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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If this opinion stands, I’m looking forward to Robert’s dissent. It better be good. And then we need to expand the court.  Alito’s opinion is the most radical I’ve read.[/quote]

This is the most favorable it will be for a while for democrats. They haven't expanded the court and they will do nothing in response to this ruling other than bloviate [/quote]
What would you suggest Democrats do instead at this point?[/quote]

There is no right to an abortion in the U.S. Constitution.  Assuming this is simply "women's health" per se, all health laws are matters of state law.  Hence, each state has its own abortion law.  What do democrats do?  Work within our democratic process to get state abortion laws you want.  Just like was done very recently in NY, attempted in VA.  You vote, and you lobby to get the state laws you want.  If you don't like your state, you move.[/quote]

There was no right to abortion because every state/colony allowed it at the time so there was no need.  Any abortion restriction would have been completely unenforceable anyway, since you have to violate so many rights to privacy to prove that it happened.  Abortion has always been around.  The Roe vs Wade made the choice that it was better to codify it as legal rather than have millions of women doing it illegally and possibly dieing or being harmed.  That’s where the equal protection clause in the 14th amendment applied since men faced no such restriction.[/quote]

How is enforceable now in reality?   The motivation to not continue with an unwanted pregnancy is very strong with very good reason.  It just goes underground again.  So backwards and ridiculous to revisit the right to safe and legal abortions.[/quote]
The right to safe, legal abortions will be lost. No law can completely ban something...people will always break the law and do it anyway. But criminalizing a life-saving medical procedure is simply barbaric.[/quote]

It really is, and dooms many children to lose their mothers to the last baby.[/quote]

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