“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled," Justice Alito writes in an initial majority draft

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Anonymous wrote:Can Congress legalize abortion in all states?

If they had the numbers in the Senate, yes.

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Anonymous wrote:McDonald's Happy Meal is more venerable than Protestant opposition to abortion. Prior to 1978 or so, they mostly just didn't care. It was a Catholic thing.

It wasn’t even a Catholic thing! Traditionally abortion was allowed until quickening. Then the patriarchy started to get restless and wanted more control.

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The republicans aren’t going to be able to gerrymander their way out of this.

[Anonymous]

Here are the people who will be harmed if Roe is overturned and abortion made illegal.

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Anonymous wrote:Where does Alito get the requirement that a right is not Constitutional unless it is “deeply rooted in history?” That’s some crazy bullshit. White male property rights are the only rights deeply rooted in history. Every other right was denied in some form by states until relatively recently. Oppression is deeply rooted in history.

Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner. You think this stops at Roe with these “originalists”? They’ve already let it slip sodomy laws next and then interracial marriage. Then maybe blacks and women loose their right to vote… no, I’m not hysterical, your just not paying attention.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:An alternative view

So he wants to force his views and violate women’s bodies?

Apple doesn’t fall far.

+1. Sounds like this guy inherited the rape gene.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where does Alito get the requirement that a right is not Constitutional unless it is “deeply rooted in history?” That’s some crazy bullshit. White male property rights are the only rights deeply rooted in history. Every other right was denied in some form by states until relatively recently. Oppression is deeply rooted in history.

Alito and the rest of right wing scum on the Court - including that idiot Roberts - are judicial activists. They’re bought and paid for (literally, in the case of Drunky Kavanaugh. Amy is an actual cult member handmaiden).

We’ve been screaming that this court is illegitimate for a long time. Maybe now some more people will tune in.

+1

It’s broken.

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Anonymous wrote:Griswold v. Connecticut, upon which Roe is based, was a good decision. States shouldn't be Constitutionally allowed to ban contraception. It's impossible to write a coherent decision that limits a state's ability to interfere with reproductive rights to abortion while requiring states to leave contraception alone.

Griswold isn't based on any firmer Constitutional grounds than Roe, though.

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United States of America

1776-2000 RIP

A future Edward Gibbon will note the eventual collapse starting when George W. Bush took office. After him came:
- trillions for endless wars
- Citizens United
- rise of Federalist Society
- and now, end of Roe v. Wade

This country is gone. There is no unity. If 9/11 happened today, people would say "so what?7

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can Congress legalize abortion in all states?

If they had the numbers in the Senate, yes.

If they said every state should allow abortion to 15 weeks would Manchin or any of the Repubs vote with them? (They need to act now before they lose seats in the midterms)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:United States of America

1776-2000 RIP

A future Edward Gibbon will note the eventual collapse starting when George W. Bush took office. After him came:
- trillions for endless wars
- Citizens United
- rise of Federalist Society
- and now, end of Roe v. Wade

This country is gone. There is no unity. If 9/11 happened today, people would say "so what?7

Yup. Plus abolishing the fairness doctrine.

The US is trash. Thanks to the amoral GOP.

[Anonymous]

If the Texas abortion law hasn't changed Republican popularity in Texas, what makes anyone think it will change the political landscape elsewhere?

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Dems in conservative-run states should start introducing bills to make men who impregnate women responsible for ALL of their bills related to pregnancy, from doctor appointments to missed days of work to new maternity clothes. And then the hospital bills. And the postnatal bills. And of course all the money to raise the kid. But if life starts from conception then the man needs to be on the hook from the moment of conception, since without his sperm a woman wouldn't have those bills.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can Congress legalize abortion in all states?

If they had the numbers in the Senate, yes.

But this Court would strike down such a law, so passing it would be of limited value. The only way to protect abortion rights from assault by the right would be a constitutional amendment, but the left is no where near having the numbers for that.

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Anonymous wrote:ITA. The leaker needs to be identified and disbarred. Not sure any actual laws were broken, but this cannot go unpunished.

To most Americans, the leaker is irrelevant. Sorry. Lawyer here.