Posted on 03/16/2022 9:03:09 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
There is action being taken across the nation by Republicans on abortion laws ahead of the Supreme Court’s decision.
GOP lawmakers in Tennessee have introduced a bill that appears to be similar to Texas’ anti-abortion legislation.
“This bill is modeled directly after the legislation passed in Texas last year. Abortions, since that bill has been passed, have dropped 60 percent in Texas,” Rep. Rebecca Alexander said as she spoke to a House subcommittee. Alexander is the legislation’s sponsor.
Virginia’s Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares is calling for Roe v. Wade to be overturned by the Supreme Court.
In joining 21 other states in calling on the court to invalidate Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban and reaffirm the ruling in Roe, Virginia joined 21 other states in urging the court to strike down Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban.
Miyares wrote the justices a letter stating, “The [new] Attorney General has reconsidered Virginia’s position in this case. Virginia is now of the view that the Constitution is silent on the question of abortion, and that it is therefore up to the people in the several states to determine the legal status and regulatory treatment of abortion.”
According to Miyares, Virginia joins 19 Republican attorneys general and dozens of red-state governors in calling for states to regulate abortion laws.
“It is Virginia’s position that the court’s decisions in Roe and Casey were wrongly decided,” he stated, referencing the 1992 case in Planned Parenthood v Casey, in which the ruling barred states from prohibiting abortions before there is viability. “This court should restore judicial neutrality to the abortion debate by permitting the people of the several states to resolve these questions for themselves.”
Sen. Josh Hawley, a Republican from Missouri, argued last month that Roe v. Wade constitutes the greatest injustice of our lifetimes and that the Supreme Court should correct it.
Hawley stated in an interview with Breitbart that after Day One of oral arguments, Roe v. Wade was “very much in play.”
“It would mean the reaching of a landmark goal that I mean, frankly, I have to say just personally, that Roe is one of the reasons that the major reason that I went into politics, and I think that’s true for many, many other people. That’s one of the major reasons I was interested in the law. And this is the greatest injustice of our lifetimes.”
“I just have to say that someone who believes that that row is one of the worst decisions ever handed down by the Supreme Court, I think it would be a monumental moral landmark and reverse a great injustice.”
Mississippi legislation that would ban nearly all abortions after 15 weeks is currently being reviewed by the Supreme Court.
In the hearing, Justice Clarence Thomas posed a question that should have alarmed pro-abortion liberals.
”Does a mother have a right to ingest drugs and harm a pre-viable baby? Can the state bring child neglect charges against the mother?“ he inquired.
The lawyer for Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the organization that wants the law overturned, stated: “That’s not what this case is about, but a woman has a right to make choices about her body.”
There is a chance that Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh will decide the case.
It is possible that Roberts and Kavanaugh seek a “middle ground” in which they don’t support reversing Roe v Wade in its entirety:
Roberts suggested the court could look at Mississippi’s 15-week law as a new viability standard, rather than Roe and Casey, which is over 20 weeks. And Kavanaugh, meanwhile, has asked to confirm that Mississippi isn’t asking the court to outright prohibit abortion, a way to say it’s not overturning Roe while limiting access.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh asked a question that seems aimed at the arguments made by abortion-rights advocates that a decision overturning Roe v. Wade would be a step towards the Supreme Court eventually issuing a decision that would outlaw abortion nationwide.
Mississippi is arguing that the Constitution is silent or neutral on the abortion question. Kavanaugh asked Stewart to confirm, which he did.
Kavanaugh suggested that a majority of states – or at least many states – would maintain abortion access.
“The Constitution is neither pro-life nor pro-choice … and leaves the issue to the people to resolve in the democratic process,” Kavanaugh concluded.
Democrats are awakening to a significant problem for their party: winning state legislatures in light of the Supreme Court’s imminent decision on the abortion case.
The Republican Party holds both chambers of the state legislature and the governorship in 23 states, after more than a decade of heavy investment at the state level. Democratic control is only found in 14 of the states.
Among the most overlooked concerns of Democratic politics has been the functioning of state legislatures, where Republicans take on culture war issues such as abortion, transgenderism, and teaching critical race theory in schools. Democrats who organize at the state level feel a new sense of urgency as Roe v. Wade, a 1973 Supreme Court decision that guaranteed abortion rights until fetal viability, or about 23 weeks, approaches its end.
Of course, this comes at a time when the vast majority of Americans disapprove of Democrats in power and how they have run the country into the ground. As Republicans are set to sweep the midterm elections and retake at least the U.S. House, they may see their hold on state legislatures expand. Which would be a fantastic end to a crazy year.
The ending of abortion should be the form of a Constitutional amendment, the same way slavery was ended.
Killing children is a crime against humanity which crosses state lines.
I know this process is lengthy, but it can be done...if the GOP had the guts.
Either outlaw abortion or stop jailing single fathers for child support.
If it’s “My body my choice” it’s your job to care for whatever comes from your body.
I think that fathers should support their kids, but women can’t continue to have it both ways!
Unfortunately woman ARE having it both ways.
I know a fellow who is paying huge amounts in child support - got covid and was sick and hospitalized for two months - so he’s behind. Didn’t matter she took him to court - considered contempt of court she wants him to do 5 months in jail!
In joining 21 other states in calling on the court to invalidate Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban and reaffirm the ruling in Roe, Virginia joined 21 other states in urging the court to strike down Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban.
What a bizarre sentence.
Some guys are paying child support for other guy’s kids and the courts allow it.
If some guy is gone in the military when his wife gets knocked up, too bad he still has to pay because they are married.
There has never been any doubt that Justice Thomas would vote to repeal Roe V Wade. He is by far the most conservative and pro-life of them all. Alito and Gorsuch probably would too. The rest, I'm not so sure. They all seem too eager to prove they are "mainstream". Barrett seemed solid until confirmation, now she's a question mark.
Men just don’t do very well married and not it seems anymore. And no matter how fair and more than that they are, gals just want to take them over the coals.
Bttt
States get federal cash for this scheme, it was never about the children.
Clinton made this essentially welfare. The fathers rarely, if ever see their kids.
Unless a jury has found the father guilty of sexual abuse of his children, the amount he pays should be reduced by the amount of time she keeps the kids from him.
If she wants to be a single parent, she is choosing full responsibility for the children.
Ti know a few who live out of their cars, etc. They pay 18 years for a child they rarely see. The state gets 18 years of cash.
This should be stopped.
That’s crazy. They can’t get out of it with DNA tests?
Not in the instances I’ve seen...
Nope. They are just screwed.
Zero chance of that happening. Seriously, I have a better chance of beating Brady in the superbowl next year.
So you support a Convention of the States to propose amendments to the Constitution?
Roe only made it universally legal Up To 90 days. 15 weeks is 105 days.
Typical left wing goal post moving.
I’m just ticked the mothers of liberals didn’t abort them.
Want to shut one up? When they argue for abortion just respond “too bad your mom didn’t abort you”! Watch heads explode.
A sentence so nice they wrote it twice!
Disproportionately they did. Unfortunately the schools birth replacement libs.
Fathers have a natural right to protect their baby daughters and sons between conception and birth and that right must be legally protected.
Fathers have a natural right to protect their baby daughters and sons between conception and birth and that right must be legally protected.
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