We’re not going to take your abortions away...
We just want common sense abortion laws and restrictions..
Sound familiar?
“Amorphous penumbras” - HAHA!! That’s great. :D
Good article. Not every good thing that DT tried to accomplish during his presidency has been undone.
I believe that Amy Coney Barrett is considered an expert on stare decisis. So far, I am not overly impressed by her. I wonder how she will see this current case?
what killed the Supreme Court as an American institution was wading in on the issue in the first place.
Until Roe it was properly in the hands of the states. If they want to blame someone, blame Blackmun, Brennan, Douglas, Stewart, Marshall, Burger and Powell.
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When I listened to Thomas’s cross-examination of the Solicitor General’s reliance on “Liberty” in the 14th Amendment, I was disappointed when he didn’t point out that the congressional record of the debates around what became the 14A is available for anyone to read.
There is zero reference of course to abortion.
Roe rests on the whims of seven lawyers in 1973 and nothing else.
... most significant of all are the facts that “have so changed...[since 1973 and] 1992.
... the idea that women need abortion to have personal or professional options no longer has even a... semblance of truth. The removal of the stigma of single motherhood, greater educational advances, family-centric workplaces, maternity and paternity leave, Family and Medical Leave Act leave, and remote working all counterclaims of Casey that women need abortion to plot out their lives.