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The federal courts dont have the authority to make us kill babies, according to Oklahoma Republican Party Chairman Randy Brogdon. Are the Supreme Court justices going to come down to Oklahoma and make us stop?
Brogdon, a former state senator who once called for Oklahoma to form its own militia separate from that National Guard and who previously cast doubt upon the Pledge of Allegiance because he objects to the line one nation, indivisible offered his interpretation of the Supreme Courts lawful authority on Friday. One day earlier, he signed a fundraising email making a similar pitch. As Chairman of the Oklahoma Republican Party, I call on the Governor and legislators to completely end the practice of abortion in Oklahoma, Brogdon wrote in that email, adding that the state should [s]hut Planned Parenthood down immediately for their illegal actions, and prosecute the abortion doctors who violate their oath to do no harm.'
The party chairmans call to simply ignore court decisions protecting reproductive choice seeks to escalate many of his fellow Republicans attacks on legal abortion. Other states, however, have already gone so far in restricting abortion that its not clear that Brogdons proposal is as much of an escalation as it immediately appears to be.
Mississippi, for example, passed a law that, if upheld by the Supreme Court, will close the states last abortion clinic. A similar Texas law seeks to shut down many of the clinics in that state by imposing expensive obligations on clinics and difficult-to-obtain credentialing requirements on doctors who perform abortions. North Dakota enacted a law that could effectively ban abortion six weeks into pregnancy (a federal appeals court recently struck that law down, albeit reluctantly).
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http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/07/25/3684489/republican-party-chairman-tells-state-ignore-roe-v-wade/
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)Last edited Sat Jul 25, 2015, 05:39 PM - Edit history (1)
We get to ignore all decisions we don't agree with.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Does it explode? If so, one hell of a blast cannot be far away.