Posted on 05/17/2019 12:34:12 AM PDT by Morgana
For two generations the Roe decision has distorted American politics. Now the states are fighting back.
We are witnessing the beginnings of an anti-abortion legislative revolution in Red America. Two generations of pro-life activism, persuasion, and argument have yielded pro-life supermajorities in state houses across much of the South and Midwest, and they recognize the fact that we have reached a moment of legal possibility we may never attain again — perhaps not for generations. It is possible (maybe not likely, but possible) that the Supreme Court could overrule Roe v. Wade, and these legislatures have chosen to go for broke.
Good. While Alabama governor Kay Ivey ponders whether to sign Alabama’s bill banning all abortion in the state, it’s worth considering why this represents an important moment in the battle for life in the United States, why Alabama’s bill (and Georgia’s new heartbeat law) present the right kind of legal and philosophical challenge to Roe, and why now is exactly the time to make the challenge.
Both Alabama’s abortion ban and Georgia’s heartbeat law contain a key provision — they declare the personhood of the unborn child. This is a vital measure that is aimed directly at a key portion of the Roe v. Wade opinion. Late last week, I had a lengthy phone conversation with state representative Ed Setzler, sponsor of Georgia’s legislation. He said his bill wasn’t “waving its fist at Roe; it’s answering Roe.”
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It’s all going to come down to Kavanaugh & Roberts. Will they dance with the ones who brung ‘em and discard the anti-constitutional Roe garbage once and for all? Or will they sell us out for 30 pieces of silver and the approval of the grandees at Harvard Law School and Washington polite society?
Thanks to AL, GA, and other conservative states, the Dumocomms now have something to REALLY get the vapors over
The march of this legislation to the Supreme Court will keep them fully distracted for quite some time!
PS has anyone done a welfare check on RBG lately???
I did. It was the first thing I thought of when I saw states bringing down the gauntlet on abortion. The movies “Gosnell” and “Unplanned” drew back the curtain to human barbarity. I am hoping the feverish abortion barbarians will take their case to the Supreme Court where the ill-written Roe vs Wade ruling will be rescinded.
RBG... think about the absurdity of the fact that the right of the duly elected legislators of Alabama, Georgia, etc. to regulate fetal homicide within their state lines depends, in part, on whether one gravely ill 86-year-old woman can, against all odds (thought probably with Satan’s help), can keep on ticking.
And the 14th Amendment prohibits deprivation of life, liberty or property without due process. Considering the rampant expansion of 14A rights by Scotus since 1973, it will be hard pressed to defend the taking of unborn life without embarrassing itself.
New York passed their law to make NY the number one state in the nation........abortions for all. As usual...it’s a money maker...just as gay marriage was passed....because it was also a money maker.
“New York passed their law to make NY the number one state in the nation........abortions for all. As usual...it’s a money maker...just as gay marriage was passed....because it was also a money maker.”
This was part of racist Margret Sangar’s eugenics scheme to decimate the black population.
Good news.
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