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Posted on 10/06/2015 2:04:27 PM PDT by GIdget2004
Arkansas has asked the Supreme Court to revisit its long-standing ruling that a woman can terminate a pregnancy until the fetus is viable outside of the womb.
Arkansas on Tuesday asked the justices to overturn a lower court decision that found that the state’s ban on abortion at 12 weeks of pregnancy and when a heartbeat is detected is unconstitutional.
The court established the viability standard in the 1973 case Roe v. Wade and reaffirmed it in the 1992 case Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Arkansas argues that the viability rule is arbitrary, not written in the constitution, and is outdated.
Today, medical experts place viability at about 23 weeks.
“This case is an ideal vehicle for the Court to reevaluate the viability rule imposed in Roe and Casey and adopt a new standard governing the constitutionality of abortion regulations,” the state’s lawyers wrote in a petition filed on Tuesday.
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Not a snowball’s chance in Hell.
THIS Supreme Court? Ummmm, not gonna happen.
“THIS Supreme Court? Ummmm, not gonna happen.”
Why not? DADT and gay marriage changed “because of the times, why not this?”
Liberals can’t have it both ways.
A heartbeat is the measurable standard by which a condemned prisoner is rated as either alive or dead. I don’t see why the same standard can’t be used with regards to a baby.
For liberals, the march of history only goes in one direction. That's why they call themselves "progressives."
A part of the problem with Roe v. Wade is the following imo. The corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Senate has not been doing its job to protect the states as the Founding States had intended for it to do.
In the case of Roe v. Wade, not only are senators wrongly confirming activist justices to the bench, but when these justices wrongly legislate so-called rights from the bench, like the fictitious constitutional right to have have an abortion which the states have actually never amended the Constitution to expressly protect, corrupt senators then refuse to work with the House to impeach and remove such justices from the bench.
The ill-conceived 17th Amendment needs to disappear, and corrupt senators and the activist justices that they confirm along with it.
Agreed.
It won’t happen with this court, the next court, or the court after that. It simply isn’t going to happen. The scrotus is just as bought and paid for as the other two branches of government.
I don’t get why otherwise intelligent conservatives would expect any more virtuous behavior out of this bunch than they would out of, say, your average gang of street pimps.
“It’s a tax!” < /Roberts >
I don’t think we have the votes for it yet. We need at lest one more, likely two or more.
It’s good to keep trying, though.
Street Pimps for Justice!!!
Liberals shouldn’t be able to have it both ways of course, but when those same liberals control the Supreme Court, have it both ways they will.
If they overturn it they will make up for a lot.
I would trade same sex “marriage” for overturning Roe v Wade.
Good for Arkansas! Why don’t other states try this? (And quit the excuses, folks)
“Street Pimps for Justice!!!”
Come to think of it, street pimps are more likely to deliver. After all, they provide a valuable service for some members of the public. Unlike scrotus. And do it for far less money.
Huggy Bear for scrotus!
It is in fact the DUTY of govt TO protect Life (, Liberty and the Pursuit...).
Not only did CONGRESS abrogate its responsibility, the States did so as well; and ultimately, We the People allowed all 3.
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
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