The US Supreme Court has finally overturned the UNCONSTITUTIONAL Roe v. Wade decision that legalized baby murder at the federal level, rightfully returning the abortion decision to the states. Over 63 million unborn babies have been aborted in the US since the infamous Roe v. Wade decision was handed down, but finally justice has been done.
As of Jan. 2022, since Roe v. Wade legalized abortion in America, 63,459,781 babies have been killed in the US by abortion. For context, based on statistics from Military.com and Britannica, about 1,211,123 Americans died in all significant wars and conflicts in American history combined. That means the number of aborted babies between 1973 and 2022 in the US is more than 52 times greater than the number of Americans killed (1.21 million) in all US conflicts combined. That is mind-blowing. Every one of those lives was unique and infinitely precious. And on the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, a day for Christians to celebrate the love of God and the joy new life brings, this SCOTUS decision was very fitting.
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“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent people.” ― George Orwell
U.S. Supreme Court Overturns Roe, Triggering Texas Abortion Bans The Supreme Court has upheld a Mississippi law banning abortion at fifteen weeks' gestation, overturning the precedent set by Roe v. Wade. Isaiah Mitchell https://thetexan.news/wp-content/uploads...DC-1280x853.jpg
The U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey today, returning the authority to regulate abortion to the states.
In Texas, this means that district attorneys may prosecute abortion. Additionally, 30 days from now, the attorney general may sue anybody that performs or aids an elective abortion for at least $100,000, and the state may strip doctors and nurses of their licenses for carrying out the procedures.
State law says the mother that procured the abortion cannot be punished.
Texas currently has two abortion bans on the books: the older statute that the U.S. Supreme Court deemed unconstitutional in Roe, and the Human Life Protection Act, passed in 2021.
Although both ban elective abortions in Texas, they carve out slightly different exceptions and outline different punishments. The older statute, formerly codified as Chapter 6 ½ of the state penal code, threatens two to five years imprisonment for anybody that performs an abortion not meant to save the mother from death. The 2021 law, which takes effect 30 days from today, makes abortion a felony but does not punish procedures meant to save the mother from death or serious bodily impairment.-- excerpt, rest at link above --
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
"If the Union is dissolved, I shall return to my native State, and share the miseries of the people, and save in defense will draw my sword on none" Robert E. Lee, February 1861 following hearing of Texas secession.
(CNSNews.com) - "Held: The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe and Casey are overruled; and the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives."
That's the ruling that set off pandemonium outside the U.S. Supreme Court Friday morning, after the justices ruled 6-3 to overturn Roe v. Wade. The ruling does not outlaw abortion, but it allows the states to decide. Some will ban abortion, others will not.
According to the ruling: "The critical question is whether the Constitution, properly understood, confers a right to obtain an abortion."
Alito, writing for the majority, said:
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"We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled. The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision, including the one on which the defenders of Roe and Casey now chiefly rely—the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. That provision has been held to guarantee some rights that are not mentioned in the Constitution, but any such right must be “deeply rooted in this Nation’s history and tradition” and “implicit in the concept of ordered liberty.”
"The right to abortion does not fall within this category.
"Until the latter part of the 20th century, such a right was entirely unknown in American law. Indeed, when the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted, three quarters of the States made abortion a crime at all stages of pregnancy. The abortion right is also critically different from any other right that this Court has held to fall within the Fourteenth Amendment’s protection of 'liberty.'
"Roe’s defenders characterize the abortion right as similar to the rights recognized in past decisions involving matters such as intimate sexual relations, contraception, and marriage, but abortion is fundamentally different, as both Roe and Casey acknowledged, because it destroys what those decisions called 'fetal life' and what the law now before us describes as an 'unborn human being.'
"Stare decisis, the doctrine on which Casey’s controlling opinion was based, does not compel unending adherence to Roe’s abuse of judicial authority. Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences.
"And far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division."
"It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives. 'The permissibility of abortion, and the limitations, upon it, are to be resolved like most important questions in our democracy: by citizens trying to persuade one another and then voting.'” (Quoting Casey)
"That is what the Constitution and the rule of law demand."
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“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent people.” ― George Orwell
U.S. Supreme Court Reverses Roe v. Wade, Abortion to Be Illegal in Texas Texas is among a number of states that have passed “trigger laws” that would outlaw abortion.
By Sydnie Henry and Brandon Waltens | June 24, 2022
In a 6-3 decision released Friday, the United States Supreme Court overturned the landmark abortion cases Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, paving the way for states like Texas to outlaw abortion entirely.
On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court has released its majority opinion in Dobbs v. Mississippi, a case challenging a Mississippi law than band abortions after 15 weeks, finding that “The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe and Casey are overruled; and the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives.”
The decision allows for the legality abolition of abortion to be decided by individual states for the first time since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973. Texas is among a number of states that have passed “trigger laws” that would outlaw abortion in the state if Roe v. Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court. The Texas bill—HB 1280—was passed by the state Legislature last year.
The prohibition is set to go into effect in 30 days.
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“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent people.” ― George Orwell
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
The prohibition is set to go into effect in 30 days.
If something is unconstitutional, why wait?
"If the Union is dissolved, I shall return to my native State, and share the miseries of the people, and save in defense will draw my sword on none" Robert E. Lee, February 1861 following hearing of Texas secession.
This really is amazing - Thursday illegal gun restrictions and today abortion. Wow!!
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
Donald Trump said the overturning of the landmark Supreme Court decision giving women the right to abortion “will happen, automatically,” if he is elected president and gets to appoint justices to the high court.
“I am pro-life,” Trump said during Wednesday night’s presidential debate when asked whether he wanted that decision, Roe v. Wade, reversed by the Supreme Court.
Trump said that if the ruling were to be reversed, laws on the legality or illegality of abortion would “go back to the individual states” to decide, which was the case prior to Roe v. Wade.
But when moderator Chris Wallace pressed him on whether he wanted the ruling overturned, Trump said, “That will happen, automatically in my opinion,” because he would get to nominate potentially several justices to the court.
In response, Hillary Clinton said, “I strongly support Roe v. Wade.”
“I will defend Roe v. Wade, I will defend a woman’s right to make her own decision,” Clinton said.
She criticized Trump for having said in the past that a woman should be punished if she got an abortion when it was made illegal.
Trump fired back, saying Clinton was in favor of partial-birth abortions being legal, which meant that a fetus could be “ripped out” of a mother’s womb a day before she was due to give birth.-- excerpt, rest at link above --
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
Quote: Sanguine wrote in post #13This really is amazing - Thursday illegal gun restrictions and today abortion. Wow!!
And the big one, when it comes to touching the lives of everyone in this country, is yet to come.
West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency
QuoteWest Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency is all about the federal government's ability to create environmental regulations. The challengers are a group of 27 Republican attorneys general, many from states with traditions in the fossil fuel industry, including West Virginia.
Essentially, they argue that the executive branch of government – which includes the EPA – should not be allowed to set rules and regulations around greenhouse gas emissions. Rather, it should be Congress to do so...
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