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It is chilling that this reads like a dystopian novel prompt. And on the other side of US men are women, women are men, and nobody is anything and everything a
by me_me_me 3y ago
It is chilling that this reads like a dystopian novel prompt.
And on the other side of US men are women, women are men, and nobody is anything and everything at the same time.
What a time to be alive.
- sandworm101 3y agoDystopian but also something unique to the US. Each state is effectively a different country with sometimes radically different laws. But people are free to move about and select which set of laws they want to live under, at least so long as they are not pregnant. New parents may move to state A so their daughter can have reproducer freedom. Or a billionaire may move to state B so he can more easily sell stocks without being taxed. No other country organizes itself around such a pick-your-laws scheme.
- G3rn0ti 3y agoSwitzerland did this even before the US. The US model is basically a copy of how Switzerland has been working (probably even more radically so with a much weaker federal government). But the emotional policies surrounding abortion in the US do not stem from their federal organization but rather roots in rather strong religious sentiments still more prevalent in the US than probably many other western countries. In Switzerland abortion has been formally legal since about 2001.