Honest question

So if the US is the land of liberty, individual freedom, or how it pronounces itself to be, why the sudden shift allowing the state to control people's life more than any other Western country?

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helenS · 36-40, F

It's about an unsolvable contradiction of rights: the right of the unborn to be born, and the rights of pregnant women to be in control of their body.

bijouxbroussard · F

@helenS Unless the country plans to start incarcerating all pregnant women and treating them as human incubators, the woman’s rights must ultimately prevail. This has set women’s rights back at least 50 years.

helenS · 36-40, F

@bijouxbroussard We have similar conditions in several European countries where right-wing parties have taken over. Poland is a horrible example. There is an alliance between the ruling nationalist party and the Polish Catholic church. 😕

bijouxbroussard · F

@helenS Our country was always rather proud of being able to separate church and state when it came to laws, since everyone here isn’t Christian or even theist—but we’re all expected to follow the laws. I’m not sure how this can be reversed, because the GOP is also trying to suppress the vote, which would be our legal way to do so.