Posted on 02/19/2023 6:22:29 PM PST by marshmallow
Washington D.C., Feb 9, 2023 / 13:35 pm Despite the U.S. Supreme Court ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade, a federal judge is claiming that the 13th Amendment, which was ratified to abolish slavery, might establish a constitutional right to have an abortion.
Under Roe v. Wade, the court previously held that the 14th Amendment protects a right to privacy and a right to privacy protects a woman’s right to decide whether to have an abortion. In the Dobbs decision last June, the court revoked that precedent, stating that “the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion” and that “procuring an abortion is not a fundamental constitutional right because such a right has no basis in the Constitution’s text or in our nation’s history.”
Regardless, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly wrote in an order that the court was only addressing claims related to the 14th Amendment and did not evaluate the possibility that the right was protected elsewhere in the Constitution. The order was in relation to a criminal case against pro-life activists who are accused of impeding an abortion clinic’s operations.
“Here, the ‘issue’ before the court in Dobbs was not whether any provision of the Constitution provided a right to abortion,” Kollar-Kotelly wrote. “Rather, the question before the court in Dobbs was whether the 14th Amendment to the Constitution provided such a right.”
The judge further added that the court might have ruled differently if other constitutional questions were raised.
“Of those provisions that might contain some right to access to such services,” the order read, “the 13th Amendment has received substantial attention among scholars and, briefly, in one federal Court of Appeals decision.”
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The Constitution says nothing about abortion.
Supreme Court smackdown v2.0 incoming...
So, in other words, women are enslaved by their unborn babies? Is that what this black-robed dorkwad is saying?
Prepare to be disappointed.
“The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe and Casey are overruled; and the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives,” the court stated in a syllabus included with its lengthy Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision.
The decision said “The Constitution does not confer a right to an abortion”.
The decision did not just say that one particular amendment didn’t confer a right to an abortion but that maybe other amendments did as this article ludicrously claims.
Alito, bless him, was unambiguously clear.
That’s exactly what the Pharisees are saying.
The whores and baby choppers are going down swinging, aren’t they? Now this idiot thinks she can overrule the Supreme Court.
How about the Juneteenth Amendment?
What an utter farce. Slavery and abortion have no more connection than a mole rat and a Boeing 747.
Penumbras of Umbras?
Fantasy.
The 13th Amendment?
I’m just not seeing it.
I intentionally did not reply to the marshmallow,
because he, she, or it never replies to any post,
he, she, or it only posts articles with no comment.
The judge is a woman who received her B.A. and J.D. from the Catholic University of America, post VCII.
No surprise.
If pregnancy from voluntary intercourse is involuntary servitude, so is court-ordered child support.
The Thirteen Amendment also prohibits treating other human beings as property that can be disposed of at will. The abortion lobby considers unborn children to be the property of the egg-provider (formerly known as the mother) that can be disposed of at the will of the egg-provider.
Probably didn’t pass a lot of law courses, just played a minority card.
So anyone has the right to commit murder and it’s protected under the 14th Amendment’s privacy protections...got it.
[[The whores and baby choppers are going down swinging, aren’t they?]]
It is just mind blowing how viciously they are fighting to keep their ‘right’ to murder their unborn offspring- Truly demonic
Quite the contrary. If anything, Amendments 5 and 14 prohibit it.
Clueless and ridiculous for many reasons, not to mention the fact that the logic given for abortion on demand is quite similar to those used to justify slavery. "They aren't really human"
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