Stephan: If this story is correct, as most seem to think is the case, the 26 Red states are about to revert to the world of 50 years ago, before Roe vs Wade and Casey. These states, all of which already have poor social outcome data compared with the Blue states will, by law, render women unable to control their own bodies. In essence, all females (and I use female not woman) in those states become second-class citizens. I do this because I want you to note particularly that there is no exception for female children made pregnant by rape or incest. Imagine you are a 12-year-old girl, made pregnant by your father, brother, or uncle, and condemned to carry the child of this rape or incest to delivery. Do you think that might warp the entirety of that child's life?
Think about this, five or six unelected individuals are going to determine the status of tens of million of people, all the females in states controlled by Republicans. It also guarantees that the United States, which already has the worst maternal mortality data in the developed world will, by this judicial decision, assure that deaths by women during pregnancy will significantly increase.
This decision will also guarantee an increase in the Great Schism Trend, because very predictably the Blue states will continue to treat females as equal to males and, I predict, you will see an internal migration of women moving from Red states to Blue States, further exacerbating the decline of the Red States. I also predict you will see the Republican controlled states increase authoritarian control over all females. They will pass laws against ordering drugs by mail, or traveling to a nearby Blue state, and increase laws that any person who helps or even talks with a child or adult female to be vulnerable to persecution.
And be very clear that while almost two-thirds of Americans do not want to see Roe overturned, all of this is happening because one party, the Republican Party, has worked for decades to make male dominance the law of America. Anyone who votes Republican in any election is complicit.
One final prediction: If the Republicans take control of the House and Senate in the November election I predict there will be massive pressure for the Republicans to pass legislation making abortion a federal crime, overriding whatever the Blue states do to assure a female's rights.
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.”
Deliberations on controversial cases have in the past been fluid. Justices can and sometimes do change their votes as draft opinions circulate and major decisions can be subject to multiple drafts and vote-trading, sometimes until just days before a decision is unveiled. The court’s holding will not be final […]
John B Alexander
on Tuesday, May 3, 2022 at 9:15 am
Little doubt that America is in retrograde. There should be an investigation of how all Trump nominees to SCOTUS lied to the Senate about this issue yet still were confirmed
Little doubt that America is in retrograde. There should be an investigation of how all Trump nominees to SCOTUS lied to the Senate about this issue yet still were confirmed