So, how about sanctuary cities for women who need abortions?

[Downtown Hound]

Since the Christofascists have made it illegal for women to leave the state to get abortions, how about we offer them sanctuary in blue cities in the same way we're currently doing for illegals?

[Chin music]

1. How about we quit changing shit around, to meet the demands of a bunch

of fundies backed by russian collaborators? Things were just fine Oct 2016.

[Downtown Hound]

2. Um, good idea.

But it's not us changing things around, it's them. So we're we're going to have to adapt to it no matter how much we hate it.

[Chin music]

7. Adapt?

To a minority of people?

[Downtown Hound]

8. Yes.

Given that they hold the power they do.

[Chin music]

16. How about we fight back by rioting in the streets?

You know, take our country back.

[Downtown Hound]

19. Sure, you go first.

I've been in some protests that got pretty hairy during the Bush years. Tear gas, pepper spray, the works. Spent 12 hours in jail on the night we started bombing Iraq. But even in those crazy times, there was still a sense of certain things that were just not acceptable. That's all gone now. If we start rioting, it's only a matter of time before bodies start piling up in the streets.

[Chin music]

21. I'll gladly go first.

I'm so tired of this. If you lack the stomach for it, you're right, stay in back and make coffee etc.

[Downtown Hound]

22. Sure. Have at it.

I'm not stopping you. But let's just say that I've never been impressed with people who talk a huge game and then fail to back any of it up. Feel free to prove me wrong.

[Chin music]

23. Me either. I'm a person of action.

Can't remember any bush 'riots' where bodies were stacking up though. Nothing wrong w making coffee in the rear.

[Downtown Hound]

24. I never said there were Bush riots where bodies were stacking up

I said that that DIDN'T happen during the Bush years, although there were plenty of other kinds of abuses, but that the game has changed now. Your reading comprehension doesn't seem to be very good.

And for the third time, you go be a person of action dude! Go get 'em!

[MineralMan]

3. Any law like that will be struck down.

US citizens are free to travel between states. Period. It's a constitutional thing. Can't happen and make through federal court.

[Downtown Hound]

4. There was a time I would have agreed with you

But with Trump stacking the courts, I'm no longer so sure.

[MineralMan]

5. See, it would affect all kinds of activities.

Business. It's a fundamental right that has to be superior to any state law. States cannot alter constitutional principles. No way that would stand.

[Downtown Hound]

6. I hope you're right.

[Ohiogal]

11. I'm not optimistic

they won’t create an “abortion exception”.

[marlakay]

9. I thought new laws said

They get arrested when they come back not pregnant.

Beyond abortion I am worried for women that have miscarriages some early at home, how can they prove they didn’t do anything to cause it?

Watching Handmaids Tale I thought it will never get that bad, that was a year ago. I thought young women would fight...I guess not too sleepy on phones.

I now think it could happen if Trump wins again and with not stopping the election hacking and cheating he could.

[BigmanPigman]

10. You have that right!

[Downtown Hound]

12. Hence the concept of a sanctuary city

They don't go back. They get sanctuary. The local populace passes state laws that says no local law enforcement officer will touch them.

[Hortensis]

14. Would have to be that way. If it's murder in-state

it'd certainly be murder period. Serious business. Women would be hiding their pregnancies. And states might well request arrest and extradition. After all, if SCOTUS said it was now allowed nationally...

[bdamomma]

13. I'm hoping

that the Supreme Court won't go near it. Women will not go back into the back alleys and die in the process. Blue and red states??

Putin is getting his wish of breaking the states just like the Soviet Union. Pay back.

[Tess49]

15. Wait. What? Which state is doing this? Alabama? n/t

[FailureToCommunicate]

17. Boston Globe article on newly forming "Pink Railroads"...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/05/16/via-social-media-abortion-activists-open-their-doors-women-need-assistance/Med2mNRJm946vVxIlvE53H/story.html

[Downtown Hound]

20. That's what I'm talking about!

[roamer65]

18. Michigan has several clinics in the Metro Detroit area.

There are also clinics in Ontario.

Detroit - Windsor once was an Underground Railroad. It can be one again.

Women who desire reproductive freedom are welcome here.