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A Tennessee Republican hopes to establish an "abortion trafficking" felony for adults who help pregnant minors get an out-of-state abortion without parental permission, an effort reproductive health advocates argue will run afoul of constitutional rights such as interstate travel.

Rep. Jason Zachary, R-Knoxville, filed House Bill 1895 on Monday. The legislation would establish a new Class C felony, which could carry three to 15 years in prison, for an adult that "recruits, harbors or transports" a pregnant minor for the purposes of receiving an out-of-state abortion or for getting abortion medication.

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[-] Theprogressivist@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

Do you have any sources? I never heard of confederate soldiers being lied to.

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world -2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_Army#Morale_and_motivations

Some historians emphasize that Civil War soldiers were driven by political ideology, holding firm beliefs about the importance of liberty, Union, or state rights, or about the need to protect or to destroy slavery. Others point to less overtly political reasons to fight, such as the defense of one's home and family, or the honor and brotherhood to be preserved when fighting alongside other men. Most historians agree that, no matter what he thought about when he went into the war, the experience of combat affected him profoundly and sometimes affected his reasons for continuing to fight.

Now there is also another bit where it acknowledges some were explicitly fighting to defend slavery. However since what those researchers are using is letters....

Only the wealthiest southerners could read and write, and if you were from the South and wealthy, it's a pretty safe bet your family owned slaves.

But the vast amount of southerners were too poor to ever afford slaves. So that greatly skews the sample.

But even the ones who explicitly stated they were fighting to keep slavery legal, the feds and Lincoln were adamant they weren't going to outlaw slavery on a federal level.

So those traitors who said they fought to keep slavery legal, were fighting to prevent something that wasn't going to happen. They just thought it would because the leaders of the Confederacy lied to them about it.

Just like the 1/6 traitors believed the reason they were attempting to overthrow the American government, was because they thought Biden stole an election.

Just because a conservative believes something, doesn't mean it's true.

[-] Theprogressivist@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

I see nothing here of soldiers being lied to.

[-] Cowlitz@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

They weren't. Its just like today where they were steeped in propaganda. Thats no excuse. We should have crushed them after the war. Since we didn't we have had to repeatedly deal with the traitors.

Even now we should be crushing Texas instead of playing their games. We are responsible for enabling their abhorrent behavior.

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