Griswold the Next Constitutional Right to Fall?

[ClydeR]

In the Griswold case in 1965, the US Supreme Court said that states could not outlaw birth control. Overturning Griswold has for years been a goal of some politicians, including Clarence Thomas. Now Trump appears to be joining the group that wants to overturn Griswold, for the same reason as most Christians, which is to reduce the incidence of groping for trout in either a peculiar or familiar river, if done for carnal purposes instead of procreation. Trump is the kind of person who promotes abstinence, chastity and morality, even if he does not personally practice those virtues.

Earlier on Tuesday, he was asked in an interview with KDKA News in Pittsburgh if he supported any restrictions on the right of people to use contraception.

“We’re looking at that,” he responded, “and I’m going to have a policy on that very shortly, and I think it’s something that you’ll find interesting.”

Asked if that included the so-called morning-after pill, Trump said, “Things really do have a lot to do with the states, and some states are going to have different policy than others."

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Later, after his comments got a lot of attention Trump backtracked slightly..

“I Have never, and will never advocate imposing restrictions on birth control," the Republican presidential candidate said on his social media site, Truth Social.

The only way to reconcile those two comments is that Trump agrees with Clarence Thomas that Griswold should be overturned, leaving the legality of birth control to the states, with the federal government imposing no restrictions at the federal level, which is also Trump's stated position on abortion.

[Tgo01]

If you're a Democrat you really have to be asking yourself why didn't Obama and his supermajority congress at the time just pass a federal law that protected abortion and birth control? They could have rammed it through congress in less than a month.

Instead they just left it up to old rulings, knowing full well how easy it is to overturn old rulings.

Almost as if Democrats don't really give a shit about these issues and just use them to get elected because they clearly fail at just about everything else when it comes to running a country.

[Furryrat]

Plagiarizing a frequently ill-used quote from Shakespeare neither makes the perception of this content appear archaic, nor does it further any argument you intend to make.

[~Rocktar~]

If you're a Democrat you really have to be asking yourself why didn't Obama and his supermajority congress at the time just pass a federal law that protected abortion and birth control? They could have rammed it through congress in less than a month.

Instead they just left it up to old rulings, knowing full well how easy it is to overturn old rulings.

Almost as if Democrats don't really give a shit about these issues and just use them to get elected because they clearly fail at just about everything else when it comes to running a country.

The same could be said with immigration, firearms and so on. The simple answer is, they know it would be a death sentence since it would mean that pretty much everyone got voted out.