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SUPREME COURT OVERTURNS ROE v. WADE
The Supreme Court of the United States has overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, ending a 49-year-long interpretation that abortion is a constitutional right. Now individual states have the power to allow, limit, or ban the practice altogether.
“We end this opinion where we began,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the 6-3 opinion (PDF). “Abortion presents a profound moral question. The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion. Roe and Casey arrogated that authority. We now overrule those decisions and return that authority to the people and their elected representatives.”
The case decided today was Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which focused on a Mississippi law banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The state asked the Supreme Court to strike down a lower court ruling that stopped the legislation from taking effect.
Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett joined Alito’s opinion. Chief Justice John Roberts agreed with the result but filed a separate opinion. Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan filed a joint dissent.
In addition to ending Roe (1973), today’s decision also overturned Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992), which re-affirmed abortion as a constitutional right.
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Let the great sorting commence.
That assumes Blacks and Hispanics will remain perpetual wards of the Democrat Party. There has been significant slippage by both groups. In South Texas the Hispanics seem to be beginning the same type of political shift from Democrat to Republican that I witnessed in then sapphire-blue East Texas in the 1990s. If so, the Republicans benefit from banning abortion.
They will ramrod a bill through the House before November and the Senate will nuke the filibuster to pass it. The puppet master will make sure Biden signs it. Then what?
I believe that, too. In the Bible, God often chose imperfect people.
And I will refer to them as the evil states among us.
Wasn’t always that way, and whites are following the same path.
I’ve said on a number of occasions this is a center left country and has been at least since 2000. However, if the Hispanics can come over to the right (say 40% Republican), then I think this country can be a center right country again. I’m not willing to compromise my principles, that wouldn’t be a center-right country, but we need to focus on them to persuade them to come over.
What does “center-right” look like? Is that the ol’ “fiscally conservative, socially liberal” thing again? Because I don’t want any of that mush.
Not always. Just when necessary to fool the anti-abortionists.
He at least knew how to get in touch with the Rent-a-Spine people. Which is something.
Do they control for things like income when they compare?
From the NYT:
I think you have this backwards.
Legalized abortion serves the purposes of those who believe that black babies are more disposable than white babies, and that girl babies are more disposable than boy babies.
This is an example of what the Left condemns as “disparate impact”.
Dave may be on to something.
Given the high level of violence in the inner city — high level of male violence, that is — women will often not have the realistic option of saying no to sex, or even insisting on a condom. They’re just glad to get away without serious injury, and “take care” of the unwanted pregnancy later.
Furthermore, as Edward Banfield wrote many years ago in The Unheavenly City, the inner city is plagued by lack of foresight; so we can expect a higher level of failure to use contraception, or use it properly.
Good point. The statistics I’ve seen did not control for things like income.
A winning coalition would more likely be the reverse: socially conservative with tons of government spending.
That was the biggest lie told in the run up to the repeal of the 8th amendment in Ireland. Even though the wording explicitly stated this, the pro abortions persistently pushed this lie that a woman would be denied life saving treatment if she was pregnant. So many people fell for it, ones you’d never expect
No. But a good question. Requires some thought and lengthy answer.
People need a moral cover to implement and legalize sin. Then in time the sin “becomes” normal. That’s when they get outraged that a “right” will be taken away if ever challenged.
Yeah, I thought it might make a good feedpost. Is Ricochet still calling itself “center-right”? And how does that differ from the plain ol’ “right”? What marks it as “center”? And is “center” really where we want to be? I don’t think I do. Every time I see “center-right” I hear “squishy, malleable principles.”
Squishy or malleable?
Like Play-Doh.
Center-right of the country just means the over all average of the country would lean to the right. No I want full tilt to the right, but there are those that would offset my tilt.
I have never understood why she gets the coverage she does. What she just said there is outright dumb. Returning it to the states is to leave it to the voters. Mandating it from the Supreme Court is taking it out of the hands of the voters. What a dope.
Right. When does a baby get to “choose” what to do with its body? When it reaches puberty and is able to reproduce?
It’s got to mean more than that when people and institutions and media outlets describe themselves as “center-right.” A person by himself is a datapoint not an average.
“I say it’s squishy and I say to hell with it.”
Oh for heaven’s sake. 🙄🙄🙄
Aren’t these people ever embarrassed to talk like this?
Pride goeth before destruction. [link]
So they Secretary of Health and Human Services has never read the Constitution. Why is this not a surprise?