Conservatives have been waiting decades for this moment: a transformed Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear an abortion case that directly challenges women’s reproductive rights tracing to the 1973 Roe v. Wade milestone. And unlike past times when Roe teetered in the balance, this is not a 5-4 court with the potential to suddenly dash the hopes of Republicans and religious conservatives. This is a 6-3 conservative-liberal bench. If one of the GOP appointees suddenly edges left, as happened before, a five-justice right-wing majority would still exist.Republicans rued the abortion-rights votes of GOP-nominated Justices Sandra Day O’Connor, David Souter and Anthony Kennedy, all now retired, over the years.
But the current makeup of the court, with three appointees of former President Donald Trump and three other justices who have opposed abortion rights, provides a dynamic that found abortion opponents ecstatic at the court’s announcement and abortion rights supporters trembling.
After months of internal debate on the matter, the justices announced on Monday they would add to their 2021-22 session a dispute over a Mississippi ban on abortions after 15 weeks. The controversy, which would likely be heard in the fall and decided by June of 2022, could eviscerate the heart of Roe v. Wade, which declared women have a constitutional right to end a pregnancy.
After stabbing Trump, and us, in the back, do we really expect them to do the right thing anymore?
So after telling citizens we MUST inject an experimental poison in our veins we get to hear “my body my choice” again…
Get stuffed!
I wouldn’t get my hopes up for this bunch of traitors. I just saw that a couple of the new kids got multi-million dollar book deals.
Tears.
They now justify every wrong ruling on the basis that they don’t want the infantile leftists to riot and burn down the country!
Screw em.
This is CNN hysteria-mongering. Abortion rights aren’t close to being “at risk”.
BUT… as long as the lib media can keep both one-issue leftists and rightists focused on this kind of thing, maybe they won’t pay attention to anything that requires math, the rising totalitarianism, the coming stagflation or hyperinflation, the destruction of everything else…
Nothing is going to “overturn Roe v. Wade” because Roe v. Wade already was substantially rewritten by Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which substituted “viability” for the trimester argument. Is 15 weeks a viable fetus that can live outside the womb? Yes or no.
But you know… “Oh look! There’s a squirrel!”