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Could Roe v. Wade be history?

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by budcrew08, Aug 30, 2008.

  1. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

    A decade or so ago, there was one guy in the Mass. legislature who introduced a bill that would have provided for the death penalty for any woman having an abortion.
    He brought it up every year.
     
  2. buckweaver

    buckweaver Active Member

    Well, that sounds reasonable. ::)
     
  3. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

    Yeah, especially since if through some miracle the bill was passed and signed into law, it would have been the only death penalty eligible crime in the state.
    I can't even remember the guy's name or when he left office. I think he was from North Attleboro, but that's all I can remember.
     
  4. old_tony

    old_tony Well-Known Member

    Even though they have throughout our country's history? States and the federal government have defined marriage forever. You just want to change the definition.
     
  5. steveu

    steveu Well-Known Member

    The "two for the price of one" bill -- ah, yes, I remember it well...
     
  6. Tom Petty

    Tom Petty Guest

    definitions change all the time, tony. it's called progress.
     
  7. JR

    JR Well-Known Member

    Tony doesn't believe in progress.
     
  8. old_tony

    old_tony Well-Known Member

    I believe in progress. I also know what is and isn't progress. Changing the definition of marriage is not progress.

    Would changing the definition of hard work to include slackers be progress?
     
  9. Tom Petty

    Tom Petty Guest

    wow, tony. straight people are hard workers and gay people are slackers?

    for the love of piss, please tell me you don't mean that.
     
  10. You miss the point, Petty.

    He's not saying that gay people are slackers. He's saying that two gay people in love can't make a commitment along the same lines as two straight people who are in love.

    Gay relationships are to marriage as slacking is to working hard.

    And he's full of shit.
     
  11. Tom Petty

    Tom Petty Guest

    that's what i was getting at, and i don't think that's what tony was saying, which is why i asked him to clarify.

    my man might be conservative, but he's far, far from stupid.
     
  12. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    Anybody McCain nominates would have to be confirmed by a Congress that is going to have an overwhelming Democratic majority.

    So if another Thomas or Scalia or Alito gets placed on the court, Dems are just as responsible as McCain.
     
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