there, that may have been a record-setting settlement.

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IL is seeing an increase in abortion tourism.

for real. and it's helping our budget.

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Wouldn’t it be great if they cared this much about saving women by reducing maternal mortality rates, which are among the worst in the world?

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Most of his brief relied on the "studies" of David Reardon, who has a PhD in biomedical ethics from an unaccredited correspondence school.

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Yup. Huge catholic hospital systems with CEOs riding around the country in their private jets, attending professional sporting events in their luxury boxes, and bankrupting poor people who have the misfortune of assuming the catholic charity hospital actually gives a shit about those in need.

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