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Al Brown's avatar

As somebody who used to think rather highly of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, I'm outraged by their stance. If there's no 14th Amendment right to abortion, as Dobbs said and as I and presumably they have always believed, then there's NO FEDERAL JURISDICTION over abortion, either to authorize it or to outlaw it. The Federal Government only has the powers that the Constitution delegates to it. The "appropriate legislation" clause of the 14th Amendment either applies to abortion or it doesn't apply. If the Supreme Court has decided that it doesn't apply, than it doesn't apply for anybody. If SBAPLA is making supporting a federal abortion ban a condition for their support, then they're as lawless as anyone else in this dispute, and they certainly know better.

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Catie's avatar

Susan B. Anthony would be appalled at an organization using her name that fights to strip women of their equality and autonomy.

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Al Brown's avatar

Her record on the subject of abortion is ambiguous. I doubt the organization's claim that she was anti, and their critics' claim that she wasn't. I'm not aware of any convincing evidence that she ever took a position. Her passions seem to have been very focused, and focused elsewhere.

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