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Yes. I have two sisters that could lose access to birth control and planned parenthood. One of them dates a black man and already gets racial slurs thrown at them in public. These results are only going to embolden that behavior. America has voted for a mysogynistic sexist at its highest ceremonial office, you don't think that affects what is acceptable discourse? You don't think the SCOTUS is changed for a generation now?

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"Yes. I have two sisters that could lose access to birth control and planned parenthood."

By what specific mechanism could a Trump presidency cause them to lose access to birth control or abortion?

It's not just a trump presidency, it's a trump presidency rubber stamping a republican house and senate, which will follow through on their stated intention to install judges to repeal Roe V Wade, and to establish a more conservative, evangelical agenda.

That's a big oft-overlooked point: Trump seems to have much more moderate views on social issues than the Republican Party (and he didn't win on a very Republican platform), but the problem is that he also will likely not be in a position to contradict or overrule the party on those issues (or terribly inclined to do so in the first place).

The trend in the House and Senate and many state governments since 2008 is far more concerning to me than Trump's election.

Yes, it's the combo that I am worried about.

Did you forget that the Democrats controlled the House and Senate until 2011? In fact, the Democrats had a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate until February of 2010.

Yes, they controlled it and then lost it. As opposed to controlling and maintaining. Doesn't that speak to a growing disconnect between them and the people voting on those seats (phrased as such to acknowledge both political changes and redistricting ones)?

> Trump seems to have much more moderate views on social issues than the Republican Party

Trump also doesn't seem to have much of a view at all, during campaign he expressed one thing and its opposite multiple times, he craves attention and acceptance and if the GOP does that (and lets him enact the petty revenges he's know for) I don't expect he'll have any issue enacting evangelical policies. Hell, he explicitly stated he'd leave the presidential busywork to his VP.

e.g., the nomination and appointment of a Justice:

See Currier:

- http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/currier-v-jackson...

- https://www.statnews.com/2016/07/01/mississippi-abortion-cli...

Also see Whole Woman's Health:

- http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/whole-womans-heal...

- http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/28/us/supreme-court-texas-abo...

The Republican party of Trump is not the Republican party pre-Trump.

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