03-05-2022, 18:33
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Re: Draft Supreme Court opinion overturning (Roe v Wade) abortion leaked
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Originally Posted by pip08456
Here we go again, media scaremongering that will probably lead to another 100+ page thread on something that may not turn out to be fact.
It's a draft of what one of the SCOTUS considers to be the final decision which has gone to the others for input.
Everything or parts could change before the final decision as has happened before. It is not yet a done deal.
The final ruling will not be until June/July.
If Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, Texas will completely ban abortion. |
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/0...inion-00029473
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A person familiar with the court’s deliberations said that four of the other Republican-appointed justices – Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett – had voted with Alito in the conference held among the justices after hearing oral arguments in December, and that line-up remains unchanged as of this week.
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The document, labeled as a first draft of the majority opinion, includes a notation that it was circulated among the justices on Feb. 10.
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---------- Post added at 18:33 ---------- Previous post was at 17:07 ----------
Interesting point (imho) at the end of an article in today’s Washington Post.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...supreme-court/
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There is one possible sliver of a silver lining in this calamity of a ruling. Alito went out of his way to distinguish abortion from other rights, similarly unstated in the Constitution, such as access to contraception, homosexual sex and same-sex marriage. Abortion, he argued, is “a unique act” because it, unlike the others, implicates potential human life.
“We emphasize that our decision concerns the constitutional right to abortion and no other right,” Alito wrote. “Nothing in this opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion.”
You can, perhaps, take some solace in this. Or you could remember that Alito dissented vigorously in the same-sex marriage ruling, arguing that “the Constitution leaves that question to be decided by the people of each State.” If that sounds alarmingly familiar, it should.
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