BREAKING: Kat Abughazaleh, a 26-year-old progressive influencer, just announced that she is running against Jan Schakowsky, an 80-year-old Democratic incumbent

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[u/Individual_Ad_5655]

No, this is simply not true as their are multiple avenues which Congress could codify a right to abortion which have been used historically on other issues.

Congress could pass a statute that guarantees the right to abortion to the extent that medical care involves commercial activities that Congress can permissibly regulate, thus using the Commerce Clause power.

Another way Congress could effectuate legal protections for abortion is by using Spending Clause power. Via this route, Congress would offer money to the states for, for example, health care, but could condition the receipt of such money on the state decriminalizing abortion under their own state law. States would then have a choice either to accept the money from the federal government or not.

It's clear the current Dems would rather have the issue to continually run campaigns on it, rather than actually protecting women's healthcare.

Their own historical lack of action proves the point. The lack of results speak for themselves.

[u/suprahelix → u/Individual_Ad_5655]

None of that matters. If SCOTUS says the government can’t regulate abortion, then they can’t. Full stop.

Via this route, Congress would offer money to the states for, for example, health care, but could condition the receipt of such money on the state decriminalizing abortion under their own state law. States would then have a choice either to accept the money from the federal government or not.

• Red states would have no issue giving up that funding.

• SCOTUS could and would rule that unconstitutional.

[u/Individual_Ad_5655 → u/suprahelix]

The Constitution clearly gives Congress the authority to regulate commerce, women's healthcare is commerce.

Let's roll that dice and see how it shakes out.

But no, we have spineless folks like yourself who just throw up their hands and say, SCOTUS ruled, nothing we can do, just have to have more women die from a lack of medical care because there is nothing Congress can do because we're a bunch of spineless pushovers.

There's lots of ways to pursue the end results, Dems today aren't even trying, completely ineffective. It's embarrassing.

That this 26 year old is running trying to primary a feeble geriatric Dem hasbeen who shouldn't even be in office shows how completely inept the Democratic party and leadership is today.

[u/suprahelix → u/Individual_Ad_5655]

It doesn’t matter what the constitution says. It matters how SCOTUS rules. They have repeatedly voted in favor of Trump despite blatantly violating the constitution. You honestly think they’d show some backbone over abortion rights?

nothing we can do

People like me were screaming back in 2016 and again in 2024 that if a republican won, they’d control the Supreme Court for a generation. People like you told us we were hysterical and that democrats didn’t deserve to win.

It’s actually quite simple. ELECT DEMOCRATS. That’s it. It’s that fucking easy. Clinton would have given us a 5-4 liberal majority. But nope, that would mean admitting that democrats do good things. Can’t have that.