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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Liberals are against the death penalty for the rapist, but want to kill the innocent baby.
They always use the rape excuse, but it only accounts for a very small number of abortions. Either way, it doesn’t matter, rape isn’t the baby’s fault.
Silly lady...Just go to a state that likes to kill babies in the womb.
Indeed. About time we start recognizing that the feds should be a SMALL group.
Let’s start getting rid of all these “departments”, too, along with their cabinet members.
>> Which parts are lies?
The stated assertion is a lie: “A woman will have to bear her rapist’s child”
Because alot of these “rapes” are some chick banging a dude who she regrets banging later. It’s only rape when she realizes that he’s not the guy she thought he was..
They really meant to say, “Now it becomes much more difficult for a black woman to get rid of her child, an unwanted child, a child that none of us want. A future career criminal that will end up in prison. But not before the offspring comes into my gated, guarded community and victimizes and terrorizes my fellow liberals. We were halfway there to exterminating the black race - halfway to success! And then those nitwits on the other side said that this federal right does not exist. Oh, woe is us!”
Highly unlikely.
In a related question, why aren’t all these rapist and incest predators being charged with crimes? Either there aren’t as many as claimed or they are being protected via abortion.
“.. abortions will still occur...”
Still with the passive voice!
No, SCOTUS said it is not for the feds to decide but the state where she lives..
RGB? Is that you? /s
Creepy Uncle Joe has made the US the sex trafficking capital of the world.
Biden Family Anthem
I’m my own grandpa
I’m my own grandpa
It sounds funny I know
But it really is so
I’m my own grandpa
Now, if my wife is my grandmother
Then, I am her grandchild
And every time I think of it
It nearly drives me wild
For now I have become
The strangest case you ever saw
As the husband of my grandmother
I am my own grandpa
I’m my own grandpa
I fear that what you say is correct.
If she had been allowed to carry a gun, maybe she wouldn’t have been raped!
A couple of things in accord with what you are saying (earlier posts)...
1) law schools long ago stopped teaching the Constitution as written and originally understood and intended. The principle of incorporation has been tried and found wanting (see “The Slaughterhouse Cases”).
Something as badly written (intentionally) and ambiguous as the 14th Amendment requires one to look to the intention of the RATIFIERS (not the authors). When a portion of the Constitution is as ambiguous and confusing as the 14A, the intention of the ratifiers - those that turned the proposed amendment into law - is mandatory authority for interpreting and applying the 14A.
The key is this: if the ratifiers intended to give the federal government such new, greatly expanded and sweeping powers they never had before, there would have been some record of a debate about this in Congress. But no record of any such debate exists. The fact is, the ratifiers simply treated the 14A for what it was or should have been - a Post-Civil-War Reconstruction Amendment meant to put blacks on an equal footing as whites as citizens. NOTHING MORE.
Forget about the counterfeit “Incorporation Doctrine”. It has been another sneaky Leftist way of unconstitutionally expanding federal power.
2) What many don’t understand is the Constitution does not dispense rights. The Declaration of Independence, the foundation of the Constitution, declares that our rights and freedoms don’t come from man or his government but from God. That’s why faith is an essential factor in gaining and maintain freedom.
The Declaration of Independence, the first foundational document of our country, declares that man not government is created with unalienable rights and freedoms. That key presumption of the Constitution is why ONLY the Constitution ratified by the states and the people DELEGATE AND AUTHORIZE certain limited and enumerated powers to the government. If it’s not in the Constitution, it is not a federal power.
The states and the people are another matter. As the 9th and 10th Amendments explain, if it’s not in the Constitution it IS a state’s power. State’s rights and sovereignty is no “niggling detail.” It is the bedrock and backbone of our Free Constitutional Republic.
State are considered to be local government ruled by the people of that state. It is up to the people of each state to exercise their freedoms for state governance according to their will although one constitutional requirement is a state must have a “republican [representative] form of government”. The assumption also is that if somebody doesn’t like what a state has done, they can move to another state. But with a rogue federal government, there’s nowhere else to go.
And contrary to the popular misunderstanding put there gleefully by those those love government coercion, the first 10 amendments are NOT a bill of rights, again, as explained by the 9th and 10th Amendments. (Remember dictatorships like Russia have long lists of “bills of rights” presumed to be dispensed by a benevolent government that can just as easily be withdrawn by a not-so-benevolent government.) That is what makes America a truly exception country.
Freedom isn’t prefect and doesn’t always come out the way we want, but it is way ahead of whatever’s in second place.
Every state now has the ability to make common-sense laws regarding abortion.
These laws will be passed by people elected by the people and will thus express the will of the people in those states.
If the left wants abortion to be protected in the constitution, or gay marriage, or to eliminate guns. There is a process to do that called a constitutional amendment.
fwdude is advancing a very important point.
How certain are you that a sizeable fraction of surgical abortions (to say nothing if the use of pharmaceutical abortifacients), if not possibly a majority of same, are not forced upon the woman in question by the man in question, or by the friends, allies or family of same?
Planned Parenthood should have reported the cases of incest and statutory rape, when they became aware of them.
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