These restrictions on bodily autonomy are both heartbreaking and infuriating, but I am very glad to read that they are having consequences for the states who are rolling them out. Losing out on doctors, losing out on college students, losing out on vacationers. Their governments and people can start to see the results of their actions.
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It's amazing that other states have declined so rapidly and dramatically that Missouri has moved up to only the sixth worst state to live in in the country! As I recall, they and Alabama have historically vied for the top spot (or bottom spot, as it were).
Here are the allegedly 10 worst states to live in, from the article linked in this one:
Not only did the police target this black man for essentially no reason (really? You chase a driver, which is dangerous to the entire community, because he's missing a mud flap?), the responding officers gave mixed commands at the same time, and then assaulted him with a dog while he had already surrendered.
Anyone want to bet that the culprit here gets a paid vacation while his department investigates and finds no wrongdoing?
We need to redo the police system in the US from the ground up.
Yes, it is. Plenty of districts get away with racism and other oppression through voter suppression and gerrymandering, but they at least have elections, corrupted though they may be.
It's absolutely infuriating and just gets worse as the article goes on.
This town doesn't even hold elections so that it can keep its white families in power. It's shocking that somewhere in the US has gotten away with this for so long.
It has no chance of passing the House, anyway. It's a good initiative, but House Republicans have already made it clear that they won't even consider it.