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In reply to the discussion: I can't shake the feeling the Court is Congress reaping what it has sown [View all]unblock
(51,974 posts)Yes. It would have been better for congress to have done more to protect our rights, not that republicans would have allowed that. We might have gotten more legislative successes.
On the other hand, this Supreme Court would have still knocked most of that down. It is widely expected to deem a fetus a "person" next year, thus making state murder laws apply to abortions. Congress couldn't really do much about that.
Congress could allow or offer abortion on federal/tribal land, something already under discussion anyway. But abortion would still be murder in gestational slavery states.
So I think mostly, had congress acted to preserve rights, it would have merely changed the specific court cases. But regardless, this Supreme Court would have found another way to take us back to medieval times.