Meme - "Look at these two old white men controlling what people do with their bodies."
10-year-old rape victim forced to travel from Ohio to Indiana for abortion - "The case of a 10-year-old child rape victim in Ohio who was six weeks pregnant, ineligible for an abortion in her own state, and forced to travel to Indiana for the procedure has spotlighted the shocking impact of the US supreme court ruling on abortion."
Specifics of this case aside (I saw people saying it was fake news because she didn't need to travel): Weird. She wasn't kidnapped, transported across state lines, tied down and given an abortion against her will. Nor was she made to do it at gunpoint. But of course we know that criteria for coercion/force only applies for covid vaccines
Facebook - "I smell a Jordan Peele thriller. #ChristoFascism #roevwade"
Meme - Your mom @wildlytweeting: "The amount of vaguely creepy-looking white couples holding up signs that say "Don't abort. We will adopt your baby" while more than 400,000 children are languishing in foster care in the United States tells you all you need to know about Evangelical Americans."
"PLEASE DON'T ABORT... WE WILL ADOPT YOUR BABY!"
"WE WILL ADOPT YOUR BABY"
Meme - "If you cared about babies you'd actually adopt them"
"OK"
Karen Chee @karencheee: "The “we will adopt your baby” couples all look like they’re auditioning to be the white people in a Jordan Peele movie"
Ollie @brainrottenaf: "they WILL adopt your baby- and yes, it's a threat"
i can be your long lost pal @PallaviGunalan: ""we will adopt your child" is colonizer energy"
Meme - Kelly Bachman @bellykachman: "Every "I will adopt your baby" girlie I have ever met has the vibes of the literal last person I would ever trust with a child"
"So now adoptive parents are the villian in your made up story? Yikes. Yall would"
Meme - "why dont pro lifers adopt??"
"we'll adopt your baby"
"wElL aDoPt YoUr BaBy"
Who Adopts the Most? | Adoption.org - " Christians. According to EthicsDaily.com, 5 percent of practicing Christians in the United States have adopted, which is more than twice the number of all adults who have adopted. In addition, a survey showed that 38 percent of practicing Christians had seriously considered adoption, while only 26 percent of all adults had.
Caucasians. Most adoptive parents (73 percent) are non-Hispanic white adults, according to a study by the Barna Group. However, they are less likely to adopt a Caucasian child. Only 37 percent of children adopted are Caucasian."
Meme - "Libs: "If you're pro-life, does that mean you' ll adopt?"
Pro-lifers: "Yes."
Libs: "You freaks!"
Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski: "Oddly enough, I don't think this makes anyone feel better."
Matt Oswalt @MattOswaltV: "from the director of Get Out and Us comes his most audacious horror yet..."
ZUBY: on Twitter - "It must be painful for people with disabilities or those who grew up in foster care to see tons of people essentially arguing that they should have been aborted. And that they are a 'burden' on society. 😔 That's dark. Really awful argument.
This notion that people are 'better off' dead than potentially (and often only temporarily) struggling is extremely disturbing to me. Inhumane. It leads to dark roads that humanity has been down before. Not good."
Halsey's abortion rights remarks prompt fans to leave concert - Los Angeles Times - "Halsey said good riddance to concertgoers who walked out of her show in Arizona on Sunday as she advocated onstage for reproductive rights."
When you have contempt for your audience and openly hate on fans who disagree (and don't want you to preach to them)
Left renounces Independence Day on Twitter: 'Burn this country to the godd--- ground' - "Left-wing members of news and entertainment media claimed that women in the country are no longer free as a result of the ruling, arguing there’s no point in July 4th this year. Some mentioned that former President Donald Trump and the January 6 Capitol riot ruined their holiday. One of the less cautious tweeters of the bunch actually expressed a desire to "blow up" the country on its biggest holiday.. "My mood this year is more like what about if we burn this country to the goddamn ground, as a little treat?"."
It is telling that to leftists, abortion is apparently the critical freedom they need. But who are they kidding? They hated their country even before Roe v Wade was overturned
nobody 🇺🇸 on Twitter - "Hundreds rally in Paris against Roe v. Wade ruling - News"
"The French are protesting American laws that only apply to our nation"
Usually, the cope about the hypocrisy of only protesting against Western countries or Israel when other countries are far worse is that those are democratic nations which will respond to protests (in other countries?!) But here it's a court decision. But we know that liberals want courts to rule on what is popular (that follows their agenda), not what is right, after all
Meme - "No reason to celebrate July 4th
fuck everything
I told my husband that I do not want to celebrate the upcoming of July holiday, I said I would like if both he and the kids didn't celebrate it either, I have never asked for anything like this. My reasoning? Why celebrate freedom when mine was just taken from not only me, but also half the population of this country. He knew my views on abortion and how strongly I feel about bodily autonomy. He told me he would think about it, I told him this is something I want support on, he told me he understands and my reasoning makes sense. My oldest understands but he is upset we won't light fireworks. I haven't said anything to my youngest yet. I'm raw, scared and burned out. I do not know if not celebrating July will make me feel better, but I know even faking it and doing it for my kids at this point is not something I am willing to do and will just make me miserable."
Let's face it. Before the repeal liberals already hated their Independence Day, since they have hated their nations for a long time
Way to go to force others to be miserable with you
Liberal maths is very poor. They keep claiming half the population has lost its rights. Even pretending that abortion is the sufficient and necessary right of all rights, all the repeal did was push abortion back to the states. As of 1st July, according to the Guttmacher Institute, the only states with restrictions at 6 weeks or which ban abortions are Alabama, Arkansas, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Tennessee, Wisconsin (though politicians have said it won't be enforced), which is only about 78 million people, i.e. 24% of the population - so only 12% of women are affected. The other states have abortion legal till 20 weeks, which is already more than in most of the Western world
Meme Girl in Handmaid's costume: "BUT WHY DIDN'T You VOTE AGAINST THEM, Mom? WHY DIDN'T You TRY To STOP THEM FROM TAKING IT ALL AWAY?"
Woman in Handmaid's costume: "WELL, BACK THEN, GAS PRICES WERE QUITE HIGH HONEY..."
Ironically, the little girl would have been aborted otherwise. Or frozen to death due to fuel poverty
Employee fired after refusing to work over Roe v. Wade ruling: 'I’m in mourning' - "A Universal Music Group employee said he was fired from his job for refusing to work after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last month, and claimed the termination showed the company did not support its workers "speaking out" about abortion rights. Michael Lopez, a now-former production coordinator at Universal Music Enterprises, attempted to shame the company in a LinkedIn post last week, saying he is a "queer brown person" who was "fired during Pride month for speaking up in defense of abortion rights."... Lopez said that every Friday, one of his tasks was to "process reports for upcoming releases" and he would then have to email his work to a list of 275 people. However, after the court's ruling, he decided not to complete the task and emailed his coworkers letting them know. "I didn't do them today," Lopez wrote in the email of the neglected work. "I'm in mourning due to the attack on people with uteruses in the US. Federally guaranteed access to abortion is gone." "Vivendi and Universal Music Group must stop donating to anti-abortion, anti-queer and anti-trans politicians," he wrote. "Politicians like Marsha Blackburn, Ken Buck, Victoria Spartz, etc. Or expect more unproductive days."... "Just got fired for this email from Friday, so they’re letting you know where they stand on employees speaking out on politicians that support marginalization for folks like me," he wrote in the email. "A brown queer person terminated during Pride month speaking in support of abortion rights. Seems like that’s exactly what America is all about right now." He concluded his LinkedIn post by saying he did not speak for his company, but for himself and employees who will "suffer under these discriminatory laws." "Their actions today, their silence on Friday are indicative of their motivations," Lopez wrote of his former employer. "Profit at all costs. Solidarity, only if it's profitable. And above all of that is maintaining the status quo and saying f--k you to the working class.""
SJWs are unproductive workers
What happens when campus culture meets the real world
Of course, liberals are going to claim that Universal Music is hostile to freedom of speech (see: their complaints about Elon Musk and Tesla)
Meme - Jessica Chastain: "Happy "Independence" Day from me and my reproductive rights."
"Worth noting that her child was born via a surrogate. Yup, she had her very own "handmaid," strangely enough."
Meme - "Nobody:
Literally Nobody:
Progressive women anytime anything happens... *Handmaid costumes*"
Meme - "Engaging in consensual procreation activity
Gets pregnant
"I have been enslaved""
Meme - "Pro-choice people when they consent to eat food and poo develops in their intestines against their will"
Meme - "Me and some of my girlfriends did a retreat this weekend to help us cope with the monumental setback in fundamental rights. By the end of it, we had moved from sad and afraid to ANGRY. We all agreed to a pact: no having sex with any men, until he had proven himself a capable provider, and until that man has signed a contract, written on paper, agreeing to stay with us and support us if we get pregnant. We started drafting an actual contract, and we're planning on sending it to a lawyer to make sure its legit. At this point, am completely done with men who want to hook up and leave, its high time for american men to STEP UP."
"Leftist women discover traditional marriage"
Abortion: What does overturn of Roe v Wade mean? - "All states allow abortion to save the life of the mother"
I still see many pro-choicers claiming that there're states which ban exception even if the mother will die. Ironically, in one case I saw one arrogantly tell a libertarian who said people could move to another state to "educate yourself" about gerrymandering supposedly preventing state laws from reflecting "the will of the people of the states who are pro-choice" (apparently everyone is pro-choice, and it's only evil lawmakers who are banning abortion)
Summer of Rage: Tracking Attacks on Pregnancy Centers & Pro-Life Groups - "More than 50 pregnancy resource centers and offices of pro-life groups have been attacked and vandalized since a draft Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade was leaked in early May. Pro-abortion domestic terrorists have claimed responsibility — and are promising more attacks in a “summer of rage“. The pregnancy resource centers, which provide free medical and financial support to pregnant and new mothers, have been spray-painted with pro-abortion and anarchist messages and symbols. Several have been set on fire. Other pro-life groups which advocate for the right to life have also had their offices vandalized. The attacks appear to be organized under the umbrella of two domestic terror groups — Jane’s Revenge and Ruth Sent Us — which have arisen since the Supreme Court opinion leak was published on May 2, 2022. Many of the attacks have similar messages, including “If abortions aren’t safe, neither are you”... Some attacks are going unreported because pregnancy resource centers want to protect their clients"
Weird. The pro-abortion crowd keep claiming pro-lifers don't care about the baby after it's born
Meme - "My brother's Pre-School is taking away fun activities from students because of how the "teachers" feel about the overturn.
Good Morning Families, Here at we believe in diversity, equity, and inclusion. The childcare field is led by women. We are saddened and angry with the supreme court's decision.
1) Fourth Of July Celebrations
Thus far we have decided to cancel the annual bike parade and class parties that were scheduled for 7/5/22. Please do not bring bikes or any patriotic treats. Even though we are aware that students have been working diligently on decorations. We believe this is the best decision for our employees and their feelings about having freedom stripped from them.
2) The Pledge Of Allegiance
Starting 7/5/22 we will no longer be reciting the pledge in our building.
3) Christmas In July
We have decided in the wake of everything to not partake in Christmas In July activities this year. However, you are still able to give your child's teachers gifts or provide a luncheon during July."
After Roe, some millennials are protesting by not spending with brands like Walmart and Taco Bell and growing their own food: 'This is a capitalist country. Don't let bad people have the thing t0hat they want from you the most' - ""But affecting revenue streams for big companies who put all this money into politics, eventually if enough people did it, it would cause a shift and a change."... She looked up places she shops and eats at on Progressive Shopper"
I remember when it was conservatives who were mocked for boycotting everything
Opinion: Roe was very bad for America. The court gives us a chance to reset - "By my lights, Roe and its progeny have been very bad for America. By virtue of those precedents, the Supreme Court imposed on the nation an extreme, one-size fits all regulatory regime for abortion of its own invention, without any justification in the text, history or tradition of the Constitution. Indeed, the reasoning in both Roe and Casey is famously weak and even the most sophisticated proponents of abortion rights have put forward their own justification rooted in the 13th amendment's ban on involuntary servitude or the 14th amendment's guarantee of equal protection, rather than mining that latter amendment's due process clause for an implicit right to privacy, which was the basis for the Roe decision, or an unwritten liberty interest, which was the grounding of the Casey decision. In my view, the Court's jurisprudence has, from the beginning, been a conclusion in search of a justification -- a tortured narrative of constantly shifting arguments, standards and rules. Not only did Roe and its progeny corrupt the law, but it also badly damaged our politics. It channeled all of the political energy of the abortion debate into proxy battles for control of the Supreme Court that played out in a toxic fashion in presidential and senatorial campaigns, reaching a shameful apex in judicial confirmation hearings, which have become a no-holds-barred blood sport where politicians don't merely argue, they seek to destroy the nominee as a person. This has transformed into something entirely darker, with justices and their families facing harassment and other threats of violence, including murder... But apart from all this, Roe and its progeny have wounded the nation in a way that is even more relevant now; Roe eliminated the need for us to talk to one another in the political sphere in a way that has real and concrete meaning for the laws and policies that bind us. The Supreme Court took the issue of abortion out of the political, legislative and executive spheres (except for minor ancillary side constraints such as parental involvement laws, informed consent provisions, waiting periods and limits on especially controversial methods of abortion). It declared one side -- the abortion rights side -- the victor of the most hotly contested public question in the modern era, and told the other side to go home. And it did so under a notoriously weak interpretive analysis that even liberals like American legal scholar Laurence Tribe once recognized as unpersuasive. So for nearly 50 years, those on opposite sides of the issue haven't really had to learn how to talk to one another in a serious way about how to find a path forward for the law and policy of abortion -- we simply did what the Supreme Court told us insofar as we could tell what that was. There was no need for those who disagreed to discuss the issue since we weren't allowed to govern ourselves. But that all has to change now. We need to re-learn how to talk about abortion as a precondition of self-governance."
Honest pro-choicers admit Roe v. Wade was a horrible decision - "Laurence Tribe — Harvard Law School. Lawyer for Al Gore in 2000.
“One of the most curious things about Roe is that, behind its own verbal smokescreen, the substantive judgment on which it rests is nowhere to be found.”...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg — Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
“Roe, I believe, would have been more acceptable as a judicial decision if it had not gone beyond a ruling on the extreme statute before the court. … Heavy-handed judicial intervention was difficult to justify and appears to have provoked, not resolved, conflict.”...
Edward Lazarus — Former clerk to Harry Blackmun.
“As a matter of constitutional interpretation and judicial method, Roe borders on the indefensible. I say this as someone utterly committed to the right to choose, as someone who believes such a right has grounding elsewhere in the Constitution instead of where Roe placed it, and as someone who loved Roe’s author like a grandfather.”... “What, exactly, is the problem with Roe? The problem, I believe, is that it has little connection to the Constitutional right it purportedly interpreted. A constitutional right to privacy broad enough to include abortion has no meaningful foundation in constitutional text, history, or precedent - at least, it does not if those sources are fairly described and reasonably faithfully followed.”...
“[A]s a matter of constitutional interpretation, even most liberal jurisprudes — if you administer truth serum — will tell you it is basically indefensible.”...
William Saletan — Slate columnist who left the GOP 2004 because it was too pro-life.
“Blackmun’s [Supreme Court] papers vindicate every indictment of Roe: invention, overreach, arbitrariness, textual indifference.”...
Benjamin Wittes — Washington Post
Roe “is a lousy opinion that disenfranchised millions of conservatives on an issue about which they care deeply.”...
Richard Cohen — Washington Post
“[T]he very basis of the Roe v. Wade decision — the one that grounds abortion rights in the Constitution — strikes many people now as faintly ridiculous. Whatever abortion may be, it cannot simply be a matter of privacy.”... Roe “is a Supreme Court decision whose reasoning has not held up. It seems more fiat than argument.”... “Still, a bad decision is a bad decision. If the best we can say for it is that the end justifies the means, then we have not only lost the argument — but a bit of our soul as well.”...
Alan Dershowitz — Harvard Law School
Roe v. Wade and Bush v. Gore “represent opposite sides of the same currency of judicial activism in areas more appropriately left to the political processes…. Judges have no special competence, qualifications, or mandate to decide between equally compelling moral claims (as in the abortion controversy)…. [C]lear governing constitutional principles … are not present in either case.”...
Cass Sunstein — University of Chicago and a Democratic adviser on judicial nominations
“In the Court’s first confrontation with the abortion issue, it laid down a set of rules for legislatures to follow. The Court decided too many issues too quickly. The Court should have allowed the democratic processes of the states to adapt and to generate sensible solutions that might not occur to a set of judges.”...
Jeffrey Rosen — Legal Affairs Editor, The New Republic
“In short, 30 years later, it seems increasingly clear that this pro-choice magazine was correct in 1973 when it criticized Roe on constitutional grounds. Its overturning would be the best thing that could happen to the federal judiciary, the pro-choice movement, and the moderate majority of the American people... “Thirty years after Roe, the finest constitutional minds in the country still have not been able to produce a constitutional justification for striking down restrictions on early-term abortions that is substantially more convincing than Justice Harry Blackmun’s famously artless opinion itself. As a result, the pro-choice majority asks nominees to swear allegiance to the decision without being able to identify an intelligible principle to support it.”...
Kermit Roosevelt — University of Pennsylvania Law School
“[I]t is time to admit in public that, as an example of the practice of constitutional opinion writing, Roe is a serious disappointment. You will be hard-pressed to find a constitutional law professor, even among those who support the idea of constitutional protection for the right to choose, who will embrace the opinion itself rather than the result. “This is not surprising. As constitutional argument, Roe is barely coherent...
Archibald Cox — JFK's Solicitor General, Harvard Law School
“The failure to confront the issue in principled terms leaves the opinion to read like a set of hospital rules and regulations…. Neither historian, nor layman, nor lawyer will be persuaded that all the prescriptions of Justice Blackmun are part of the Constitution”"
Who is Today's John Hart Ely? - "I taught John Hart Ely's remarkable article, The Wages of Crying Wolf: A Comment on Roe v. Wade. It was an early and now-canonical critique of the Supreme Court's decision that was especially powerful because it was written by somebody who supported much of the work of the Warren Court, and who also supported Roe as a policy matter.
That is why Ely wrote this famous paragraph:
Roe v. Wade seems like a durable decision. It is, nevertheless, a very bad decision. Not because it will perceptibly weaken the Court--it won't; and not because it conflicts with either my idea of progress, or what the evidence suggests is society's--it doesn't. It is bad because it is bad constitutional law, or rather because it is not constitutional law and gives almost no sense of an obligation to try to be.
In any event, consider this. Here is a (1) professor at a top law school writing (2) an article in a top law journal, that (3) strongly criticized the legality of a recent Supreme Court decision while (4) noting that he strongly endorsed the decision as a matter of policy, and did not think it would cause any bad consequences...
I know there are many examples of top scholars who hold such views, but do not write them up in top journals."
WATCH: AOC Pretends To Be Handcuffed As Police Arrest 17 House Dems Outside SCOTUS - "Police arrested at least 17 House Democrats on Tuesday for blocking traffic outside the United States Supreme Court during a planned “civil disobedience” abortion protest. Democrat Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Carolyn Maloney of New York, Cori Bush of Missouri, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, Madeleine Dean of Pennsylvania, Nydia Velazquez of New York, Barbara Lee of California, Jackie Speier of California, Katherine Clark of Massachusetts, Sara Jacobs of California, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Andy Levin of Michigan, Alma Adams of North Carolina, Bonnie Watson Coleman of New Jersey, Veronica Escobar of Texas, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, and Jan Schakowsky of Illinois were arrested... The New York Democrat holds her hands behind her back as if she is handcuffed, then lifts one fist in the air, shakes it, and then again places it behind her back. Her office did not immediately respond to requests for comment... “Have to wonder if any of the protesters alongside her ever thought ‘wait .. aren’t you an elected member of Congress with the power to pass legislation on this issue? Why are you over here protesting? Pass a bill!' ”“She pretends to be handcuffed, raises her fist in a salute, and then goes back to pretending to be handcuffed”"
A fetus counts as a dependent on state tax returns in Georgia - "An individual at least six weeks pregnant on or after July 20 through Dec. 31, 2022, can list the fetus as a dependent on their tax returns starting next year, the agency said. Georgian taxpayers can claim an exemption in the amount of $3,000 for each dependent... The "fetal personhood law" is the idea that a fetus is a person with full constitutional rights from the moment of fertilization. Both Georgia and Arizona established this in their abortion laws, but Arizona's statute has been challenge in court."
A lot of pro-choice people were asking for this. But this is not going to make them happier
The Irrational, Misguided Discourse Surrounding Supreme Court Controversies Such as Roe v. Wade - "Every time there is a controversy regarding a Supreme Court ruling, the same set of radical fallacies emerges regarding the role of the Court, the Constitution and how the American republic is designed to function. Each time the Court invalidates a democratically elected law on the ground that it violates a constitutional guarantee — as happened in Roe — those who favor the invalidated law proclaim that something “undemocratic” has transpired, that it is a form of “judicial tyranny” for “five unelected judges” to overturn the will of the majority. Conversely, when the Court refuses to invalidate a democratically elected law, those who regard that law as pernicious, as an attack on fundamental rights, accuse the Court of failing to protect vulnerable individuals. This by-now-reflexive discourse about the Supreme Court ignores its core function. Like the U.S. Constitution itself, the Court is designed to be an anti-majoritarian check against the excesses of majoritarian sentiment... As Madison put it: “To secure the public good, and private rights, against the danger of such a faction, and at the same time to preserve the spirit and the form of popular government, is then the great object to which our enquiries are directed.” Indeed, the key difference between a pure democracy and a republic is that the rights of the majority are unrestricted in the former, but are limited in the latter. The point of the Constitution, and ultimately the Supreme Court, was to establish a republic, not a pure democracy, that would place limits on the power of majorities... It was bizarre to watch liberals accuse the Court of acting “undemocratically" as they denounced the ability of "five unelected aristocrats” — in the words of Vox's Ian Millhiser — to decide the question of abortion rights. Who do they think decided Roe in the first place? Indeed, Millhiser's argument here — unelected Supreme Court Justices have no business mucking around in abortion rights — is supremely ironic given that it was unelected judges who issued Roe back in 1973, in the process striking down numerous democratically elected laws. Worse, this rhetoric perfectly echoes the arguments which opponents of Roe have made for decades: namely, it is the democratic process, not unelected judges, which should determine what, if any, limits will be placed on the legal ability to provide or obtain an abortion. Indeed, Roe was the classic expression of the above-described anti-majoritarian and anti-democratic values: seven unelected men (for those who believe such demographic attributes matter) struck down laws that had been supported by majorities and enacted by many states which heavily restricted or outright banned abortion procedures. The sole purpose of Roe was to deny citizens the right to enact the anti-abortion laws, no matter how much popular support they commanded. This extreme confusion embedded in heated debates over the Supreme Court was perhaps most vividly illustrated last night by Waleed Shahid, the popular left-wing activist, current spokesman for the left-wing group Justice Democrats, and previously a top aide and advisor to Squad members including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Shahid — who, needless to say, supports Roe — posted a quote from Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address, in 1861, which Shahid evidently believes supports his view that Roe must be upheld. But the quote from Lincoln — warning that the Court must not become the primary institution that decides controversial political questions — does not support Roe at all; indeed, Lincoln's argument is the one most often cited in favor of overruling Roe"
Ironically, nowadays democracy is conceived of as protecting minority rights, but that doesn't stop those who insist that the US is not a "democracy", since words change meanings only with respect to the Second Amendment ("well-regulated")
Democrats mislead voters about what happens if Roe is overturned - "If the Supreme Court does overturn Roe — conservatives shouldn’t take a victory lap until it reaches the finish line — then abortion policy will return to the states. States that want to ban it can ban it, states that want to restrict it after a certain threshold, such as 12 weeks, can do so, and states that want to embrace abortion fanaticism can still allow it with no restrictions. California Gov. Gavin Newsom is among those liars and buffoons trying to convince people that overturning Roe would actually ban abortion rather than let states decide how to handle it. Newsom declared that California “will not sit back” and that he is “going to fight like hell” to ensure people can have their unborn children killed in the Golden State. But nothing is going to change in California, which allows abortion up until viability (around 24 weeks into pregnancy). New York Mayor Eric Adams, the wannabe celebrity who somehow ended up in charge of the most populous city in the country, is also “ready to fight like hell” over something that doesn’t affect New Yorkers in the slightest. In 2019, New York voted to allow abortion up until the baby is born... The only thing this ruling would do is end the deference of the courts to abortion activists whenever a state wants to bring its abortion laws in line with most of Europe. Any law that could be seen as even a minor inconvenience to the abortion industry gets dragged to court within hours of passage. This ruling would only put pro-life politicians and activists on the same ground that abortion fanatics have occupied for years. Democrats are worried because now they will actually have to convince voters to support their increasingly radical abortion policies. So they have to instill maximum fear. Politicians such as Newsom and Adams know exactly what they are doing."
The Impact of Overturning Roe v. Wade Will Be Less Dramatic Than Abortion-Rights Advocates Fear - "based on a scenario in which 22 states banned abortion, Middlebury College economist Caitlin Knowles Myers projected that the annual number of abortions in the U.S. would fall by about 14 percent. In Texas, which banned the vast majority of abortions last September and avoided early judicial intervention by restricting enforcement to private civil actions, the net impact seems to have been a drop of about 10 percent. Americans should keep those surprisingly modest estimates in mind... even in states that ban elective abortions, workarounds will mitigate the impact of those laws. Those options, which include traveling to clinics in other states and obtaining pills for self-induced abortions, will entail additional time, effort, cost, and in some cases legal risk. The new burdens will be prohibitive for many women, especially those with low incomes, inflexible work schedules, or pressing family responsibilities. But the net effect will not be nearly as dramatic as pro-life activists might hope or pro-choice activists might fear. "A post-Roe United States isn't one in which abortion isn't legal at all," Myers observed in an interview with The New York Times. "It's one in which there's tremendous inequality in abortion access."... The states that are likely to ban abortion already have relatively low abortion rates"
Lila Rose on Twitter - "It’s not enough to send abortion back to the states. Democracies shouldn’t have the ability to vote on if a genocide can be committed against an entire group of people. Human rights are not decided by majority vote. They are inalienable... The Constitution is not silent on abortion. The 14th Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection and due process should make abortion illegal nationwide"
Liberals insist that fundamental rights are not up for debate. But they assume that they are the only ones who get to define fundamental rights
Justin Amash on Twitter - "Leaking a draft opinion of the Supreme Court destroys trust among the justices and undermines justice. The justices must be able to share their thoughts candidly—and vulnerably—with one another. They are judges deciding cases, not legislators writing laws that need public input."
