The leaked draft opinion that set America aflame Monday night contains more than proof that a majority of Supreme Court justices voted to overturn abortion rights. It’s peppered with hints revealing an openness to outlawing abortion nationwide, always the end game for the core of the anti-abortion movement.
Draft Supreme Court Decision Charts Path For Outlawing Abortion Everywhere
Well duh, like that was the whole point all along, they made no secret of it.
Ominous tidings for:
Imma catch it, but mmmmmm, 7-11 pizza.
Where’s the logic in his statement? There isn’t any. I’m actually appalled by his assertion. Truthfully I’m so angered that I can’t write.
Time for a walk. Clear the brain.
Thanks to the following people everywhere for this completely avoidable disaster that has been decades in the works:
Both parties are the same so I’m not voting.
I’m not voting for any establishment candidates, I’m voting for: fill in the blank with unelectable candidate of choice
Roe will never be overturned, my vote doesn’t count anyway
etc…
I fear that this is a correct assessment. At the same time, I believe that if Gorsuch and Kavanaugh vote to end Roe v Wade, they are guilty of perjury. Both, during their confirmation hearing declared their fealty and support for court precedents, they did so under oath. In this case, they should be impeached and indicted.
If a fetus is a person, than abortion is self-defense against a third party threatening grievous bodily harm against the pregnant woman.
“By this logic, it would be an open question whether even born individuals, including young children or those afflicted with certain developmental or medical conditions, merit protection as ‘persons,’” [Alito] writes,
Note to Justice Alito: In determining the meaning of any Act of Congress, or of any ruling, regulation, or interpretation of the various administrative bureaus and agencies of the United States, the words “person”, “human being”, “child”, and “individual”, shall include every infant member of the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development. 1 U.S. Code §8
Why aren’t defenders of our rights not using the argument that this is an attempt to impose theocracy, in this case an illiberal religious binary of human life vs. non-human life, with human life beginning at conception? In fact, following that theocratic logic would leave us with funerals for miscarriages, which are in the early stages very common and even in principle when embryos are not implanted. Of course, no one really does. Many embryos pass unobserved and unnoticed into oblivion.
Imposition of that regime is why they’re disingenuous in their arguments and why they’ll absolutely go after LGBT rights next and then of course non-marital straight sex.
No one should treat this as a single event. It’s just the beginning of a multi-prong attack on all things offensive to religious extremists. They have their Court and NOTHING is going to stop their holier than thou motives. Not the Constitution…or the will of the people. Step one was today. Step two is soon to come as is 3 and 4 and so forth. What can stop them?
They are not guilty of perjury, at least not based on what they said in their confirmation hearings. All they said was platitudes about “law of the land” and “settled law” or that they’d keep an open mind. They didn’t promise not to overturn anything, and you’ll never be able to prove they were lying about the platitudes.
People argue, he writes, that fetuses shouldn’t get legal protection until they amass the necessary characteristics to count as a person, naming “sentience, self awareness, the ability to reason.”
So if Alito wants to make every fertilized egg a person will do the laws also apply to newly created person? If the pregnancy is fatal to the woman who is carrying the newly created person will the infant be charged with manslaughter? ( a bit of irony there don’t you think)
Would every fertilized egg that doesn’t implant be considered a person? And how would be count these, or make the carrier responsible for losing the fertilized egg?
At what point can the carrier get a SSN for the fertilized egg? Get a child tax credit?
How about a fertilized egg gets to be called a person when they can live outside their host?
That is so 1973.
Good question. No one knows when life begins, what a soul is, if anyone has one, or if there is a God. But instead of people minding their own business, we are being governed by people who believe those things, without any evidence of anything. I guess politicians don’t want to offend religious people who are not extremists?
I can dig it, can you?
This is the hand we are dealt. If we all vote like we are capable of doing we could have several seats picked up at least in the Senate and solid majorities in the House.
The alternative?
Our torpor and our resultant vastly reduced quality of life
Any rights that we have must be rooted in “history”?
Kiss the modern world, and the very notion of modernity and progress, goodbye, then.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the evidence in this case is going to establish that the defendant did recklessly and dangerously proceed down and through the decedent’s birth canal, thereby causing her death.