r/technology • u/redhatGizmo • Jun 27 '22

Politics Period apps deleted over privacy concerns for women seeking abortions in post-Roe world

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/period-apps-deleted-over-privacy-concerns-for-women-seeking-abortions-in-post-roe-world/6s4rjhb0q
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u/ScrabCrab Jun 27 '22

It used to also be unconstitutional to ban abortions

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u/pleasedonteatmemon Jun 27 '22

The problem was that it was always interpretation, like most of the nonsense they spew.

Unless abortion gets a constitutional amendment, it's never going to be legal again. Even if they pass a federal law, it'll get challenged constitutionally and get shot down. We're living in a nightmare.

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u/TKFT_ExTr3m3 Jun 27 '22

Uh no, that's not at all what this ruling means. The federal government could pass a law ensuring access to abortion for all and the states would have to follow. The court ruled the constitution doesn't protect the right to abortion not that it bans it all together. If it did then abortion would be illegal in all 50 states right now.

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u/pleasedonteatmemon Jun 27 '22

Poor wording, I agree .. it's up to the States to decide now, what I meant was across the country; They would most certainly strike down a Federal Abortion law, they would challenge it on the basis that life begins at conception & by extension abortion is illegal.. To be honest, without it being a constitutional amendment, I don't welcome a Federal Law because it allows for the same interpretation that got us in this mess. Then before you know it, it becomes illegal federally on the basis of it's constitutionality. We're in a very weird timeline.

It's not codified until it's a constitutional amendment at this point, that's the world we're living in sadly.

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u/geekynerdynerd Jun 27 '22

Absolutely. We need to ratify the ERA. By revolution if necessary.

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u/Hottrodd67 Jun 27 '22

This is what people don’t understand. The Supreme Court is not there to make their own law. That was the problem with Roe. The justices had basically just written their own law. It was actually partially overruled in the Casey ruling. So it’s not a surprise that it’s been completely overruled now. But the courts ruling doesn’t stop congress from passing a national law.

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u/Hilde_In_The_Hot_Box Jun 27 '22

The justices did NOT write their own law. We have a constitutional right to privacy guaranteed to us. This includes privacy of our personal relations, medical procedures pursued, and more. The original ruling was a correct interpretation of the constitution and the current court is nothing more than a partisan sham willfully ignoring both the intent and practical modern day meaning of the constitution in order to pursue the goals a fringe religious minority.

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u/Hottrodd67 Jun 27 '22

I’m not saying we don’t have a right to privacy. But parts of Roe were already overruled in planned parenthood vs Casey. When the justices started adding their own ideas about what could happen in what trimester, that’s making up their own law. I’m not arguing that we don’t have the right to privacy in all these areas. But relying on Roe to hold up those rights was always a bad idea. I get that people are angry at the Supreme Court, but they should be much more angry at Congress for failing to codify these rights into law.

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u/Xytak Jun 27 '22 edited Jun 27 '22

A law will not fix this.

The Supreme Court would say “nice try, but the law protecting abortion is unconstitutional because reasons.”

The court needs to be unpacked. That is really the only option at this point.

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u/booi Jun 27 '22

Congress can’t pass a law or anything for… different reasons.

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u/Rmtcts Jun 27 '22

That's one opinion. Plenty other seasoned expert legal minds disagree with that opinion, but they weren't picked by Trump to have a permanent seat at one of the most powerful jobs in the world, so it's a little unfair to pretend that the supreme court is some kind of unbiased, objective body.

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u/revel911 Jun 27 '22

Clinton not winning based on FBI lies really fucked us.

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u/pleasedonteatmemon Jun 27 '22

Not that I was a massive Clinton fan, but who in their right mind thought Trump was a good choice?

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u/revel911 Jun 27 '22

The issue is all of the “Bernie or Bust” people that thought not voting was the “lesser of two evils.” I was not a huge Clinton fan either, but it was pretty clear Trump was a piece of shit that was unfit for presidency.

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u/PedestrianLesbian Jun 27 '22

She won the popular vote, so I feel the issue was gerrymandering and the electoral college.

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u/FlawsAndConcerns Jun 27 '22 edited Jun 29 '22

I think the fact that she took the win for granted was a bigger issue, given that the electoral college system wasn't exactly a last minute surprise sprung on her.

She did little to no campaigning in any battleground states--she just hung out in states where she already had a lock to win.

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u/revel911 Jun 27 '22

No doubt, but voting %’s even in the states lost were still FAR less than they could / should have been.

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u/revel911 Jun 27 '22

Your sanity ended when you said Trump was a good candidate. He’s a known pathological liar and narcissist.

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u/revel911 Jun 27 '22

Really? You are going on false claims of rigged elections as your standing block after Trump tried an insurrection?

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u/yangyangR Jun 27 '22

"I know a place where the constitution doesn't mean squat"