this country is so fucking cool

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      It is a state of the US, and this is just the latest radical conservative measure to get onto legislative debate floors.

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        Ok, but the decisions made in Oklahoma don’t apply anywhere besides Oklahoma. Suggesting that the whole country is as braindead as the Midwest is, itself, also quite braindead.

        Germany is a part of the EU, but you don’t hear anyone blaming them for the fact that Croatia still doesn’t allow gay marriage.

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          Ok, but the decisions made in Oklahoma don’t apply anywhere besides Oklahoma.

          They care about in the context of everything else happening, like the abortion bans and the don’t say gay laws

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            Abortion bans

            Several US states are actually more lenient than most EU member states when it comes to how late you can terminate a pregnancy. Pennsylvania, for example, allows abortions up to the 23rd week. Ohio allows it up to 21 weeks. Germany, on the other hand, only allows them up to 12 weeks. The fact that Texas only allows them up to six weeks highlights just how significant the differences between states really are.

            The EU cannot pass regulations unless literally all members agree to them

            But they can still pass legislation that affects only their country, much in the same way US states can pass legislation that only affects one state.

            Oklahoma is not the entire US and it’s idiotic to insist that one of the least populous states represents the entire country.

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        10 months ago

        As has happened many times over the last few decades, the rightwingnuts will throw around a bunch of similar bills with slightly different wording in a bunch of atates to find out which version can survive the inevitable challenges.