Roe vs. Wade Overturned - Sports Related

You talk about being religious, I'm curious to hear your thoughts on the matter. As the sports board is generally more mature than the politics board, I think we can all have a pretty good discussion about how this came about, what it means, and what the implications are going forward vis-a-vis other decisions that are about to reviewed.

What say you?

Fair, yeah I can respect not wanting to get into a political/religious discussion about it.  Was just curious is all.  I am a registered R, but don't vote along with them anymore.  I am personally against abortion...for myself/my family. But to me a woman's right to choose is so fundamental, that I find it amazing that abortion is now immediately illegal in a bunch of states, even in cases of rape and incest, as you mentioned.  

If people don't want abortions because of religious reasons (or any other reasons), they don't need to get them.  If people are raped, or simply don't want to have a baby, they should be able to get one.  Seems pretty simple to me. 

There are SIGNIFICANT ramifications here, but I'll leave that for the politics board so we can keep arguing over other stuff. 

I am disgusted by the news of Roe being overturned, and frightened for the future of America. A bunch of religious fanatics shouldn’t decide our laws and religion and government should be kept strictly separate. It’s a dark day for America, I believe abortion rights are human rights and it’s scary how the right wing is turning the clock backwards. And there’s plenty of blame to go around for this, the Dems should’ve made Roe codified law when Obama was POTUS and had a supermajority in Congress, and RBG should’ve retired from the Court when Obama was POTUS and we would have one more left leaning justice on the Court. But the majority of blame goes to the GOP, which has become an extremist party as of late. I’m curious to see how this affects things going forward and what the midterms will look like, I hope this gives the left wing a boost but given how Biden isn’t doing a great job overall and the fact that the party in the White House usually loses some seats in the midterms things don’t look great.

To answer the OP’s question, I will definitely continue to shop at Dick’s, I applaud the CEO for standing up for women’s rights in this time, as I said above I think abortion is a basic human right, and I applaud anyone willing to stand up for it.

I’m curious as to what others have to say as well on here, I usually don’t discuss politics on the sports board, as I’m a regular on the politics board so I usually keep my politics discussions there, but I respect everyone here on the sports board and we have a peaceful community that gets along well so I think we can discuss this without it becoming a shitshow like so many threads on the politics board become.

I really don’t know about the morality of abortion; whether it’s right or wrong morally? However, I don’t think it’s the government place to dictate whether a woman can have an abortion or not. I think that decision should be left up to the pregnant woman. I can’t imagine what it must feel like to be a scared pregnant woman not wanting a child and being told you must have that baby. Even worse if you attempt an abortion you could be legally punished. That doesn’t sit right with me. It feels like we are depriving pregnant women of their liberty.

Yeah, I think the whole states rights thing is an excuse. Obviously states should have individual rights, however I don’t see that as the intent behind all this. They are using it as an excuse to get what they want. If they could ban it throughout the country they would.

The hypocrisy and contradiction will be as stark as their "no new justices in an election year."