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> A large portion of America views abortion as murder. That is not true, they are a very loud minority. Most polling puts people who really care about banning
by ehsankia 4y ago
> A large portion of America views abortion as murder.
That is not true, they are a very loud minority. Most polling puts people who really care about banning abortion (in the ways it is being done right now) at below 20%.
The reason it is not passing legislation is because the Senate (which is required) is not a democratic institution. A state like Wyoming has 65x more voting power than a state like California. Current the Senate sits at 50/50 yet one side represents 40M more citizens than the other.
- bushbaba 4y ago20% is a large portion of the USA. That's 1 out of every 5 Americans.
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- t-writescode 4y agoIf 80% of the USA wanted marijuana legalized, does that mean the 20% that say 'no' should keep it blocked?
- bushbaba 4y agoThere's been no ruling that Abortion is un-constitutional. The 80% has the full ability to elect representatives to pass a law on the matter at the state or federal level.
- t-writescode 4y agoSee, you're saying this, but with effective gerrymandering and friends, a collection of low-population states have successfully broken the democratic process by having a majority of power while being in the minority.
- inkblotuniverse 4y agoThen you should be in favor of abrogating decisions to the states and reducing federal power.
- ehsankia 4y agoBut as I described above, people in red states often have orders of magnitude more voting power.
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- hobo_in_library 4y ago