Roe v. Wade was overturned by a single vote. The case that overturned it was decided 6-3, but Chief Justice Roberts only concurred in reversing the lower court decision on narrower grounds, and wasn’t in favor of completely scrapping Roe v. Wade. Without Amy Cony Barrett’s vote, Roe v. W[...]
Posts Tagged ‘abortion’
August 26th, 2022 - 4:36 pm § in Law and Courts, Religion
A Handmaid’s tale: Who really killed Roe v. Wade?
August 26th, 2022 - 12:25 am § in Politics
Is Marco Rubio trying to commit political suicide?
Marco Rubio (R-FL) has been a U.S. Senator for 11 years now, and over that time he’s committed to being mealy-mouthed about abortion (see article here). He’s also flip-flopped. Back in 2013, he sponsored a Senate bill to ban abortion after 20 weeks, with exceptions for the life of the mo[...]
August 23rd, 2022 - 5:45 pm § in Politics
Vote first, ask questions later
A South Carolina GOP state legislator claims he’s been losing sleeping after being told by a doctor the fetal heartbeat bill he voted for could’ve killed a teenage girl. Sounds like he has more conscience than most Republicans, but wouldn’t it have been better to consider the conse[...]
August 21st, 2022 - 5:30 pm § in Politics
Kansas abortion foes got their recount and here’s what it shows
In the first ballot-box test of abortion rights after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the Kansas electorate kept abortion legal in their state, by a vote of 543,855 (59%) to 378,466 (41%), see details here. Anti-abortion activists requested a recount, raising $50,000 online, with another $[...]
Ban abortions or the sewer gets it!
No abortion enforcement, no flood control money. That’s the position of Louisiana attorney general Jeff Landry, a sanctimonious Republican anti-abortion zealot who’s flipping the (mostly black) citizens of New Orleans a big bird because their city government asked local law enforcers to [...]
Why is a girl too young to have an abortion, old enough to be a parent?
Self-contradicting conservative rationalization is playing out in Florida courts, where a circuit judge, then a state appeals court, ruled a pregnant 16-year-old is not “sufficiently mature to decide whether to terminate her pregnancy.” (See NBC News story here.) Florida law requires minors to g[...]
The unintended consequences of hasty abortion bans
I grew up in a conservative community, and as a juvenile, my political thinking was conservative, too. Not just because everyone around me thought that way, but because conservatives’ black-and-white worldview seemed to make everything clear and simple: There’s right vs. wrong, good vs. [...]
August 8th, 2022 - 5:34 pm § in Politics
What’s next, fourth trimester abortions?
Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) thinks so. In a fundraising email to supporters on Monday, August 8, 2022, he warned, “If we don’t take back the Senate, Dems will pack the courts, give DC statehood, grant abortions up to 52 weeks, and Republicans will never win again.” See that and several othe[...]
Ron DeSantis’s hypocrisy
Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis (photo, left), who wants to be president, suspended Tampa’s twice-elected Democratic prosecutor on Thursday, August 4, 2022, “for pledging not to enforce the state’s new 15-week abortion ban and for supporting gender-affirming treatments for minorsR[...]
What happened in Kansas?
Kansas voters soundly rejected Republican efforts to amend the state constitution to pave the way for the legislature to ban abortions, which is being hailed as a “massive victory” for abortion supporters. Now pundits everywhere are reading all sorts of things into it. Let’s try to[...]