• @underisk@lemmy.ml
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    • The Patriot Act - is about increasing government surveillance
    • EARN IT - is about adding backdoors to encryption and increasing government monitoring of internet traffic.
    • Kids Online Safety Act - is about internet censorship and platform liability.
    • The Inflation Reduction Act - is about taxes and climate.
    • Unborn Victims of Violence Act - you can probably guess what this is about.
    • Working Families Flexibility Act - is about changing overtime and vacation benefits and giving employers flexibility in when they allow their employees to redeem them.
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      Unborn Victims of Violence Act

      Abortion? Lmfao they called it that? x⸑x

      If it wasn’t America I would guess it was to protect future generations of kids in war zones.

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        It has a specific exception for abortion but was largely a ploy to elevate fetuses legal status to a party capable of being wronged under federal law and so lay the groundwork for future challenges to abortion. The pretense was that violent crimes against pregnant women should get punished more harshly because there’s two victims.

        Turns out they didn’t need it, they could just pack the courts and get what they wanted without all the trouble.