Roe v. Wade Overturned?
Roe v. Wade Overturned?
A draft opinion has leaked showing a 5-4 vote to return abortion to the states
Quick thoughts:
I read some analysis recently that pointed out how Chief Justice John Roberts believes in protecting the legitimacy of the Supreme Court at all costs. Remember when he switched his vote to uphold Obamacare? This analysis suggested that Roberts would join with five other justices so as to write the majority opinion himself and therefore tailor it as narrowly as possible. A 5-4 decision, with an opinion written by Justice Alito, indicates that this has not happened. However, the decision is not final. Roberts could still join the majority, or he might vote with the liberals.
Why was the opinion leaked? This text has been circulating among the justices for a while now and they still have time to change their votes. Whomever leaked this opinion obviously wants to put pressure on the five conservative justices to change their minds. Watch for such shenanigans. If it turns out to be a leftist clerk, then watch for the media to turn him or her into a hero.
Abortion is literally a sacrament of the progressive religion. It is their most important issue. The BLM/Antifa riots in 2020 might be just a taste of what might happen should Roe be officially overturned. I have already discussed how blue states are enshrining abortion into law while red states are trying to ban it. Amazon just announced today that they will be paying up to $4,000 for employees to cross state lines to get abortions. There is nothing the left will not do to maintain the legality of this barbaric practice.
I hope that Justices Alito, Thomas, Barrett, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh have impeccable security. Pray this opinion holds to completion.
They leaked it to get the justices to be threatened or shamed. They're weak justices and they will cave. God is bigger and prayer will help.
From the ruling:
As has become increasingly apparent in the intervening years, Casey did not achieve that goal. Americans continue to hold passionate and widely divergent views on abortion, and state legislatures have acted accordingly. Some have recently enacted laws allowing abortion, with few restrictions, at all stages of pregnancy. Others have tightly restricted abortion beginning well before viability. And in this case, 26 States have expressly asked this Court to over. rule Roe and Casey and allow the States to regulate or prohibit pre-viability abortions.
Before us now is one such state law. The State of Mississippi asks us to uphold the constitutionality of a law that generally prohibits an abortion after the fifteenth week of pregnancy-several weeks before the point at which a fetus is now regarded as "viable" outside the womb. In defending this law, the State's primary argument is that we should reconsider and overrule Roe and Casey and once again allow each State to regulate abortion as its citizens wish. On the other side, respondents and the Solicitor General ask us to reaffirm Roe and Casey, and they contend that the Mississippi law cannot stand if we do so. Allowing Mississippi to prohibit abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, they argue, "would be no different than overruling Casey and Roe entirely." Brief for Respondents 43. They contend that half-measures" are available and that we must either reaffirm or overrule Roe and Casey. Id., at 50.
We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled. The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision, including the one on which the defenders of Roe and Casey now chiefly relythe Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. That provision has been held to guarantee some rights that are not mentioned in the Constitution, but any such right must be "deeply rooted in this Nation's his- tory and tradition" and "implicit in the concept of ordered liberty." Washington v. Glucksberg, 521 U. S. 702, 721 (1997) (internal quotation marks omitted).
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Link to ruling (PDF):
https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000180-874f-dd36-a38c-c74f98520000