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The US Supreme Court has voted to strike down the landmark Roe v Wade decision. 

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According to POLITICO, an initial draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito and circulated inside the court has revealed that a majority of the justices have decided to overturn the Roe v Wade decision. After hearing oral arguments as far back as December of 2021, 5 of the most conservative and Republican-appointed justices (Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, and Samuel Alito) are in favor of striking down a woman’s right to choose what’s best for her body. The more liberal and Democratically-appointed justices (Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan) have remained in favor of maintaining Roe v Wade. Only the opinion of Chief Justice Roberts is unknown from the leaked draft.

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Justice Samuel Alito

Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” Alito wrote in what POLITICO is calling a full-throated, unflinching repudiation of the 1973 decision which guaranteed federal constitutional protections of abortion rights and a subsequent 1992 decision – Planned Parenthood v. Casey – that largely maintained the right.  The Roe v Wade “survey of history ranged from the constitutionally irrelevant to the plainly incorrect,” Alito continued, adding that its reasoning was “exceptionally weak” and that the original decision has had “damaging consequences.”

“The inescapable conclusion is that a right to abortion is not deeply rooted in the Nation’s history and traditions,” Alito wrote.

“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” Alito continued in the document, labeled as the ‘Opinion of the Court.’ “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”

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His skewering of Roe combined with the endorsement of at least 4 of his conservative colleagues is proof positive of the court’s rightward turn in recent decades. Interestingly, Roe was decided 7-2 in 1973, with 5 Republican appointees joining 2 justices nominated by Democratic presidents.

“The overturning of Roe would almost immediately lead to stricter limits on abortion access in large swaths of the South and Midwest, with about half of the states set to immediately impose broad abortion bans.”

– POLITICO

The leaked opinion of the court’s intention to overturn Roe v Wade is not yet formal or official. Deliberations involving controversial cases have been fluid in the past and justices can and sometimes do change their votes as draft opinions circulate. Additionally, major decisions can and do involve multiple drafts and vote-trading, sometimes until only days before a decision is unveiled. 

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Although the court’s decision will not be final until it is published (likely within the next 2 months), the opinion of the majority of the justices is clear. Individual states will hold the right to continue to offer abortion and planned parenthood services, however, the writing is on the wall for Roe v Wade. The conservative justices are hell-bent on ending it.

Elections have consequences!


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Wil

NPR: Roe v. Wade established a constitutional right to abortion in 1973. Although abortion rights looked to be in peril after arguments at the court late last year, it was unclear whether the justices would merely hollow out Roe or indeed strike it down. It now appears they have done the latter, though, as the Politico report itself noted, the leaked majority opinion was a draft that could still change. In the 98-page draft, Alito said Roe was wrongly decided, saying the issue should be decided by politicians, not courts. If Roe is reversed, it would not federally outlaw abortion. However, it would shift the power to states to decide on the procedure’s legality. Twenty-one states are poised to immediately ban or acutely curtail access to abortions if the Supreme Court chooses to overturn or weaken Roe v. Wade, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research group in favor of… Read more »

Wil

The Daily Beast I am approximately zero percent surprised by the draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, authored by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, that was leaked to Politico. Not only am I unsurprised – I predicted it several times in this publication. And not just me, of course, but everyone in my profession. Overturning Roe is in the Republican Party’s platform. It was the primary criterion that the Federalist Society, funded by religious extremists, used to pick Supreme Court justices for Donald Trump. Together with desegregation, it propelled the Religious Right to get into politics 50 years ago, and vote for Republicans ever since. So, yes, we all told you this was inevitable. And now it is here. But “you” – by which I mean the large majority of voters who say that women have a right to control their own bodies – didn’t listen. The Supreme Court ranked… Read more »

Truthiz1

[Not only am I unsurprised – I predicted it several times in this publication. And not just me, of course, but everyone in my profession. Overturning Roe is in the Republican Party’s platform. It was the primary criterion that the Federalist Society, funded by religious extremists, used to pick Supreme Court justices for Donald Trump. Together with desegregation, it propelled the Religious Right to get into politics 50 years ago, and vote for Republicans ever since.

So, yes, we all told you this was inevitable. And now it is here.

But “you” – by which I mean the large majority of voters who say that women have a right to control their own bodies – didn’t listen. The Supreme Court ranked at the bottom of Democrats’ concerns in 2016, while it was at the top of Republicans’.] – h/t Wil

And let the Church say AMEN!

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Truthiz1

Thank you DJ, I was hoping you’d be all over this, this morning!

Some readers may recall the weekend following Trump’s inauguration in Jan. 2017:

[Hundreds of thousands of women gathered in Washington on Saturday in a kind of counterinauguration after President Trump took office.” 

“A range of speakers and performers cutting across generational lines rallied near the Capitol before marchers made their way toward the White House. They were joined by crowds in cities across the country: In Chicago, the size of a rally so quickly outgrew early estimates that the march that was to follow was canceled for safety. In Manhattan, Fifth Avenue became a river of pink hats, while in downtown Los Angeles, even before the gathering crowd stretched itself out to march, it was more than a quarter mile deep on several streets.] – New York Times, Jan. 21, 2017

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Mr.BD

Yes Truth I remember the pink pussycat or pussy hat march they had on Trump.

Truthiz1

The protests grew to massive protests not just throughout America but around the world.

I remember DJ did a post about it. Everyone was covering the protests.

And in my response, I noted at the time that despite ALL of the women who had marched that weekend, and speeches made by a number of women “leaders” declaring this and declaring that, I expressed by skepticism that anything more would actual come of all that “sound and fury.” That sadly it would probably result in “signifying nothing.”

A female reader challenged my skepticism prompting me to respond in short – Time will tell.

Unfortunately, Time proved me right.

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Truthiz1

For years now I have watched women in America, of childbearing age (ALL races and ethnicities and socio-economic backgrounds) sit on their collective rear-ends doing NOTHING to fight to protect their right to choose what to do with their bodies. While the Repubs have never kept it a secret what they would do if ever they had the Power to do it.

And so now here we are. The mid-terms are upon us and Time is running out for a Woman’s Right to Choose. And WE (the majority of Americans) had better WAKE UP! Stripping women of their reproductive Rights is just the beginning.

Voting Rights and Gay Marriage are on the chopping block next!

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Mr.BD

If the Dems lose the midterms like everybody is already expecting we are screwed. The Repubs are ready to set us all back a hundred years as soon as they get in power the next time.

Truthiz1

Well BD if the majority of American voters still DON’T turn out and vote for Dems in the mid-terms and going forward…WE (as a nation and a people) will deserve the madness we’re going to get!

Truthiz1

Oh!…and Thank God for the person(s) who “leaked” this information to the news media and thus to the American people!

Now it is truly up to Us!

Mr.BD

My boss told me Chief Justice Roberts has got the FBI involved to find out who leaked the news. Apparently this is the first time something like this ever happen and it is supposedly illegal.

Truthiz1

Of course, I don’t believe in breaking the law.

However, in this case, if indeed the leak is an actual “crime” I am still thankful to the person(s) who did it!

Mr.BD

I wanted to get to this story earlier but I did not have my words together yet on what to say. This has me speechless but I am not surprised by it either. The christian right has been going after this for years. They got hold of the Repub party, made donations to the right people and got it taken care of. And like Truth said they are not going to stop here. They are coming after same sex marriage and all the moral things they do not agree with. If people were not awake before they better wake up now.

Tammy

Hypothetical question – or maybe not hypothetical question:  if men really care about women and want what’s best for us, why hasn’t a quick, reversible vasectomy been developed and promoted as a feasible, popular, cheap, readily accessible option for birth control?  Why is all the responsibility falling on the shoulders of women?

Truthiz1

Thank you Tammy!

And also there’s this Truth………….

The kind of men who want to tell women what to do with Our bodies….and the kind of men who want to force little girls and women who have suffered the trauma of rape or incest, to carry the unborn child of their predator….

Those men are NOT men. They are some sick and demented creatures motivated by a dark and tortured nature that is absolutely Evil.

Truthiz1

Thank you Tammy!

And also there’s this Truth………….

The kind of men who want to tell women what to do with Our bodies….and the kind of men who want to force little girls and women who have suffered the trauma of rape or incest, to carry the unborn child of their predator….

Those men are NOT men. They are some sick and demented creatures motivated by a dark and tortured nature that is absolutely Evil.

Truthiz1

And let me also add this……

If by some miracle the Dems hold onto their majority, in the senate WE (the majority of Dem and Dem-leaning Independent voters) need to start voting OUT any Dems who’ve been there waaay too long, in the very next election. WE need new blood. New people with new ideas and a positive vision for this country.

I just hope and pray it’s not too late!

The Dem party is almost as corrupt and as evil as the Republican party. They just commit different corrupt and evil deeds.

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[…] Top News Today :On Friday, conservatives from across the country jumped for joy over the news that the Supreme Court’s 5 conservative justices — Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett — have dismantled Roe v. Wade and canceled a woman’s right to choose what’s best for her own body. Ironically, the successful vote to ban all abortions in the US (even in cases of rape or incest) was made possible by the 3 justices Donald Trump was allowed to nominate, proving that elections do indeed have consequences. […]

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