Quote (Skinned @ Dec 3 2021 07:29am)
I've been telling people for at least two years that abortion will be completely banned in five years. Roe v Wade is poised to be overturned, reproductive self-determinism is about to go away for women, and not many people are making much noise about it because a religiously activists court is using the Covid story to take the headlines and keep the lights off of them.
This is going to lead to a crises of authority. SCOTUS is our highest power generally, and they are becoming increasingly activist, creating law themselves rather than ruling on laws on their Constitutionally. New Justice Barrett has already engaged in bad faith arguments like safe haven laws eliminate the need for abortions, as if physically having a child and using hospital services and being pregnant for several months isn't something that affects you.
My view is that the ban on abortion is going to lead to a constitutional crisis and the activist court will be at fault for this as they do not respect the history or rulings of the court they are on. They are content to rewrite history or pretend fundamental facts have changed.
Roe v Wade is commonly accepted by both left and right to be bad law. As Alito pointed out, bad law is bad law, it can and should be overturned. There isn't a certain amount of time that we need to pass in order to feel comfortable reversing a mistake.
Barrett was merely pointing out that you can't conflate the burden of pregnancy with the burden of parenthood, which pro-advocates often do. To ban or limit abortion is to saddle that woman with the burden of giving birth, but it does not saddle her with the burden of motherhood.
This post was edited by bogie160 on Dec 3 2021 10:55am