State Pot Laws Usurping the Fed Means Abortion Is Next...

If states get away with disregarding federal law and continue to legalize pot at the state level, state legislatures can then arrest abortion providers if they enact state laws prohibiting abortion. The Fed be damned.
Pothead lefties better watch out for what they wish for.

Guy, they rarely arrested abortion providers when abortion was "illegal".

The problem you anti-choice nutters make is you think that before 1973, America was a happy land free of evil abortions.

Nope. Before 1973, women had abortions, doctors wrote down something else on their charts, and the only time someone got arrested is if the provider messed up and sent the woman to the hospital.

They never arrested women for having them, because no one would have tolerated that.
I'm not anti-abortion. I'm only pointing out the possible ramifications of states usurping the Fed.
Moron.

No, you're not. As there is a right to abortion. There is no right to not have pot sold in a State.

Completely different basis.
Abortion is not a right as it involves two or more individuals. You just call it that as an excuse.

Says you, citing whatever pseudo-legal gibberish you want to imagine. But we're talking about the *actual* law. And access to abortion is a right under our laws.

Pot isn't.

Again, you don't know what the hell you're talking about. You're conflating rights and powers. They aren't the same thing.
 
If states get away with disregarding federal law and continue to legalize pot at the state level, state legislatures can then arrest abortion providers if they enact state laws prohibiting abortion. The Fed be damned.
Pothead lefties better watch out for what they wish for.

Selling pot doesn't violate any right. Restricting abortion does.

You don't know what you're talking about.
More rights bullshit. Rights don't involve others beyond the individual.

Rights are protection from government interference. Women have the right to have an abortion without the government interfering with them.

Pot laws are conflicts between state and federal powers.

Rights and powers are *not* the same thing. The conflicts you're speaking of have entirely different bases.
And the constitution made blacks 2/3 of a person as a right.
Enough with the lame rights bullshit argument attempt.
 
If states get away with disregarding federal law and continue to legalize pot at the state level, state legislatures can then arrest abortion providers if they enact state laws prohibiting abortion. The Fed be damned.
Pothead lefties better watch out for what they wish for.

Selling pot doesn't violate any right. Restricting abortion does.

You don't know what you're talking about.
More rights bullshit. Rights don't involve others beyond the individual.

Rights are protection from government interference. Women have the right to have an abortion without the government interfering with them.

Pot laws are conflicts between state and federal powers.

Rights and powers are *not* the same thing. The conflicts you're speaking of have entirely different bases.
And the constitution made blacks 2/3 of a person as a right.
Enough with the lame rights bullshit argument attempt.

That was 3/5ths, not 2/3rd.

And you simply imagining that rights you don't like don't exist isn't a legal argument. The gibberish you tell yourself about rights is pseudo-legal nonsense that has no practical impact on the world the rest of us live in.

Under the law, abortion is a right. Pot isn't.

State Pot laws are a conflict of State and Federal powers. They have nothing to do with individual rights. Making your direct equivalence between State Powers and Individual Rights a staggering misunderstanding of how our laws and constitution work.

As rights and powers aren't the same thing.
 
I seriously pray we never go back to the days where women have to resort to using coat hangers again. Those weren't pleasant times.
True. However, they were not as common as the left would like everyone to think they were.

I think this is a bad example as the SCOTUS has ruled on this.

A more apt incident of the left supporting the feds to flay the States would be marriage licenses.

Either way, this is clearly a conflict of competing rights. States vs Feds. In that case, the Feds need to apply a ruling that is the least harmful. Since illegals have no rights, then the States are in the wrong here.
 
I seriously pray we never go back to the days where women have to resort to using coat hangers again. Those weren't pleasant times.
True. However, they were not as common as the left would like everyone to think they were.

I think this is a bad example as the SCOTUS has ruled on this.

A more apt incident of the left supporting the feds to flay the States would be marriage licenses.

Nope. Still a shit example.....as same sex marriage is a legally recognized right.

There is no right to smoke pot. Or a right to live in a state that outlaws it. There are no rights involved. Its a *powers* question, with the State power to legalize pot coming in conflict with the Federal power to criminalize it.

Which has nothing to do with rights.

Either way, this is clearly a conflict of competing rights. States vs Feds.

Neither the States nor the Federal government have 'rights'. They have powers. Only people have rights.
 
I seriously pray we never go back to the days where women have to resort to using coat hangers again. Those weren't pleasant times.
True. However, they were not as common as the left would like everyone to think they were.

I think this is a bad example as the SCOTUS has ruled on this.

A more apt incident of the left supporting the feds to flay the States would be marriage licenses.

Nope. Still a shit example.....as same sex marriage is a legally recognized right.

There is no right to smoke pot. Or a right to live in a state that outlaws it. There are no rights involved. Its a *powers* question, with the State power to legalize pot coming in conflict with the Federal power to criminalize it.

Which has nothing to do with rights.

Either way, this is clearly a conflict of competing rights. States vs Feds.

Neither the States nor the Federal government have 'rights'. They have powers. Only people have rights.
It is an excellent example.

However, I agree with you in regard to both State and Fed governments not having rights.
 
I seriously pray we never go back to the days where women have to resort to using coat hangers again. Those weren't pleasant times.
True. However, they were not as common as the left would like everyone to think they were.

I think this is a bad example as the SCOTUS has ruled on this.

A more apt incident of the left supporting the feds to flay the States would be marriage licenses.

Nope. Still a shit example.....as same sex marriage is a legally recognized right.

There is no right to smoke pot. Or a right to live in a state that outlaws it. There are no rights involved. Its a *powers* question, with the State power to legalize pot coming in conflict with the Federal power to criminalize it.

Which has nothing to do with rights.

Either way, this is clearly a conflict of competing rights. States vs Feds.

Neither the States nor the Federal government have 'rights'. They have powers. Only people have rights.
It is an excellent example.

Nope. Its a garbage example. As marriage is about rights. This conflict is about powers.

Powers, for the Feds anyway, are exhaustive. Rights for people aren't. Rights don't need to be enumerated to exist. The people reserve rights that aren't in the bill of rights. The Federal government on the other hand has no more powers than they are granted by the federal government.

Its a very, very different situation. The 9th amendment is a great guide on this issue related to rights, the 10th on powers retained by the State. By precedent, the Feds have the upper hand on this one. But I always found the interstate commerce clause adaptions of the Federal government to be some weak fucking tea, constitutionally.

If intrastate commerce is effectively the same thing as interstate commerce, why did the Framers bother with the distinction? Simple: because they aren't the same thing. I think the Supreme Court got this one very wrong.
 
If states get away with disregarding federal law and continue to legalize pot at the state level, state legislatures can then arrest abortion providers if they enact state laws prohibiting abortion. The Fed be damned.
Pothead lefties better watch out for what they wish for.

States have been passing unconstitutional anti-abortion laws for decades now.

Nothing new here.
 
I seriously pray we never go back to the days where women have to resort to using coat hangers again. Those weren't pleasant times.
True. However, they were not as common as the left would like everyone to think they were.

I think this is a bad example as the SCOTUS has ruled on this.

A more apt incident of the left supporting the feds to flay the States would be marriage licenses.

Nope. Still a shit example.....as same sex marriage is a legally recognized right.

There is no right to smoke pot. Or a right to live in a state that outlaws it. There are no rights involved. Its a *powers* question, with the State power to legalize pot coming in conflict with the Federal power to criminalize it.

Which has nothing to do with rights.

Either way, this is clearly a conflict of competing rights. States vs Feds.

Neither the States nor the Federal government have 'rights'. They have powers. Only people have rights.
It is an excellent example.

Nope. Its a garbage example. As marriage is about rights. This conflict is about powers.

Powers, for the Feds anyway, are exhaustive. Rights for people aren't. Rights don't need to be enumerated to exist. The people reserve rights that aren't in the bill of rights. The Federal government on the other hand has no more powers than they are granted by the federal government.

Its a very, very different situation. The 9th amendment is a great guide on this issue related to rights, the 10th on powers retained by the State. By precedent, the Feds have the upper hand on this one. But I always found the interstate commerce clause adaptions of the Federal government to be some weak fucking tea, constitutionally.

If intrastate commerce is effectively the same thing as interstate commerce, why did the Framers bother with the distinction? Simple: because they aren't the same thing. I think the Supreme Court got this one very wrong.
You're clearly wrong.
 
I seriously pray we never go back to the days where women have to resort to using coat hangers again. Those weren't pleasant times.
True. However, they were not as common as the left would like everyone to think they were.

I think this is a bad example as the SCOTUS has ruled on this.

A more apt incident of the left supporting the feds to flay the States would be marriage licenses.

Nope. Still a shit example.....as same sex marriage is a legally recognized right.

There is no right to smoke pot. Or a right to live in a state that outlaws it. There are no rights involved. Its a *powers* question, with the State power to legalize pot coming in conflict with the Federal power to criminalize it.

Which has nothing to do with rights.

Either way, this is clearly a conflict of competing rights. States vs Feds.

Neither the States nor the Federal government have 'rights'. They have powers. Only people have rights.
It is an excellent example.

Nope. Its a garbage example. As marriage is about rights. This conflict is about powers.

Powers, for the Feds anyway, are exhaustive. Rights for people aren't. Rights don't need to be enumerated to exist. The people reserve rights that aren't in the bill of rights. The Federal government on the other hand has no more powers than they are granted by the federal government.

Its a very, very different situation. The 9th amendment is a great guide on this issue related to rights, the 10th on powers retained by the State. By precedent, the Feds have the upper hand on this one. But I always found the interstate commerce clause adaptions of the Federal government to be some weak fucking tea, constitutionally.

If intrastate commerce is effectively the same thing as interstate commerce, why did the Framers bother with the distinction? Simple: because they aren't the same thing. I think the Supreme Court got this one very wrong.
You're clearly wrong.

If I was, you could explain how. You can't.

My every point stands uncontested. Rights are not powers. Nor are they treated as equivalents by the law or the courts. Legally castrating the OP's every argument.
 
If states get away with disregarding federal law and continue to legalize pot at the state level, state legislatures can then arrest abortion providers if they enact state laws prohibiting abortion. The Fed be damned.
Pothead lefties better watch out for what they wish for.

:lol:

You guys just don't understand how this all works, do you?
 
If states get away with disregarding federal law and continue to legalize pot at the state level, state legislatures can then arrest abortion providers if they enact state laws prohibiting abortion. The Fed be damned.
Pothead lefties better watch out for what they wish for.

Selling pot doesn't violate any right. Restricting abortion does.

You don't know what you're talking about.
More rights bullshit. Rights don't involve others beyond the individual.

Rights are protection from government interference. Women have the right to have an abortion without the government interfering with them.

Pot laws are conflicts between state and federal powers.

Rights and powers are *not* the same thing. The conflicts you're speaking of have entirely different bases.
And the constitution made blacks 2/3 of a person as a right.
Enough with the lame rights bullshit argument attempt.

That was 3/5ths, not 2/3rd.

And you simply imagining that rights you don't like don't exist isn't a legal argument. The gibberish you tell yourself about rights is pseudo-legal nonsense that has no practical impact on the world the rest of us live in.

Under the law, abortion is a right. Pot isn't.

State Pot laws are a conflict of State and Federal powers. They have nothing to do with individual rights. Making your direct equivalence between State Powers and Individual Rights a staggering misunderstanding of how our laws and constitution work.

As rights and powers aren't the same thing.
Unless the woman performs the abortion on herself, aborting a man's baby is a privilege skewed as a right. You leftovers keep doing that 1960's 'rights' bs dance.
2/3 or 3/5 doesn't matter. Math accuracy is irrelevant for leftovers.
 
Selling pot doesn't violate any right. Restricting abortion does.

You don't know what you're talking about.
More rights bullshit. Rights don't involve others beyond the individual.

Rights are protection from government interference. Women have the right to have an abortion without the government interfering with them.

Pot laws are conflicts between state and federal powers.

Rights and powers are *not* the same thing. The conflicts you're speaking of have entirely different bases.
And the constitution made blacks 2/3 of a person as a right.
Enough with the lame rights bullshit argument attempt.

That was 3/5ths, not 2/3rd.

And you simply imagining that rights you don't like don't exist isn't a legal argument. The gibberish you tell yourself about rights is pseudo-legal nonsense that has no practical impact on the world the rest of us live in.

Under the law, abortion is a right. Pot isn't.

State Pot laws are a conflict of State and Federal powers. They have nothing to do with individual rights. Making your direct equivalence between State Powers and Individual Rights a staggering misunderstanding of how our laws and constitution work.

As rights and powers aren't the same thing.
Unless the woman performs the abortion on herself, aborting a man's baby is a privilege skewed as a right. You leftovers keep doing that 1960's 'rights' bs dance.
2/3 or 3/5 doesn't matter. Math accuracy is irrelevant for leftovers.

Says you. The nonsense about what 'rights' are that you tell yourself has no relevance to the law. ANd under our laws, women have a right to unrestricted access to abortion. That you don't believe they should, or you don't believe that's a right is irrelevant. They do and it is.

You're not making a legal argument. You're making a philosophical one. And there is no 'slippery slope' of 'unintended consequences' because you disagree with the law.
 
The ole 'Slippery Slope' argument.
When you can't actually think of any real reason to disagree.
Slippery Slopes actually exist.

Not in this instance as the basis of legal disputes are entirely different.

As the right to abortion is based in individual rights.

Pot laws are about state and federal powers. Powers and rights are handled completely differently under the law and the constitution.
 
The ole 'Slippery Slope' argument.
When you can't actually think of any real reason to disagree.
Slippery Slopes actually exist.

Not in this instance as the basis of legal disputes are entirely different.

As the right to abortion is based in individual rights.

Pot laws are about state and federal powers. Powers and rights are handled completely differently under the law and the constitution.

When the Federal SC decided to weigh in it because a State vs. Federal issue. There are a lot of States with Abortion bans still on the books, they are just not enforced.

What happens when the States decide on this issue to say "screw it" like they do with Pot?
 
The ole 'Slippery Slope' argument.
When you can't actually think of any real reason to disagree.
Slippery Slopes actually exist.

Not in this instance as the basis of legal disputes are entirely different.

As the right to abortion is based in individual rights.

Pot laws are about state and federal powers. Powers and rights are handled completely differently under the law and the constitution.

When the Federal SC decided to weigh in it because a State vs. Federal issue. There are a lot of States with Abortion bans still on the books, they are just not enforced.

What happens when the States decide on this issue to say "screw it" like they do with Pot?

There is no 'right to smoke pot'. There is a right to access to abortion or marry.

Your equivalence of the two issues breaks on these simple facts.
 

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