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Roe v. Wade on the verge of being overturned?

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Roe v. Wade on the verge of being overturned?

Post by bmw » Mon May 02, 2022 10:26 pm

Politico says it is.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/0 ... n-00029473
The Supreme Court has voted to strike down the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, according to an initial draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito circulated inside the court and obtained by POLITICO.

The draft opinion is a full-throated, unflinching repudiation of the 1973 decision which guaranteed federal constitutional protections of abortion rights and a subsequent 1992 decision – Planned Parenthood v. Casey – that largely maintained the right. “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” Alito writes.

“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” he writes in the document, labeled as the “Opinion of the Court.” “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”
This speculation alone should make for some entertaining news over the next few days.



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Re: Roe v. Wade on the verge of being overturned?

Post by Honeyman » Mon May 02, 2022 10:36 pm

This will not help Republicans in November.


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Re: Roe v. Wade on the verge of being overturned?

Post by bmw » Mon May 02, 2022 10:43 pm

I'm not ready to predict how this plays out politically if this indeed happens. The population is split very nearly evenly on this issue (anywhere from 50-46 favoring pro-choice to 48-48 tie depending on the poll), and my guess is that abortion will remain legal in most states. The few states that move to ban it or severely limit it is where the politics could hurt Republicans, but if that ends up being in states that are heavily Republican anyways, will that really matter?



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Re: Roe v. Wade on the verge of being overturned?

Post by Honeyman » Mon May 02, 2022 10:50 pm

Okay, do your numbers and get back to us and maybe they will be as accurate as your "2000 people tops will die of Covid" prediction.

This is the one thing that could save the idiot Democrats from their selves.


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Re: Roe v. Wade on the verge of being overturned?

Post by Matt » Mon May 02, 2022 10:52 pm

Has a draft ever been leaked before on such a major decision? It seems a little suspect for it to happen in this specific case. If true, it's hard to predict if there will be real political fallout, with real economic struggles going on.


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Re: Roe v. Wade on the verge of being overturned?

Post by bmw » Mon May 02, 2022 11:02 pm

How many people even have access to such a draft? I can't be very many at all beyond the 9 Justices.



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Re: Roe v. Wade on the verge of being overturned?

Post by Bryce » Mon May 02, 2022 11:09 pm

bmw wrote:
Mon May 02, 2022 11:02 pm
How many people even have access to such a draft? I can't be very many at all beyond the 9 Justices.
Each justice has at least three clerks and each of those clerks have some staff.


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Post by Matt » Mon May 02, 2022 11:16 pm

The clerks do the actual writing. This is an unprecedented, apparently intentional, breach.


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Re: Roe v. Wade on the verge of being overturned?

Post by Bryce » Mon May 02, 2022 11:28 pm

Matt wrote:
Mon May 02, 2022 11:16 pm
The clerks do the actual writing. This is an unprecedented, apparently intentional, breach.
I'd place odds on staff of a certain two justices.


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Re: Roe v. Wade on the verge of being overturned?

Post by Bryce » Mon May 02, 2022 11:32 pm

bmw wrote:
Mon May 02, 2022 10:26 pm
This speculation alone should make for some entertaining news over the next few days.
How much you wanna bet that many of the outlets will say if Roe is overturned it will be a ban on abortions, when in fact it is no such thing. It would just return the rights to the individual states. Where, it should be.


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Re: Roe v. Wade on the verge of being overturned?

Post by bmw » Mon May 02, 2022 11:48 pm

Bryce wrote:
Mon May 02, 2022 11:32 pm
bmw wrote:
Mon May 02, 2022 10:26 pm
This speculation alone should make for some entertaining news over the next few days.
How much you wanna bet that many of the outlets will say if Roe is overturned it will be a ban on abortions, when in fact it is no such thing. It would just return the rights to the individual states. Where, it should be.
I can guarantee you that the picture that will be painted is one of an epidemic of back-alley abortions.

As an aside, marijuana is illegal at the federal level, yet many states allow its use, possession, and even sale. Since when did something being banned at the federal level matter anyways?



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Re: Roe v. Wade on the verge of being overturned?

Post by Deleted User 9015 » Tue May 03, 2022 12:03 am

The GOP is gonna need to stock up on duct tape.

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Re: Roe v. Wade on the verge of being overturned?

Post by MotorCityRadioFreak » Tue May 03, 2022 1:55 am

bmw wrote:
Mon May 02, 2022 10:43 pm
I'm not ready to predict how this plays out politically if this indeed happens. The population is split very nearly evenly on this issue (anywhere from 50-46 favoring pro-choice to 48-48 tie depending on the poll), and my guess is that abortion will remain legal in most states. The few states that move to ban it or severely limit it is where the politics could hurt Republicans, but if that ends up being in states that are heavily Republican anyways, will that really matter?
Those numbers are from 2000.


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Re: Roe v. Wade on the verge of being overturned?

Post by Ben Zonia » Tue May 03, 2022 3:17 am

The person who leaked this should be severely punished. It was leaked for purely political purposes, for unclear political ends unrelated to the issue at hand.


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Re: Roe v. Wade on the verge of being overturned?

Post by Matt » Tue May 03, 2022 6:05 am

At least this alleged decision has reminded the left that the people that can give birth are women and not "birthing people." 🤷

Also, "my body, my choice" makes a return after being on hiatus since March, 2020.


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