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Liberal Yale Professor: Yes, Roe Was Bad Law and the Alito Draft Is Constitutionally Sound
Townhall ^ | 05/16/2022 | Guy Benson

Posted on 05/16/2022 9:15:19 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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There's no gender gap on abortion as a constitutional right or a 15-week ban

See here:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/theres-no-gender-gap-on-abortion-as-a-constitutional-right-or-a-15-week-ban

“A woman’s right to have an abortion is established by the Constitution”

Men: 34% Women:35%

Federal courts should decide legality of abortion:

Men: 13%. Women: 8%

15-week ban:

Men: 63% Women: 65%

1 posted on 05/16/2022 9:15:19 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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“She was, without question, a strong opponent of legalized abortion — but believed that Roe itself was “too sweeping and vulnerable to attacks,” as a New York Times piece put it last year.”

I am not following this writers thinking.


2 posted on 05/16/2022 9:17:45 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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3 posted on 05/16/2022 9:18:50 AM PDT by mylife (It looks just like a telefunken U47... (===)
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To: jeffersondem

I’m thinking he meant “proponent”.


4 posted on 05/16/2022 9:20:01 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: jeffersondem

I think the editor was asleep should not ‘proponent’ be substituted for ‘opponent’ in that sentence?


5 posted on 05/16/2022 9:21:37 AM PDT by Reily
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To: SeekAndFind

I read Roe some thirty years ago. It is pure nonsense. Social justice in the smoke of judicial reasoning.

Our system took fifty years to come to the Dobbs conclusion, one which anyone with average reading comprehension could figure out on his own.

Thank the 17th Amendment for Roe.


6 posted on 05/16/2022 9:22:47 AM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: SeekAndFind

The student body at Yale Law will demand his immediate dismissal, to be followed by disembowelment, drawing, and quartering.


7 posted on 05/16/2022 9:24:07 AM PDT by markomalley (Directive 10-289 is in force)
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To: jeffersondem

They needed an editor to recognize the word should’ve been proponent, not opponent.


8 posted on 05/16/2022 9:27:02 AM PDT by newzjunkey (“We Did It Joe!” -The Taliban / “Thanks Joe!” -Putin)
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To: SeekAndFind

Back in the late 80s/early 90s, when Roe v Wade’s majority was fairly secure at 6-3 or even 7-2, it wasn’t too uncommon to find “honest” liberal lawyers who supported abortion (to varying extents) who would admit that Roe v Wade was bad case law.

It should’ve happened through legislation, and the court cases should’ve stuck to the law in question without overreaching.

But with W’s election and the possibility of more conservative justices, all such talk stopped.


9 posted on 05/16/2022 9:41:32 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either)
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Well sure, but only if you look at it legally based on the Constitution. Sheesh.


10 posted on 05/16/2022 9:51:36 AM PDT by Jolla
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To: Sans-Culotte

I’m thinking he meant “proponent”.


Yup, he did. The poor state of editing these daze is embarrassing.


11 posted on 05/16/2022 9:51:42 AM PDT by rbg81
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He must have meant to say RGB was a strong proponent of abortion. Justice Alito even cites her several times in his draft, pointing out that even a pro-abort -- if honest -- has to admit Roe v. Wade is bad law, i.e., unconstitutional.
12 posted on 05/16/2022 10:02:45 AM PDT by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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Headline is moronic.

You’re on a roll, troll.


13 posted on 05/16/2022 10:04:32 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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Roe v. Wade (Roe) was a scandalous, “perfect crime” decision imo, the Constitution silent about abortion.

Morally bankrupt Democrats and RINOs ultimately used Roe to grab power by exploiting post-17th Amendment ratification, constitutionally low-information voters imo.

More specifically, in stark contrast to the protection that the 2nd Amendment has famously provided for pro-gun citizens for example, Democrats and RINOs have had to fight “tooth and nail” to maintain a majority of pro-abortion activist Supreme Court justices in order to keep the phony “constitutional right” to abortion alive.

Corrections, Insights welcome.

Next, patriots are reminded that they must vote twice this election year. Your first vote is to primary career RINO incumbents. Your second vote is to replace outgoing Democrats and RINOs with Trump-endorsed candidates.

Again, insights welcome.


14 posted on 05/16/2022 10:18:11 AM PDT by Amendment10
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"She was, without question, a strong opponent of legalized abortion."

Huh?🤔

15 posted on 05/16/2022 10:53:22 AM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Interesting


16 posted on 05/16/2022 12:36:49 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Ballots)
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To: SeekAndFind

The 10th Amendment says that since Abortion was not mentioned in the Constitution, regulation of it belongs to the states or to the people. The 11th Amendment says one state shall not sue another state for equity in the law. Harry Blackmun said since New York had free access to abortion and one other state had partially free access, the other states had to go along.

Given these two Amendments to the Constitution, Roe vs Wade should never have been agreed to. It is unconstitutional!!!


17 posted on 05/16/2022 2:17:44 PM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent
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lacks solid grounding in the Constitution itself
So much for the Constitution.
18 posted on 05/16/2022 2:31:32 PM PDT by nicollo
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To: logi_cal869

RE: Headline is moronic.

Can you explain why?

RE: You’re on a roll, troll.

In what way?


19 posted on 05/16/2022 2:38:57 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

SCOTUS does not make law, among prolific idiocies in the article.

On the other, I’m not rehashing your BS post from yesterday.

Figure it out and take off your sphincter hat.

Or don’t. IDGAF.


20 posted on 05/16/2022 3:28:47 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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