Posted on 07/11/2018 7:40:47 PM PDT by Morgana
With the talk of pro-life U.S. Supreme Court nominees and Roe v. Wade potentially being overturned, it is important to actually know what the landmark abortion case is about.
And there are strong indications that many do not.
A Democratic pollster recently pointed out that most millennials do not know what Roe v. Wade is about, or when abortion was legalized.
Millennials think that Roe v. Wade happened right after the American Revolution, Celinda Lake, president of Lake Research, said on a Friday episode of What Americas Thinking, a show on Hill.TV about polls and public opinion.
Furthermore, a 2013 study by the Pew Research Center found that 57 percent of polled adults aged 18 to 29 did not know that the 1973 case dealt with abortion. Despite their lack of knowledge regarding this seemingly important right, it appears some millennials still fight for this ruling despite not knowing what it did.
When Roe v. Wade was handed down, many abortion supporters stated that abortion would be safe, legal, and rare. That has proved itself to not be the case. Even some abortion advocates say the poorly-written case has no constitutional basis, and its loose language has opened the door to widespread abortions.
Because of Roe and its companion case, Doe v. Bolton, the United States is one of only seven countries in the world that permits elective abortions past 20 weeks a fact confirmed by the Washington Post fact checker.
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Roe v. Wade opened the doors to 60 million abortions in America. The case, along with Doe v. Bolton, forced states to allow abortions for almost any reason up to birth. The two decisions took away states power to regulate abortions and protect unborn babies. More recent Supreme Court rulings have allowed for modest abortion regulations and restrictions, but abortions remain widely unregulated in the first and second trimester of pregnancy.
Regardless of what many younger voters may or may not know about Americas abortion laws, many citizens still want to see change. A Gallup poll found that more than half of Americans want all or most abortions to be made illegal. A Knights of Columbus poll from January found that 76 percent of Americans support significant abortion restrictions.
In light of todays Supreme Court nomination, it is important that citizens follow the news and see who the presidents pick is for the court. And people who are worried about the future of their own freedoms and rights should first understand where the so-called right to abort an unborn baby came from and how truly radical that court ruling was.
Ignorant and illiterate. No wonder they favor socialism.
It is going to take a miracle for society to survive until we can raise and educate a generation properly......if we can even do that, which I have serious doubts about.
Isnt Roe V Wade based on the 14th Amendment? I looked it up and, for the life of me, I can it find any mention of abortion!
“Not to worry.
Facebook will tell them what to think.”
Oh no Ben! Facebook for old fogies like you and me!
Snapchat, pinterest is what they use. That will tell them what the next challenge is and they will do it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIpREvWtl70
What are the numbers for Casey V. Planned Parenthood (the actual precedent that the Supreme Court would likely be weighing in future cases)?
Roe v. Wade, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on January 22, 1973, ruled (72) that unduly restrictive state regulation of abortion is unconstitutional. In a majority opinion written by Justice Harry A. Blackmun, the court held that a set of Texas statutes criminalizing abortion in most instances violated a womans constitutional right of privacy, which it found to be implicit in the liberty guarantee of the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment ( nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law).
The case began in 1970 when Jane Roea fictional name used to protect the identity of the plaintiff, Norma McCorveyinstituted federal action against Henry Wade, the district attorney of Dallas county, Texas, where Roe resided. The Supreme Court disagreed with Roes assertion of an absolute right to terminate pregnancy in any way and at any time and attempted to balance a womans right of privacy with a states interest in regulating abortion. In his opinion, Blackmun noted that only a compelling state interest justifies regulations limiting fundamental rights such as privacy and that legislators must therefore draw statutes narrowly to express only the legitimate state interests at stake. The court then attempted to balance the states distinct compelling interests in the health of pregnant women and in the potential life of fetuses. It placed the point after which a states compelling interest in the pregnant womans health would allow it to regulate abortion at approximately the end of the first trimester of pregnancy. With regard to the fetus, the court located that point at capability of meaningful life outside the mothers womb, or viability.
Repeated challenges since 1973 narrowed the scope of Roe v. Wade but did not overturn it. In Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey (1992), the Supreme Court established that restrictions on abortion are unconstitutional if they place an undue burden on a woman seeking an abortion before the fetus is viable. In Gonzales v. Carhart (2007), the court upheld the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act (2003), which prohibited a rarely used abortion procedure known as intact dilation and evacuation. In Whole Womans Health v. Hellerstedt (2016), the court invoked its decision in Casey to strike down two provisions of a Texas law that had required abortion clinics to meet the standards of ambulatory surgical centres and abortion doctors to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.
In 1998, having undergone two religious conversions, McCorvey publicly declared her opposition to abortion.
https://www.britannica.com/event/Roe-v-Wade
Supposedly the dumbest 10% of eligible voters that somehow manage to vote decide all elections based on who can sway them that political cycle. They are called swing voters. All political ads are for those that can be motivated to turnout or stay home or who aren’t guided by a rational political philosophy.
Freegards
Just don’t let them think that it will ban hookups. Then they will really get off the couch.
It’s not. It’s about substantive due process.
These idiots think that “Roe vs Wade” concerned boat races in shallow water.
Simple test, going forward for any and all elections and being granted the privilege to vote ....
1. You own property and pay property taxes
If you don’t pay property taxes, then you have to meet 3 criteria2 tests you have to pass, at say, 90%(all other prohibitions to voting apply
2. You must be a citizen ... No other way around it. No Green Card holder, Permanent Resident, nothing
3. You have been in the workforce for at least 10 years, have filed all your taxes
4. Can pass a very simple test on on the history of this country, how the government functions, the 3 branches of government and what they are supposed to do, how laws are made, who is responsible for tax laws - both income and property - and where the money goes to and what it funds ... I guess, basically the, Naturalization Test. Hell they can’t argue it’s discriminatory since the give to LEGAL Immigrants wanting to become citizens..
5. Have to be able to identify, being shown photos: President, Vice President, Speaker of the House, their US State’s Senators, their rep for the US House and their state’s Governor.
And voter rolls, on every level, will be purged of dead folks, etc and VoterID is the law of the land.
If ou really want to stump someone about Roe v. Wade, ask them what the woman’s actual name was that the suit was brought for. (The answer is Norma McCorvey.)
Roe V Wade is a fraud based on a lie.
It’s possible that 5-percent of society would say that Roe V. Wade is a rapper out of Detroit, and Roe is short for Roderyn.
I think you could even show the pictures of Elvis and Frank Sinatra, and 10-percent of society would confuse the two.
Ill bet that most of them could be stumped by asking them to show which is the outside of a sock.
ROTFLMAO !!! Perfect
Ping!
The Kardashian Generation.
Cute ... but get that apostrophe out of the plural.
63% responded “Part of the undercard at the last UFC pay-per-view event”.
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