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In reply to the discussion: If an executive order can limit guns, can it also restrict abortion rights? [View all]JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)17. Romney said he'd stop funding for planned parenthood.
Also said he'd stop the roll out of Obamacare.
Bush ended federal funding for stem-cell research.
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If an executive order can limit guns, can it also restrict abortion rights? [View all]
dkf
Jan 2013
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How so? It sounds like he just wanted people to coordinate things in the White House.
dkf
Jan 2013
#25
It also gives preferences to religious organizations in their efforts to obtain fed funding.
JoePhilly
Jan 2013
#38
I'm not defending him anywhere near what the people who support the Bush tax cuts are doing.
dkf
Jan 2013
#86
No, he could not restrict aboriton rights. Limits on guns are very limited. see link to Atlantic.
Agnosticsherbet
Jan 2013
#7
I think he could end government contracts to companies who supply certain weapons
JoePhilly
Jan 2013
#21
I suspect there are ways the DFARs could be updated to move in this direction.
JoePhilly
Jan 2013
#111
And the Framing, Sir: 'Support Abortion Rights? can't Be For Gun Control!'
The Magistrate
Jan 2013
#89
Oh, is where you try to convince us this is the EO that keeps his college transcripts and BC secret?
PeaceNikki
Jan 2013
#32
I'll echo the comment above. It revoked GW Bush's Exec Order that set a 12 year hold on records.
pinto
Jan 2013
#57
Only dictators claim authority to use government power to abolish rights that preexist our
jody
Jan 2013
#13
Glad you liked it because it's true. It's PITIFUL that anyone would believe otherwise. nt
jody
Jan 2013
#39
Your Immediate Recurrence To 'They're Gonna Grab My Gun!' Sir, Is Simply Pitiable
The Magistrate
Jan 2013
#49
Are insults your best? Why not use facts or perhaps there are none to support your assertion? nt
jody
Jan 2013
#53
Dubya did the same with executive orders and I protested. Did you support him? I didn't. nt
jody
Jan 2013
#42
The idea of natural rights is nice and all, but pretty meaningless in a practical sense.
Hosnon
Jan 2013
#63
No, states ratified our Constitution only under the condition a Bill of Rights were to be added. nt
jody
Jan 2013
#66
Please read and understand SCOTUS UNITED STATES v. CRUIKSHANK ET AL. 92 U.S. 542 (1876) nt
jody
Jan 2013
#68
So that case says gun ownership is an inherent right that predates the US Constitution?
JoePhilly
Jan 2013
#99
Obviously you didn't read Steven's dissent. He cited CRUIKSHANK and did not dispute the Courts
jody
Jan 2013
#105
I'm not sure authors of our Constitution expected a two-party system with one party holding the
jody
Jan 2013
#59
Yes, but the states blew Nixon off--that's why the act was ginned up to snatch back that highway
MADem
Jan 2013
#45
Perhaps I'm not reading this correctly, what do either have to do with Executive Orders?
hughee99
Jan 2013
#54
executive orders are essentially commands only to the rest of the executive branch
unblock
Jan 2013
#30
Obama could order the federal government, including the US military, to end all contracts with
JoePhilly
Jan 2013
#47
The manufacturer would simply split the company and produce "separate but equal" guns n ammo.
MADem
Jan 2013
#80
No one's advocating that, but trying to make a law limiting commerce is not the answer.
MADem
Jan 2013
#113
Executive Orders only can apply to employees of Executive Agencies, they are not law.
1-Old-Man
Jan 2013
#74
If they were so inclined they would do it anyway regardless of this. It did not stop bush
still_one
Jan 2013
#84