Roe V Wade overturned!

I've read lots of dumb stuff today. Your post tops them all. Congratulations.

Yes, Black Lives Matter! Blacks are only 12% of the population but make up 40% of abortions. Save the black babies!!! Don’t let the Democrats kill anymore black babies! The democrats have been the party of racism for nearly 200 years. Their goal has always been to enslave and population control black people. They’re pure evil party!

Mendoo go to jail for non support of their offspring.

In some states they are even held accountable for child support when their names are on the Birth Certificate, even when the DNA points elsewhere.

It does make sense to the extent that the 9 SCOTUS judges are rendering a legal opinion, as opposed to a political or social one. Some judges do cross that line at times ("activist judges," with Alito certainly being one of them), but most don't. Roe v. Wade was always a very weak and legally flawed opinion. They only thing keeping it alive was stare decisis, which can only go so far.

I'd bet 90% of that 70/30 public opinion you refer to are people who have never read Roe, never read this "draft" that got leaked, and don't even know what language in the Constitution is being analyzed or even what the issue is. They probably don't even know the function of the SCOTUS in our system of government, which is how things like "It makes no sense for 9 people to go against that" even get said.

Funny how libbies all of a sudden are talking about "women" again--after claiming they cannot define one.

Welp, I guess we can see the political demographics of LetsRun.

This might come as a shock. But lots of Republicans, Conservatives and even Religious people have Abortions.

hard to believe but very true!

Because there is no registration process and people can post under many different names, they are free to amplify a few voices as if it were many.

"Women shouldn't be held accountable for their own choices."

The irony is that not only will this opinion not render abortions illegal, we may even see an uptick in the procedure due to draconian anti-choice laws in red states. But don’t let the religious right hear this. The legitimacy of the Court is done. It was fun while it lasted

But these are all things you do before you are pregnant. What if you actually are pregnant and don't want to be?

You should always control what happens in the space inside your body. There really is no such thing as privacy if the government can legislate for what happens there.

It's not official, but certainly looks like it soon will be.

The fact that Supreme Court Justices are political appointees and have lifetime posts shows how fractured American lawmaking is.

This is the fruits of decades of Republican skullduggery, not the new will of the people, or enlightened re-interpretation of women's rights. But appeasement to Bible Belters and last-century Conservative mores.

This is going to damage Republican chances at re-election. They will lose Republican voters and galvanize Democratic opposition. I would have though the Dems were Done, but I'm posting new odds... Harris in 2024 is now looking more possible than ever.

Abortion is optional.

Forced birth* is mandatory.

*this is a term someone used on this thread that reflects what Rs are really doing. After birth they could care less what happens to a child. Forcing women to birth children is the only part they care about.

Have you read the full text of the draft decision? No you haven’t.

I think it’s telling how often the rhetoric shifts to punishing women rather than saving lives. A major part of why the radicals religious right wants to ban abortion is because they think sex outside of marriage is some sort of degenerate immoral behavior.

Good post. This is the perfect enemy for the Dems to run against.

These are the people who will literally argue "she should have done more to avoid rape" rather than admit that sometimes an abortion might be justified under their broken moral framework.

In ever case, religious and republican men are working to control women. How about Rs passing laws requiring men to be castrated if they impregnate a women without her written permission given beforehand? That would stop a lot of unwanted pregnancies.

Fundamentalist Christians are often worried about how SCOTUS decisions will affect societal behavior. When Lawrence v. Texas (2003) invalidated Texas' ban on same sex consensual sex, Fundamentalists predicted that many Christians would abandon their marriages and turn gay. It turns out they were correct, as around 10% of Christian men (17% in the South) went gay in the months after the Lawrence case was decided. So these cases have real life impact and consequences, especially for Christians.