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This week, The U.S. Supreme Court made two rulings:

The first is to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion in the United States, clarifying that the right to abortion is not protected by the U.S. Constitution, leaving states to decide for themselves. The right to decide whether abortion is legal;

The second is to make it clear that carrying guns in public places is a basic right for Americans, and to prevent states from restricting the laws and systems of people carrying guns.

Most states in the United States currently have no restrictions on gun ownership. A few, such as New York State , have restrictions. However, due to insufficient local government power and no right to search the border to see whether people are carrying guns, guns are liberalized. The ban is actually just an acknowledgment of reality, and it can even allow good people to get some protection to a certain extent. It can be regarded as a helpless choice.

Overturning the right to abortion has a great impact on the United States. It is no exaggeration to say that this may even lead to the "second civil war" in the United States. It will lead to the United States even being divided into "abortion states" and "anti-abortion states" in the future based on whether abortion is allowed.

China and the United States have completely different political systems and social forms, so it is difficult for Chinese people to understand how serious it is for the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn abortion rights. Although legally speaking, even after the U.S. Supreme Court overturns the right to abortion, it is just a delegation of power to Voters in each state can still fight in each state; some people say that no matter what, there must be some states in the United States that recognize abortion as legal, and at most they can be transferred.

This kind of thinking firstly does not understand the United States, and secondly, it does not understand reality.

Let’s talk about the latter first. Indeed, as long as there is still one state in the United States that allows legal abortion, and the United States does not restrict population movement, it’s a big deal that we can just change places. But what about reality? Taking China as an example, imagine that if legal abortion is only allowed in Hainan and is banned in other provinces, how many people can afford the transportation and accommodation fees to and from Hainan? This is not to mention that there will definitely be a long queue at that time. It is possible that I am almost giving birth and I haven’t arrived yet.

As for the former, we need to start with the American system.

As we all know, the United States is a common law system , and the judiciary is adjusted through precedents, and the United States is a federal system. The government is divided into federal and state governments. Military and diplomatic powers belong to the federal government, while internal affairs belong to state governments. Of course, After more than two hundred years, they have become even more intertwined, but both are democratically elected governments and are equal in many aspects, unlike in China where the central government is larger than the provinces and the provinces are larger than the municipalities.

For more than 100 years, the current American states have always been part of the United Kingdom, and Americans also consider themselves British. Even during the American Revolution , Americans called the British troops "government troops." "The United States and the United Kingdom have always had a very special relationship. Look at the fact that the British strategic nuclear submarine directly uses ballistic missiles provided by the Americans. How trustworthy it is.

The United States is a United States that first had states and then others. However, the United States has never had a particularly strong backbone. From the beginning of its founding, balance has been a priority. The current power system in the United States was barely established after thirteen states quarreled for more than eight months. At that time, the U.S. Congress itself had no money. When the quarrels between members were particularly fierce, they had to hire lawyers to lead prayers at their own expense. It's halftime.

The American power mechanism established under such a system has indeed balanced the interests of the states relatively well. It was originally a half-baked mechanism. It may be a "miracle given by God" to be able to survive until now. Of course, the main reason is the good geographical location of the United States. , if the Atlantic Ocean were narrower and the European countries were more peaceful, there would be no United States.

Nowadays, some people always advocate that the American power system is the end of history and the best of mankind. That is a typical consequentialism. As long as you are powerful, everything you do is right. But whoever really believes that the American power system has shaped the American myth is a real fool. Too many countries around the world have proven this.

Back to the U.S. Supreme Court, which denies that the right to abortion is protected by the Constitution and leaves it up to each state to decide. This is the traditional American belief that states have higher power than the federal government in domestic affairs.However, since the founding of the United States, there have been too many differences among states, which have further intensified over the course of more than two hundred years of development, which will inevitably lead to further polarization of antagonisms among states.

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Many friends may think that it is just abortion. Is it so serious?

This still does not understand the United States, and it has seriously underestimated the impact of this incident on the United States. It must not be measured by China's standards. In fact, this is similar to China's resumption of women's surnames after marriage, which will also bring about a series of problems. This series of adjustments is an all-round setback. For the United States, it is an extremely serious resurgence of conservatism.

Chinese female friends can think about it, are they willing to add the surname "Fu" in front of their surname after marriage, and accept the corresponding adjustments to social and family relationships? If you are unwilling, you can understand the anger of Americans to a certain extent.

More importantly, there are more complex issues involved behind this matter. There are four outstanding points:

The first is the two major political correctness disputes between religion and liberalism in the United States;

The second is the Constitution under the framework of separation of powers The third is the dispute between interpretation and the limitation of public power; the third is the dispute between morality and law, etc.; the fourth is the shaking of the U.S. Constitution and the separation of powers.

The jurisprudence of the United States, especially the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court, is an adjustment to the entire national system within the framework of the separation of powers and the complex relationship between the federal and state governments in the United States. This topic is too big, so I won’t go into more detail. It’s good that everyone has this awareness. .

Let’s go back to these two things themselves.

There are three main things that divide society most in the United States: race, gun ownership, and abortion rights. Since the United States adopts democratically elected politics and a winner-takes-all approach, the two parties must artificially create differences in their battles in order to maximize their votes. Behind the three things mentioned are a whole set of thinking. logic.

Race and gun ownership are easy to understand. The former is because the United States is a country of immigrants, and the latter involves issues of American history, tradition and interests. The right to abortion is different, it involves a battle between God and man.

The United States has three major mainstream ideological cores: capitalism, religion, and American centrism. These three cores are extremely expansionary. Under the influence of the church, the unique political concept of the United States was formed: "Manifest Destiny", which has profoundly affected all political, military, and foreign actions of the United States for hundreds of years until today.

In addition to the combined efforts of the three, there are bound to be differences, especially the two concepts of capitalism and religion. The United States was born when Protestants landed in North America, and Christian tradition strictly opposed abortion; along with religion, capitalism also came to North America after the British Industrial Revolution. Capitalism inherently advocates liberalism, and freedom is also the core of the American spirit, and abortion itself It is the freedom of women to dispose of their own bodies.

Since religion and liberalism in the United States are absolute political correctness that must never be challenged, anyone who dares to stand up against these two is seeking death. Therefore, political party struggles cannot be directly involved, so they seized on "abortion rights" and launched a fierce struggle.

Liberals believe that prohibiting abortion is depriving women of their freedom, and thus depriving people of their freedom, which goes against the spirit of American liberalism; conservatives believe that unborn fetuses are also life, and life is given by God, and prohibiting abortion is to save the life given by God. Not to interfere with freedom.

In more than a hundred years of political party integration, conservatives have basically become supporters of the Republican Party , and liberals have basically become supporters of the Democratic Party. Therefore, whether to support abortion or not is no longer that simple.

On the surface it is a partisan struggle, but in reality it exposes the nature of a religious country under the packaging of modern liberal democracy in the United States. In the final analysis, the United States, which was founded on a monotheistic religion , naturally formed an opposition between divinity and humanity, which has many fundamental consequences for the modern spirit. contradiction.

In comparison, China has had diverse beliefs since ancient times, emphasizing that people can become gods, and unifying human nature and divinity, which reduces many unnecessary conflicts and differences in social development.

Mortal Jiang Ziya can become a god

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Let’s briefly talk about philosophy, and then talk about reality.

The U.S. Constitution stipulates the separation of legislative, executive, and judicial powers of the federal government and checks and balances of power. Although it does not require states to do the same, in fact, states have basically established a separation of powers mechanism.

The U.S. Supreme Court has become a very special institution. Under the mechanism of separation of powers and case law , in order to maintain its independence, the U.S. Supreme Court has adopted a life-long tenure of justices. They can only leave office unless they die, resign, or are impeached. , it is not unusual for someone to work for decades. For example, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes served for more than 29 years and was 91 years old when he left office.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

This leads to the fact that the replacement of justices is very luck-based. Trump was lucky. When he was in office, three justices were vacated. Although the Democratic Party blocked it at that time, For example, it was required that the term of justices should not exceed 18 years and that a president could nominate at most two justices within four years, but in the end it failed to stop Trump.

So the Republican Party took the opportunity to recruit three conservative justices, resulting in nine justices on the U.S. Supreme Court, six conservatives, three liberals, and three new conservatives (Gorsuch in 2017, Gorsuch in 2018 Kavanaugh in 2020 and Barrett in 2020 ) are all firmly opposed to abortion. The Supreme Court has 6 conservatives: 3 liberals, so there is this 6:3 vote.

American conservatives have had a hard time in recent years. In foreign affairs, due to the rise of China, they can still use the Chinese threat as an excuse to engage in neo-isolationism, return manufacturing to the United States, and reverse globalization; but at home, it is very painful. The key This is the rise of women’s rights and sexual minorities (LGBT). In recent years, LGBT has evolved into the LGBT+ group, which includes at least nine groups.

LGBT: Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Transgender (Transgender);

LGBT+: On the basis of LGBT, add Queer , Transgender , Bisexual People , heterosexual allies and heterosexual allies who support homosexuality, and currently there are also new asexual and so on.

I won’t go into details about the town of the feminist movement. After all, Europe and the United States are the origins, and LGBT originated in the United States. The “Stonewall” incident in New York on June 28, 1969 was the starting point of the gay rights movement in the United States and even the world. It was also the first A large-scale gay resistance to police arrest gave birth to the LGBT Pride Parade and LGBT Pride Month.

After half a century of development, this has now become an unquestionable iron law in American society. As powerful as , Disney also suffered severe threats because it did not express support clearly. Therefore, it was decided to remove the LGBT+ group in animated works in 2022. The proportion has been increased to at least 50%; the United States also allows citizens to assert their own gender, including claiming that they are neither male nor female but transgender. In 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court also ruled that "transgender students are allowed to use male or female gender that matches their gender identity" Women's restroom".

I won’t go into details anymore. It’s enough for everyone to understand the strong rise of LGBT+ in the United States.

This is absolutely intolerable to conservatives. If this trend continues, conservatives will be disbanded, so conservatives must fight back. During the Trump period, in addition to appointing three conservative justices, he also appointed three conservative justices in various states and counties ( U.S. counties (higher than cities) have a large number of conservatives installed in the judicial system.

Since 2018, Republicans and conservatives have set off a storm in various states. The core is to restrict abortion at all costs. The federal government can say that abortion is protected by the Constitution, but when it comes to local governments, there are many ways to restrict it.

State legislation: Nearly 30 states in the United States are formulating or enacting anti-abortion bans, and 13 states' anti-abortion bans will take effect immediately after the "Roe v. Wade" case is overturned.

Administrative measures: More than 600 abortion restriction policies have been introduced across the United States, and some have become statutory laws. The most famous one is the "Texas Heartbeat Act" passed in May 2021 and effective on September 1 of that year. It stipulates that as long as the fetal heartbeat is detected (usually the 6th week of pregnancy), abortion must be prohibited regardless of pregnancy and whether the fetus is healthy.

The United States has also taken the "people's war" to the extreme. Also in the "Texas Heartbeat Act," it directly authorizes everyone to punish anyone who violates the regulations and participates in the abortion process, whether it is a pregnant woman, a doctor, a hospital, a pregnant woman's family, or even a pregnant woman. Pregnant women who go to have abortions, drivers, etc. can all file lawsuits unconditionally.

follows Idaho bans abortion after six weeks, Arizona bans abortion after 15 weeks.

In order to ensure the implementation of the decree, some states have also banned places where abortion operations can be performed on a large scale. For example, Florida (58,600 square kilometers, more than 21 million people) only retains one institution in the state capital that can perform abortion operations.

As we all know, the efficiency of American hospitals is far from that of China. For one institution, Florida is the fourth most populous state in the United States. With the degree of sexual freedom in the United States, at least tens of thousands of women need abortions every year, and Florida prohibits 15 It is not easy to schedule an abortion within 15 weeks of pregnancy.

What’s more, there are even many anti-abortion states. In order to get an abortion in time, you have to travel a long distance. How many people can afford the cost? In just four months last year, Texas more than 5,000 women had cross-state abortions, more than ten times more than in previous years. What about the more who have no money? This has led to a surge in abortions by purchasing abortion pills without going through a doctor. For example, one week after the Texas Heartbeat Act came into effect, orders for abortion pills surged by 1,180%. Without medical examination and scientific use of drugs, women's lives will inevitably be seriously threatened.

There are more measures, such as restricting the purchase of drugs, increasing penalties, doctors dare to provide abortion assistance, and are often fined tens of thousands of dollars or even jailed, etc.

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The division of the United States is almost irreversible.

In fact, even the "Roe v. Wade" case that legalized abortion in the United States in 1973 was nothing more than the Supreme Court of the United States. It ultimately turned a human rights issue into a so-called scientific issue and artificially set a pregnancy period. time to define whether an individual has the right to abortion.

is roughly divided into three sections:

The first stage: the first three months of pregnancy, states in the United States cannot enact laws restricting abortion.

But as mentioned above, even if some states comply with the legislative requirements to ban abortion after 15 weeks, they can completely use administrative means. For example, there is only one institution in the state that can legally perform abortions. For example, there is a strict limit on the number of abortions that can be performed per day. There are There are countermeasures under the policy. This is not a specialty of China. In fact, because the federal government and state governments in the United States are equal to a certain extent, it is much more serious than China.

The second stage: between 4 and 6 months of pregnancy, states can restrict the right to abortion on the grounds of protecting the mother;

The third stage: after the 7th month of pregnancy, states can legislate to ban abortion.

The harmony of the U.S. Supreme Court, the unique power structure of the United States, and the divided ideological core of the United States have made whether women have the right to decide their own bodies become the focus of the dispute between God and man.

What's more, this is just the beginning. There are three major rulings that have shaped today's America that may be overturned: couples' right to contraception is protected by the Constitution in 1965, homosexual behavior is protected by the Constitution in 2003, and same-sex marriage is protected in 2015. Protected by the Constitution.

By the way, don’t try to fight magic with magic. You can declare yourself a male, then go for an abortion, and then claim you are still a female. This is useless. The US government officials are not fools. What they directly restrict are abortion sites, technology, Medications, doctors themselves. Of course, unless you have money, private medical institutions can do whatever they want.

But for ordinary Americans, we can only wish them well.Of course, it can be expected that contraceptive drugs and devices will prosper, and that new interest groups will strongly support conservatives. The U.S. Supreme Court is supposed to defend the dignity of the U.S. Constitution, but instead it plays with and interprets the Constitution wantonly to interfere with executive and judicial power, and more seriously undermines the cornerstone of the U.S.'s rule of law society. Doesn't this shake the foundation of the U.S.?

No matter whether God wins or man wins in the end, the loser is the United States.