Supreme Court to Overturn Roe v. Wade

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The Supreme Court is set to strike down Roe v. Wade, the landmark reproductive rights case that recognized abortion as a constitutionally protected right, according to POLITICO, which dropped a leaked draft of a majority opinion Monday night.

The case centers on a Mississippi abortion law that bans the procedure after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The court heard oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization on Dec. 1, 2021.

POLITICO obtained a draft of the opinion, written by Justice Samuel Alito.

“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” he writes, also referring to Planned Parenthood v. Casey. “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”

POLITICO noted, “No draft decision in the modern history of the court has been disclosed publicly while a case was still pending. The unprecedented revelation is bound to intensify the debate over what was already the most controversial case on the docket this term.”

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/b...aft-of-majority-opinion-obtained-by-politico/

Cue the virtue signaling
 
It was a terrible decision (I don't believe the court should be making legislation like this). That said, banning abortion would be awful as well. It doesn't work.
 
The law prohibited abortions after 15 weeks which is more than 1/3 of the way through the pregnancy and possibly enoug time for a woman to find out she is pregnant.. I think the pro-choice group chose the wrong law to challenge and it is going to backfire.
 
exGOPer said:
The Supreme Court is set to strike down Roe v. Wade, the landmark reproductive rights case that recognized abortion as a constitutionally protected right,
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That's right ,Roe and Casey got it right. The decision was argued largely on our 14th Amendment rights. However in my view there is an even stronger argument to be made based on the 9th Amendment which protects unenumerated rights. One of those being the right of each of us to control our own bodies. This is a self-evident, inalienable right and a perfect example of a basic, unenumerated right that the ninth Amendment was intended to help protect. In Roe, the decision was 6 to 2 with Blackmun joined by Burger, Douglas ,Brennan, Stuart, Marshal, and Powell.

One only has to read Roe, and then the Alito Draft Opinion now being circulated, to realize the fatal flaws in Alito's arguments. Contemplating the absurdity of letting each State decide differently what a women's inalienable right over her own body shall be, is a painful reminder of how critical it is that our highest Court is peopled with those of the highest integrity and intellectual powers.

Assuming the Court strikes down Roe by adopting the flawed and juvenile argument of the current Majority, women in states that ban abortion must try to bring suit on Constitutional Grounds that such State laws violate their self-evident inalienable rights protected by the Ninth Amendment, which would be new grounds. The right to privacy protected by the 14th Amendment was found compelling by the Burger Court, but that decision will soon be superseded.

The current Court's majority is determined by those passing a litmus test on whether they would go along with overturning Roe. It is a sad day for America that we find ourselves with a Court dominated by intellectual lightweights.
 
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piezoe said:
That's right ,Roe and Casey got it right. The decision was argued largely on our 14th Amendment rights. However in my view there is an even stronger argument to be made based on the 9th Amendment which protects unenumerated rights. One of those being the right of each of us to control our own bodies. This is a self-evident, inalienable right and a perfect example of a basic, unenumerated right that the ninth Amendment was intended to help protect. In Roe, the decision was 6 to 2 with Blackmun joined by Burger, Douglas ,Brennan, Stuart, Marshal, and Powell.

One only has to read Roe, and then the Alito Draft Opinion now being circulated, to realize the fatal flaws in Alito's arguments. Contemplating the absurdity of letting each State decide differently what a women's inalienable right over her own body shall be, is a painful reminder of how critical it is that our highest Court is peopled with those of the highest integrity and intellectual powers.

Assuming the Court strikes down Roe by adopting the flawed and juvenile argument of the current Majority, women in states that ban abortion must try to bring suit on Constitutional Grounds that such State laws violate their self-evident inalienable rights protected by the Ninth Amendment, which would be new grounds. The right to privacy protected by the 14th Amendment was found compelling by the Burger Court, but that decision will soon be superseded.

The current Court's majority is determined by those passing a litmus test on whether they would go along with overturning Roe. It is a sad day for America that we find ourselves with a Court dominated by intellectual lightweights.
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"One of those being the right of each of us to control our own bodies" No, you don't have that right. You surrendered it when you accepted the rule by decree to mandate a jab. Your personal health rights are not situational as you lefties would have it. We either have it or we don't, and we don't. It's not an apples and oranges argument, it's black and white, either/or, one or the other, there is no grey area. How do you like authoritarianism now?
 
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