In Utah, our legislature is so committed to rejecting the will of large government and their attempts to control what happens. And yet, the Utah legislature itself controls every single thing that happens in this state, and so long as everyone agrees with their ultra-conservative point of view, then everything is great in their view of things. So in the end, we end up being slaves to THEIR beliefs anyway, and the victim of their own form of big government interfering in everything in our lives here all the time.

That was indeed the joke.

Keep your voice down. You're giving the conservatives an erection.

The satanic temple has. Those folks are out there doing the lord's work, ironically

The appeals in the two major abortion cases Griswold v. Connecticut and Roe v. Wade were thought by some to have been taken up prematurely. There were a number of cases that came before those that were honing in on the issue from a gender discrimination standpoint. RBG is one who thought the cases were premature. For example, she had successfully argued that a disability benefit law granting survivorship benefits only to widows was illegally discriminatory against men. She had planned to do the same thing in a challenge to an abortion statute, and thought the Court would strike it down on grounds that it forced only women to carry a child to term after which only the woman had a legal duty to raise and care for the child. Before the Court could consider the argument, abortion statutes were struck down on based on penumbral reasoning, privacy grounds.

I love this description. I know some tumors in their thirties+ that never became human. Most of them are conservatives.

Oh I totally get that. I even wrote an editorial about the "women hating" so called "justices" of the Supreme court, and it didn't go over very well here in women-hating Utah. I agree with you on that completely.

If this is actually successful, expect republicans to begin going after more fda approvals in the courts for things like hiv medications or vaccines. Anything that appeals to their religious zealot base, doesn't matter how many people they harm.

Edit: Didn't think of this originally, and not strictly related to abortion access debate, but the ruling as it stands could allow for pharmaceutical companies to sue each other and try to overturn the approvals of competitors' drugs. It's just such an unfathomably bad ruling on soooooo many levels.

Yeah, people don't really understand the precedent that would be set here.

Chevron deference is extremely important, and the GOP is openly working to "dismantle the administrative state," to use their own words.

They care a lot about appearances, what they don't care about is actual popular opinion or democracy.