Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit
Obscurity4340 | on: Trump wins presidency for second time
Isn't it true that Roe should have been codified long ago? I wonder why that never happen like it did in Canada after Morgentaler
sokoloff | parent | next
Because it was a critical fundraising topic for decades (on both sides, to be fair).

I don't exactly know how much of national politics is optimizing for fundraising rather than for making citizens' lives better, but it's clearly far too great.

RajT88 | root | parent | next
More and more clearly.
johndhi | root | parent
Woah this is a very interesting point
shlant | root | parent
conspiracies are not "very interesting point[s]"

The reality is that:

1. Abortion has always been one of the most divisive topics in the US

2. Roe vs. Wade to begin with was a very shaky legal hodgepodge based around right to privacy

3. Codifying something like that takes immense political might and public approval neither of which existed in a significant capacity

lokar | root | parent
It’s not that divisive outside the political class.

60+% majorities have supported abortion as a right until near the end of the second trimester, and for the health of the mother after that (for 30+ years).

0xBDB | root | parent
That is not the case. Support drops well below a majority after the first trimester, and always has.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/321143/americans-stand-abortion....

EasyMark | parent | next
That's a popular misconception that has been shattered for well over a decade. That is nearly impossible with the filibuster, there was one slim window of 1 or 2 months in Obama's terms that they could have squeezed it in. Otherwise it's a fight to the death every time with the republicans in the Senate (filibuster)
tpmoney | root | parent
The problem is the filibuster is a choice of the senate. They can at any time decide to do away with it, it’s not law and not a law of nature. But they don’t because it serves their interests to be able to throw their hands up in the air and not even have to try to pass legislation.
EasyMark | root | parent
That's no something that is going to happen, -both- parties dearly love the filibuster, if it can just be done away with, against, precedence then it will become useless whenever a party gets the slimmest of majorities. I'm not sure how much longer it matters though, if this turns into a dictatorship
computerthings | parent | next
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/us/politics/15abortion.ht...

> "the first thing I’d do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act"

https://www.reuters.com/article/markets/us/obama-says-aborti...

> "I would like to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies that result in women feeling compelled to get an abortion, or at least considering getting an abortion, particularly if we can reduce the number of teen pregnancies," Obama said.

| parent
{"deleted":true,"id":42062207,"parent":42061535,"time":1730900832,"type":"comment"}