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(The Guardian) Supreme court overturns Roe v Wade
The supreme court has overturned Roe v Wade, ending nearly a half-century of abortion rights in the United States.
The decision split along ideological lines, with the six conservative justices voting for it and the three liberals dissenting.
With the supreme court’s ruling overturning Roe v Wade, conservatives have struck a major blow against abortion access in the United States. The Guardian’s Jessica Glenza breaks down what it means: The supreme court has ruled there is no constitutional right to abortion in the United States, upending a precedent set nearly 50 years ago in the landmark Roe v Wade case – a rare reversal of long-settled law that will fracture the foundations of modern reproductive rights in America.
The court’s ruling came in the pivotal case Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization, in which the last abortion clinic in Mississippi opposed the state’s efforts to ban abortion after 15 weeks and overturn Roe in the process.
The reversal of the 1973 opinion will again allow individual US states to ban abortion. At least 26 states are expected to do so immediately or as soon as practicable.
www.theguardian.com
The supreme court has overturned Roe v Wade, ending nearly a half-century of abortion rights in the United States.
The decision split along ideological lines, with the six conservative justices voting for it and the three liberals dissenting.
With the supreme court’s ruling overturning Roe v Wade, conservatives have struck a major blow against abortion access in the United States. The Guardian’s Jessica Glenza breaks down what it means: The supreme court has ruled there is no constitutional right to abortion in the United States, upending a precedent set nearly 50 years ago in the landmark Roe v Wade case – a rare reversal of long-settled law that will fracture the foundations of modern reproductive rights in America.
The court’s ruling came in the pivotal case Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization, in which the last abortion clinic in Mississippi opposed the state’s efforts to ban abortion after 15 weeks and overturn Roe in the process.
The reversal of the 1973 opinion will again allow individual US states to ban abortion. At least 26 states are expected to do so immediately or as soon as practicable.
US supreme court overturns abortion rights, upending Roe v Wade
Ruling in pivotal case Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization follows draft majority opinion leaked in May
www.theguardian.com
(The Guardian) Just how big of a deal is the supreme court’s ruling? To Lawrence Gostin, faculty director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown Law, its decision to strike down the 49-year old Roe ruling is “the single greatest reversal of women’s rights in American history”.
From his statement: This Court’s blatant disregard for settled precedent, along with the previously leaked draft opinion, undermines the Court’s legitimacy and America’s trust in the federal judiciary. But even more troubling are the impacts on women who live in states banning or restricting abortion access. We are going to see ‘Two Americas,’ one that protects women’s health and rights and one where women will have few, if any, reproductive rights. The Supreme Court’s decision will widen racial and health disparities across America. The Supreme Court has made the United States an outlier among peer countries that safeguard the right to abortion.
Tarah Demant, interim national director for programs, advocacy and government affairs at Amnesty International USA, said the ruling marked a “grim milestone” in US history: People will be forced to give birth. They’ll be forced to seek unsafe abortions. This is the outcome of a decades-long campaign to control the bodies of women, girls, and people who can become pregnant. And it paves the way for unprecedented state legislation to criminalize abortion, as well as other bills that will aim to strip human rights from people in the United States, including the potential for bills that will affect access to birth control, gender, and marriage equality as well as other anti-discrimination laws... Regardless of what the Supreme Court says, abortion remains a human right and states all over the world are still obligated to uphold that right.
From his statement: This Court’s blatant disregard for settled precedent, along with the previously leaked draft opinion, undermines the Court’s legitimacy and America’s trust in the federal judiciary. But even more troubling are the impacts on women who live in states banning or restricting abortion access. We are going to see ‘Two Americas,’ one that protects women’s health and rights and one where women will have few, if any, reproductive rights. The Supreme Court’s decision will widen racial and health disparities across America. The Supreme Court has made the United States an outlier among peer countries that safeguard the right to abortion.
Tarah Demant, interim national director for programs, advocacy and government affairs at Amnesty International USA, said the ruling marked a “grim milestone” in US history: People will be forced to give birth. They’ll be forced to seek unsafe abortions. This is the outcome of a decades-long campaign to control the bodies of women, girls, and people who can become pregnant. And it paves the way for unprecedented state legislation to criminalize abortion, as well as other bills that will aim to strip human rights from people in the United States, including the potential for bills that will affect access to birth control, gender, and marriage equality as well as other anti-discrimination laws... Regardless of what the Supreme Court says, abortion remains a human right and states all over the world are still obligated to uphold that right.
Well thanks for repeating it😂
Fuck the Republicans. Fuck the Democrats. Fuck everyone who has refused to do anything about codifying Roe vs. Wade for over 40 years to guarantee reproductive rights. - stolen from a friend's Discord announcement/post about it.
it's rather striking the parallels between abortion and slavery. In both cases, the law allowed one group of people to classify another group of people as less than people. It made way for states that allowed or didn't allow it. The only way you can see it though is to not get hung up on the packaging and instead look at the core of the issue to see the parallels
A person might convince themselves that we are better than our ancestors but the truth is we really aren't as the same evils of the past always make their way back with new packaging to convince the next generation that the evils of the past aren't actually making a comeback where in each and every case a person is ultimately forced to choose which side they wish to be on where the side that's popular at the time ends up being horribly wrong while the side that's unpopular for the time ends up being right even if that level of clarity comes much later then one would have wanted it to be.
I think a question that should be asked but isn't is whether such rights that the left are demanding such as this one are rights that they should have ever been given in the first place by the law. The right to own slaves was a right that the government gave the people but today we see it as a right that the law should have never been given in the first place and the civil war and the amendments banning it were the law doing a much needed legal and moral course correction rather then the law and the people under said law coming to some new revelation it didn't have before.
A person might convince themselves that we are better than our ancestors but the truth is we really aren't as the same evils of the past always make their way back with new packaging to convince the next generation that the evils of the past aren't actually making a comeback where in each and every case a person is ultimately forced to choose which side they wish to be on where the side that's popular at the time ends up being horribly wrong while the side that's unpopular for the time ends up being right even if that level of clarity comes much later then one would have wanted it to be.
I think a question that should be asked but isn't is whether such rights that the left are demanding such as this one are rights that they should have ever been given in the first place by the law. The right to own slaves was a right that the government gave the people but today we see it as a right that the law should have never been given in the first place and the civil war and the amendments banning it were the law doing a much needed legal and moral course correction rather then the law and the people under said law coming to some new revelation it didn't have before.
Yep, enough said..
Welcome to America, where idocracy and anti-intellectual ignorance (nods at @WHO IS SERAFIN) are alive and well..... *whistles innocently*
I was going to post a separate thread but you beat me to it so... *shrugs*
Anyway, continuing on....
(The Guardian) States nationwide are continuing to act in the wake of the supreme court’s Dobbs decision, with Republican governors and officials moving to restrict abortion access.
“This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice in it and be glad. Today, along with millions across Louisiana and America, I rejoice with my departed Mom and the unborn children with her in Heaven!”, Louisiana attorney general Jeff Landry said in a statement where he announced a law banning abortion in the state was now in effect.
South Dakota has a similar such “trigger law” banning the procedure, but governor Kristi Noem and the leaders of the state legislature also announced a special session “to save lives and help mothers impacted by the decision”.
“We must do what we can to help mothers in crisis know that there are options and resources available for them. Together, we will ensure that abortion is not only illegal in South Dakota – it is unthinkable,” Noem said.
The second-in-command of the state senate Lee Schoenbeck elaborated on the reasons for calling the legislature back into session: “A special session is necessary because we could not have known this winter in session that we would have this opportunity and new responsibility to protect lives presented by the Supreme Court’s decision. Also, there will be more work to do on the many challenges a post-Roe world presents in regular session next January”.
In Illinois, Democratic governor JB Pritzker announced a special legislative session to make the state a haven for abortion access in a region where many of its neighbors will do the opposite.
(The Guardian) States nationwide are continuing to act in the wake of the supreme court’s Dobbs decision, with Republican governors and officials moving to restrict abortion access.
“This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice in it and be glad. Today, along with millions across Louisiana and America, I rejoice with my departed Mom and the unborn children with her in Heaven!”, Louisiana attorney general Jeff Landry said in a statement where he announced a law banning abortion in the state was now in effect.
South Dakota has a similar such “trigger law” banning the procedure, but governor Kristi Noem and the leaders of the state legislature also announced a special session “to save lives and help mothers impacted by the decision”.
“We must do what we can to help mothers in crisis know that there are options and resources available for them. Together, we will ensure that abortion is not only illegal in South Dakota – it is unthinkable,” Noem said.
The second-in-command of the state senate Lee Schoenbeck elaborated on the reasons for calling the legislature back into session: “A special session is necessary because we could not have known this winter in session that we would have this opportunity and new responsibility to protect lives presented by the Supreme Court’s decision. Also, there will be more work to do on the many challenges a post-Roe world presents in regular session next January”.
In Illinois, Democratic governor JB Pritzker announced a special legislative session to make the state a haven for abortion access in a region where many of its neighbors will do the opposite.
Yep and to quote this article...
"The Supreme Court's ruling does not end legal abortion in Illinois. The state has a law in place, signed in 2019, to keep abortion legal even if Roe v. Wade were overturned."
https://abc7chicago.com/supreme-court-roe-v-wade-illinois-abortion-law-overturned-decision/11992751/
Think IL is doing ok in this regard! I am from IL.
The thing I'd worry about (among other things) is that neighboring states (Missouri & Indiana) might try to criminalize women traveling to Illinois to procure abortion services and/or pass Texas-style bounty laws on par with the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act (yes, that's how bad the Texas law is).
(The Guardian) Medical experts have also decried the Dobbs opinion as threatening the health and autonomy of patients nationwide.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists released a statement condemning the supreme court opinion from its president, Iffath A Hoskins, MD, FACOG, reading in part: Today’s decision is a direct blow to bodily autonomy, reproductive health, patient safety and health equity in the United States.
Reversing the constitutional protection for safe, legal abortion established by the Supreme Court nearly fifty years ago exposes pregnant people to arbitrary, state-based restrictions, regulations, and bans that will leave many people unable to access needed medical care.
The restrictions put forth are not based on science nor medicine; they allow unrelated third parties to make decisions that rightfully and ethically should be made only by individuals and their physicians.
ACOG condemns this devastating decision, which will allow state governments to prevent women from living with autonomy over their bodies and their decisions.
The American Medical Association also released a statement denouncing the Dobbs opinion, with its president Jack Resneck Jr MD, writing: The American Medical Association is deeply disturbed by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn nearly a half century of precedent protecting patients’ right to critical reproductive health care—representing an egregious allowance of government intrusion into the medical examination room, a direct attack on the practice of medicine and the patient-physician relationship, and a brazen violation of patients’ rights to evidence-based reproductive health services.
States that end legal abortion will not end abortion —they will end safe abortion, risking [devastating] consequences, including patients’ lives.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists released a statement condemning the supreme court opinion from its president, Iffath A Hoskins, MD, FACOG, reading in part: Today’s decision is a direct blow to bodily autonomy, reproductive health, patient safety and health equity in the United States.
Reversing the constitutional protection for safe, legal abortion established by the Supreme Court nearly fifty years ago exposes pregnant people to arbitrary, state-based restrictions, regulations, and bans that will leave many people unable to access needed medical care.
The restrictions put forth are not based on science nor medicine; they allow unrelated third parties to make decisions that rightfully and ethically should be made only by individuals and their physicians.
ACOG condemns this devastating decision, which will allow state governments to prevent women from living with autonomy over their bodies and their decisions.
The American Medical Association also released a statement denouncing the Dobbs opinion, with its president Jack Resneck Jr MD, writing: The American Medical Association is deeply disturbed by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn nearly a half century of precedent protecting patients’ right to critical reproductive health care—representing an egregious allowance of government intrusion into the medical examination room, a direct attack on the practice of medicine and the patient-physician relationship, and a brazen violation of patients’ rights to evidence-based reproductive health services.
States that end legal abortion will not end abortion —they will end safe abortion, risking [devastating] consequences, including patients’ lives.
Because murdering a life and taking zero responsibility for your own personal actions is reproductive rights. Those words just make zero sense when said.
And before someone says it not talking about rape, incest it’s a separate discussion.
So far its' been loud but peaceful....
