The fact that Mexico is making progress on this is good to see, though also pretty embarrassing as a resident of the USA that our society is moving backwards at the same time.
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Congress can’t do anything because of the filibuster, two party system, and republicans though. The whole thing honestly needs an overhaul.
The Senate not being population-based is part of the problem too. As are gerrymandering and not having universal adult suffrage or federal holidays for voting days. But a Constitutional Convention would be state-based, too, so we’d end up with something even worse than we have now.
Agreed. It’s just a disaster all around honestly. It can change, but it’s not easy.
Don’t forget to include gerrymandering
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A filibuster raises the vote threshold, so it’s not something you can just wait out. And thank to how the filibusterer works nowadays, congressmen don’t actually need to get up there and talk, they can merely threaten to filibuster to raise the vote threshold.
https://www.npr.org/2022/01/17/1072714887/filibuster-explained
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That’s how it used to work, not anymore:
https://www.npr.org/2022/01/17/1072714887/filibuster-explained
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Don’t forget about the colonies
In addition to being good policy, this is going to be a lifeline for women in border states. (and will I suspect be much harder to police or prosecute - it’s very, very difficult to hold somebody legally liable in one country for an act committed in another)
how is this good specifically for women in the border? this applies equally in the whole country
Maybe if the US elect more republicans, Mexicans will stop coming in.
Not because of the walls, but because how enshittified the US will become under republican rule.
Sounds about right. Republicans will gladly step in their own pile of garbage just to be able to point and laugh at the other guy they perceive as their enemy.
Maybe that’s been the plan of migrant haters all along
If the US ever finish their wall, by the time they are done with it, Americans will be the one trying to get over it…
Arizona and Texas punching air right now. I just wish women didn’t need to have to travel such distances to have them done
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Judges in states that still criminalize abortion will have to take account of the top court’s ruling.
The court’s sweeping decision Wednesday comes amid a trend in Latin America of loosening restrictions on abortion, even as access has been limited in parts of the United States.
Mexico City was the first Mexican jurisdiction to decriminalize abortion 15 years ago.
The Information Group for Chosen Reproduction, known by its Spanish initials as GIRE, said the court decided that the portion of the federal penal code that criminalized abortion no longer has any effect.
“No woman or pregnant person, nor any health worker will be able to be punished for abortion,” the non-governmental organization said in a statement.
The court ordered that the crime of abortion be removed from the federal penal code.
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Back in 2021 the supreme court had already declared abortion as not a crime, but the sentenced, while settled a precedent, did not applied in the whole country. This new sentence applies in the whole country and also forces mexican healthcare public institutions to provide abortion to any person that requests it.
