Posted on 06/25/2022 7:20:56 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
On Friday, when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision establishing a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion, the three Democratic appointees — Justices Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor — wrote a forthright response casting the majority’s decision as a blow to women’s civil rights.
“With sorrow — for this Court, but more, for the many millions of American women who have today lost a fundamental constitutional protection — we dissent,” they wrote.
“Today, the Court … says that from the very moment of fertilization, a woman has no rights to speak of,” they continued. “A State can force her to bring a pregnancy to term, even at the steepest personal and familial costs.”
Citing laws that have already been passed in more conservative states and would now take effect, they warned of dire consequences in states that will now be free to ban abortion without exceptions for rape or incest, or when bringing a pregnancy to term risks the mother’s health.
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If you are raped, they give you drugs in the ER to prevent pregnancy
IF the woman goes to the ER at all. Many women still won’t.
(And it would be an interesting sort of ‘Schrödinger’s cat’ situation to argue against legally. If you don’t know whether there is or would be a pregnancy at all, is the ER treatment legally an abortion?)
No. Every abortion kills a baby.
I’d still be interested in the argument - and I don’t doubt it will come up somewhere, sometime.
Nothing in the Constitution gives the feds the right to enforce the first ten amendments upon the states. The first ten amendments are pointed directly at the feds and nowhere else.
This is a huge power grab by the Totalitarian Left via the counterfeit and debunked “Incorporation Doctrine”. Judge Bork, the recognized leading constitutional scholar of his time who would have been maybe the best Supreme Justice ever, deals with this subject in his very worthwhile book, “The Tempting of America.”
May we on the Patriotic Right see through the lies that have been used to bring us to the brink of America’s extinction via the totalitarian federal government. As you mentioned, every lie perpetrated by these snakes has ALWAYS been a means of EXPANDING federal government power, never contracting their power. The Left and their corrupt government have never cared about limited Constitutional government. In fact act they HATE the Constitution and want it destroyed forever.
And if we Patriots don’t wake up and fight the good fight however we can, they will do just that
Even in the few cases where a pregnancy is caused by rape, what exactly is it the child did to be aborted? And why those poor excuses for justices think we should abort another 65 million babies over the next 50 years based on that poor example shows how illogical the three justi-morons are.
The guarantee by to the people of each state is that of a Republican form of government at the state level. As in, no oligarchy, cleptocracy, despotic tyranny ruling over them from the catbird seat of their state capital.
Abortion bans in Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah and Alabama went into immediate effect. The laws make performing an abortion a felony punishable by years-long prison sentences. They do not make exceptions for rape or incest. However, women cannot be prosecuted for receiving an abortion under the laws.
Idaho, Tennessee and Texas will implement abortion bans in 30 days, according to the text of the laws.
States banning abortion are also outlawing the use of the abortion pill to end pregnancies. However, women cannot be punished for receiving abortions under the laws, which means many people may turn to online pharmacies based abroad to have pills delivered to their homes.
Medication abortion has become increasingly common in the U.S. More than half of abortions in the U.S. are with the pill, according to a survey by the Guttmacher Institute of all known providers in the U.S.
In April, a woman in South Texas was charged with murder after allegedly having a self-induced abortion. The district attorney ultimately dismissed the indictment, saying it is clear that she “cannot and should not be prosecuted for the allegation against her.”
Most state laws banning or restricting abortion go after providers, not the pregnant woman. But that Texas case makes you wonder...
Are referring to abortifacient pharmaceutical agents?
Being that life begins at conception, a state could ban the sale or use of any such drugs.
Do you think that planned parenthood ever, ever inquires about the minors who come in to get abortions? Ever?
You got that part right.
In my opinion, restrictive state gun laws like the one that was struck down in New York need to be struck down on the basis of the Guarantee clause, the rationale beung that, in a state that has gone ahead and enacted such a law, the government of that state, having inverted the natural power structure (citizen on top, representative below) associated with a republic, is Constitutionally illegitimate.
“Well, that’s a flat out lie.”
Not at all. In Texas starting 28 days from now a woman who is raped would indeed have to bring to term that product of rape. Texas has a trigger law going into effect that makes it a felon from day one to give an abortion. So yes as a matter of law and fact in Texas once the trigger law is in effect that woman would have to carry to term. At least argue from a place of fact. The only exemption in Texas now is the life of the mother is at risk or there is a risk of serious organ damage such as with an epitopic pregnancy outside the uterus. That’s it no rape exemption no incest exemption nothing but those two. Like I said argue from point of facts and in Texas it is valid that a woman raped would be unable to abort that fetus from day one. She could of course travel two or three states away and get an abortion but then someone here in Texas could sue her personally under our last law also upheld by the USSC where private citizens can sue other private citizens who obtain,or participate in abortions regardless of the location it’s the person’s state residency that matters. Again argue from facts not emotions.
Lefties say: “Conservative are against abortion... but for the death penalty!”
I say:” Well, duh!”
Liars.
Go get the morning after pill—either through the hospital which hands it out with rape kit or just go into the pharmacy. no script needed.
No, I want them to bear their rapist’s child.
It makes more liberal heads explode, and that is my only real goal in life.
Some people here (not you) seem not only concerned with the laws of the states they live in and their ability to influence those, but they want to control other people, too.
That’s kind of scary to me. These seem like the kind of busybodies who would call in a ‘red flag’ just because they have a gripe with their neighbor.
You will always be able to get an abortion in CA and NY.
And many more.
So let's talk actions. Many companies have announced they will pay for trips to states that have legal abortions if their employees live in states where they aren't legal. On top of that, the MSM is clearly on the side of the abortionists. Are YOU going to boycott the companies and cancel your TV subscription to stop putting money in their coffers?
If you're already doing that then good. We need a lot more of this.
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