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6/24: Gen. Congress Vote, Rasmussen Reports |
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RIGHT-LEANING SENTIMENT
Abortion Law Rightfully Returns to the People
- Abortion is not mentioned in the constitution, therefore it is not a constitutional right.
- This decision is expressly related to abortion, not same-sex marriage or other rights despite outlandish claims and stretched logic on the left.
- The law isn't the only thing being remade – it’s our national perspective on motherhood.
"Abortion Goes Back to the People" Editorial Board, The Wall Street Journal: "The central point ... is that abortion can be found nowhere in the Constitution. The parchment is neutral on the issue. The supporters of an abortion right claim to have found it in the due process clause of the 14th Amendment, which was ratified in 1868. But until the latter part of the 20th century, the idea of a right to abortion could be found nowhere in American law. No state constitutions included it, and until shortly before Roe no court had recognized such a right. ... The debate will now shift from courts to the political branches, which should be healthy for the judiciary. ... Both sides of the abortion debate will now have to achieve their policy goal the old-fashioned way—through persuasion, not judicial fiat."
"What Progressives Get Wrong About Overturning Roe" Jonathan Turley, USA Today Op-ed: "In reality, the post-Roe world will look much like the Roe world for most citizens. ... The opinion expressly does not address contraception, same-sex marriage or other rights. That claim has always been absurd but has become a talking point on the left. ... Abortion will now be 'on the ballot.' The justices were indeed motivated by the need for the public to make these decisions and wrote that 'Roe abruptly ended that political process.' The issue will loom large in the upcoming election now that states will decide their own laws, ranging from prohibitions to restrictions to absolute guarantees. And the outcome will turn on the votes of millions of citizens rather than nine justices."
One more opinion piece from the Right: "Why Supreme Court abortion decision empowers women" Erin Hawley, Fox News Opinion
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LEFT-LEANING SENTIMENT
Disastrous Decision That Will Harm Millions of Americans Now and In the Future
- This decision harms pregnant Americans in the short-term, other Americans like same-sex couples in the medium term, and the court itself in the long term.
- Massive state surveillance programs that track search histories, text messages, and period-tracking apps will be used by prosecutors to examine if the loss of a pregnancy may have been deliberate.
- Roe is just the beginning. Other legal guarantees, including same-sex marriage, access to contraception, and even interracial marriage may now be at stake.
"The Supreme Court’s radical abortion ruling begins a dangerous new era" Editorial Board, The Washington Post: "It is hard to exaggerate how wrongheaded, radical and dangerous this ruling is, and not just for anyone who could ever become pregnant. A 5-4 majority has thrust the country and the court itself into a perilous new era, one in which the court is no longer a defender of key personal rights. ... The first victims will be Americans who are pregnant or who might become pregnant. Abortion will become automatically illegal in 13 states. ... The court’s audacious attack on abortion rights raises questions about the future of other legal guarantees, including same-sex marriage, access to contraception and even interracial marriage. These guarantees are based on concepts of individual rights of the sort the court majority has now disregarded. ... The last victim is the court itself. In a stroke, a heedless majority has done more to undermine the court’s credibility than any other action it has taken in modern times."
"We’re Not Going Back to the Time Before Roe. We’re Going Somewhere Worse" Jia Tolentino, New Yorker: "In the states where abortion has been or will soon be banned, any pregnancy loss past an early cutoff can now potentially be investigated as a crime. Search histories, browsing histories, text messages, location data, payment data, information from period-tracking apps—prosecutors can examine all of it if they believe that the loss of a pregnancy may have been deliberate. ... Both abortion and miscarriage currently occur more than a million times each year in America, and the two events are often clinically indistinguishable. Because of this, prohibition states will have a profoundly invasive interest in differentiating between them. ... We are not going back to the pre-Roe era, and we should not want to go back to the era that succeeded it, which was less bitter than the present but was never good enough. We should demand more, and we will have to."
One more opinion piece from the Left: “If the Supreme Court Can Reverse Roe, It Can Reverse Anything” Mary Ziegler, The Atlantic
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Majority Think Abortion Should be Legal in All or Most Cases
According to polling from the Pew Research Center, "a 61% majority of US adults say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, while 37% think abortion should be illegal in all or most cases.
According to a new CBS News/YouGov reaction poll, "Fifty-nine percent of Americans disapprove of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and take away the federal protections of abortion rights," Axios notes. "Among women polled, 67% disapprove."
Flag Poll: Do you agree with the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade? Click here to share your thoughts.
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The Dobbs vote was 6-3, not 5-4. What are you trying to do’ here?
The ruling in support of Dobbs v. Jackson was 6-3, while the ruling overturning Roe v. Wade was 5-4. (Source). More from other outlets:
CNBC: “The Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that established the constitutional right to abortion.”
POLITICO: “The Supreme Court on Friday revoked the constitutional right to an abortion that has been in place for half a century — overturning Roe v. Wade on a 5-4 vote…”
SCOTUSBlog: “The vote to overturn Roe was 5-4. Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett joined Alito’s opinion. Chief Justice John Roberts did not join the opinion. He agreed with the majority that the Mississippi abortion restriction at issue in the case should be upheld, but in a separate opinion, he argued that the court should not have overturned Roe.”
More: Was Roe overturned 5-4 or 6-3? Pete Williams explains the difference (Watch)
I support this because the Feds never should have had power over this. This belongs to the states and always should have been with the states. I personally do not care if women want to kill their babies but I find this uproar to be manufactured. Why do we need abortions and more? We have the pill, the morning after pill, condoms, and probably others I’m not aware of. The majority of states will see no change on abortion so what is the problem? Don’t like your states stance on abortion. Then work to change it or move to another state(which is what I plan to do).
Even RGB said the initial “decision” was essentially flawed and so to me, illegal. (Note: After I stated that on a facebook page, I received an email this AM to another email account I have referencing the same that had a virus.. so be careful.. those pro-killers love to destroy and hate). First, the court said effectively that this was not a constitutional right although they did not say it was not a right. They brought this back to the people to vote on where it belongs. The court is not a legislature, although most progressives want it to be. Biden should be neutral on this as well as Trump. A statistic I heard this morning on the radio was that we were “outliers” in our abortion handling here in the US. Most European countries ban abortions after 15 weeks. I taught in a high school in the early 70s and we had an anti-abortion rally in Philadelphia that had thousands taking part in it… and the media did NOT cover it at all. So this is an idea that is being shoved on people to “believe” and its chief proponents seem to be men, like Bill Clinton (known for his dalliances). I find most women feel it may be needed within a short time frame but after that.. nope. So the media pushing that most people want unlimited abortion is bull and is probably the result of lies from the media owned moneybags who are doing it with anyone who reports to them. The woman is the one being hurt in all of this. If she is raped, why kill the child and not the rapist? Really. Think about it.
And in case of rape you have the morning after pill which prevents pregnancy. Abortion has become a means of birth control. With the myriad choices to prevent pregnancy, even men can choose a vasectomy, there should be little or no need to terminate a pregnancy. I think abortion has allowed people to become irresponsible for taking control of their decisions and facing the consequences.
Roe was wrongly decided from the start. Abortion law, under the 10th Amendment should be left to the voters of each State to decide. Abortions will not vanish from the America but rather exist or not in some form in each State based on the votes of that State’s citizens. Like it or not, this is how Democracy functions. I am frankly puzzled by a group that would rather have the Federal Government or the Supreme Court dictate policy than putting the power to the people. I am not afraid of Democracy.
Concur with the Supreme Court! It was never an issue that should have been approved by the Supreme Court in the first place. As anyone can reasonably understand, abortion – death of a human life is not contained within the United States Constitution (this also goes with homosexual marriage). The definition of a marriage is two people of the opposite sex who commit their lives together as one. The courts need to stop legislating from the bench, these are issues for the people of the United States to decide through their elected leaders. Just think of all the people who would be here today if it were not put to death through abortion. Maybe we would have had someone who would have made a significant discovery such as finding a cure to cancer, or cure to some other disease, or a new invention, etc…