Discussion: John Roberts Joins Liberals To Block Louisiana Abortion Law

Of course he did. He is a political hack and he knows the Republicans need abortion as a political issue.

Why is this a surprise?

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You would prefer he voted otherwise ?

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Kavanaugh wrote a dissenting opinion ’

Meanwhile Kavanaugh revealed that he is indeed a good little stooge who hates abortion

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So, does Maine’s Republican Party girl Suzie Collins still believe Brett Kavaugh’s promise to not over turn Roe Vs Wade?

Party girl Suzie is a wind bag…her label as a moderate is BS!

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Or he’s trolling us, getting ready to rape Roe dead.

Doctors trying to get admitting privileges is not as easy as Republican legislators and appointed justices think. In Missouri we have two PP clinics, and only the one in St. Louis can perform abortions. After the Texas case lost the Mid Missouri clinic tried to get back to providing abortions but the state legislature said they had to get admitting privileges, the doctors couldn’t because the two or three hospitals in Columbia MO wouldn’t grant them, and this was just for administering the pill form of medical abortion.
So what this does is that these TRAP laws try to close all but one clinic in a state. The courts have not ruled on how far a women must travel to get an abortion, is traveling 200, 300, 500 miles too far? And then there is the waiting game laws, where a women is seen and then has to come back to get the procedure or pills in 36 or 72 hours. Just imagine if these type of laws or regulations were in place to purchase a firearm.

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So, the FOUR Opus Dei members all voted the way the Catholic Church has told them to vote, and the Episcopalian voted with the liberal judges.

Typical.

And they say that there is separation of Church and State in America. pffffft.

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Kavanaugh’s dissent is a klaxon telling people exactly what kind of a scalia-grade asshle he is. Prior to Roe v. Wade, iirc, abortion cases had a hard time getting heard because, by the time a case wound its way through the courts, the named plaintiff would no longer be pregnant, and judges could simply declare the issue moot. One of the good things the Roe court did was to say "that’s bullsht" and rule that states couldn’t win just by delaying until the named plaintiff was gone.

The dissent based on the “45 days” crap is pretty clearly a call for a return to that kind of disgusting misreading of the law. After the 45 days, according to his reasoning, doctors would have to start all the way at the bottom of the judicial ladder again, and if a doctor had to find a different job while waiting for the case to be decided, back to square one.

(And yeah, the record not only of hospitals refusing admitting privileges but of threats against hospitals considering granting such privileges is clear at this point. It’s not by accident.)

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It’s every bit as hard as they think. That’s why they came up with the idea.

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Susan Collins - look closely at this decision, both Gorsuch and Kavanaugh whom YOU SAID would support Roe voted to stop abortions. I hope you get beaten to death by your opponent for your lies.

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I would prefer to see abortions preformed in hospitals rather than clinics, that way only the patient and staff would know what procedure was being done, ergo no outside protests which is nobody else business.

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Using this logic, all of those Urgent Care centers popping up all around America should have to close if their Providers don’t have admitting privileges to a nearby inpatient facility… After all, patients who show up with a headache might be having an aneurysm and need to be sent to the OR promptly.

We shouldn’t allow the debate on these cases to remain narrowly focused at the target group.

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Yes and it’s not needed. It’s one of those “safety” concerns to make people think that they care, it’s really is part of the salvo to get abortions criminalized.

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But since Roe v. Wade is not mentioned then she has nothing to worry about. She’ll only get ‘concerned’ when there is a full on attack on Roe, and nothing to be concerned about with these skirmishes.

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Roberts is Catholic too.

Nope. Born into a Catholic family, but attends an Episcopalian church and identifies as such.

Sotomayer is also Catholic, but she is a liberal and keeps her religion to herself, unlike the other 4 members of Opus Dei (who don’t allow women to be members anyway.)

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Kavanaugh wrote a dissenting opinion in which he said the court’s action was premature because the state had made clear it would allow abortion providers an additional 45 days to obtain admitting privileges before it started enforcing the law.

Justice Rapeypants, working hard to distinguish himself as a first-class legal contortionist, willing to seize upon any chain of random thoughts to “justify” the decision he wants, and also willing to actually sign his name below that dreck.

Trump distinguishes himself by being a man with absolutely zero shame, and therefore untouchable by many of the non-governmental institutions that have historically relied upon norms and a shared sense of decency to police politicians. Kavanaugh is a creature of the same stripe.

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In all fairness, I believe office holders are entirely within their rights to be guided by their religious beliefs. That’s not what separation means. Separation means the government can’t formally promote or suppress any religious sect or dogma. So, the government could not fund a church-run program to dissuade women from getting abortions, or even a church-run program that performed abortions.