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Hekate

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7. It's a lot worse than that -- we've gone back over a century. There were no bounty-hunter laws...

Reply to FakeNoose (Reply #4)

Wed Jun 25, 2025, 10:13 PM

Jun 25

…when I was a teenager in the 1960s. Now there are.

You’ve heard of “zombie laws” right? Those are laws never taken off the books, merely superseded by Roe — and now that Roe is gone, they have emerged from their stinking graves. One was 150 years old.

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Tens of thousands of women forced to travel out of state for abortion care after Roe v Wade was overturned in 2022 [View all] BumRushDaShow Jun 25 OP

I bet men would raise hell if they had to travel out of state Marthe48 Jun 25 #1

Freedom and liberty for some, based on luck, location and gender, and contempt for women overall. Timeflyer Jun 25 #2

MAGA men screamed that it was a major imposition for them to get a vaccine shot that violated their freedom. Lonestarblue Jun 25 #3

And child labor to replace the people they are throwing out of the country. travelingthrulife Jun 25 #5

It's the 1950's all over again FakeNoose Jun 25 #4

It's a lot worse than that -- we've gone back over a century. There were no bounty-hunter laws... Hekate Jun 25 #7

Yes all true, but the OP is about abortion laws being rescinded FakeNoose Jun 25 #8

In the '50s and early '60s I wasn't a teen but I was old enough to listen to my mom talk with her friends Hekate Jun 26 #9

Can someone say "undue burden"? sakabatou Jun 25 #6