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Daren Sweeney's avatar

The decision wasn't even over whether abortion was right or wrong, but whether the federal government, via the courts, can make it legal.

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Jeff Biss's avatar

The SCOTUS is wrong. Women have the inherent right to control their lives that includes ending a pregnancy, it is not granted by the government at any level as explained by Alexander Hamilton in The Federalist #84. The ONLY role that the courts are granted the power to play as per Article III is to ensure that rights are not infringed and thus whether a law is constitutional or not.

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Minsky's avatar

ThatтАЩs just step 1 of the conservative plan here.

We know this because theyтАЩre literally telling us:

тАШRed States eye restrictions on interstate travel for abortion servicesтАЩ

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/red-states-eye-restrictions-on-interstate-travel-for-abortion-services

For conservatives, this was just the first step towards a nation-wide, court-decreed ban on abortion on the basis of тАШlife begins at conceptionтАЩ. Next will be an interstate case to move to the next leg of the race. Whatever it takes to get a case before the Supremes where they will rule on the question of whether life begins at conception or not.

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Running Burning Man's avatar

Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Don't be stupid. The Dobbs decision self there is no :right of "privacy" arising in the Constitution related to abortion. It had nothing to do with the "federal government", with or without the courts. Don't be an idiot.

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Jeff Biss's avatar

The court had no authority to nullify the right to abortion. If they believed it to be improperly ruled as under the unenumerated right to privacy, ironically, privacy is not an enumerated right, then they should have placed it where it belongs, under the Ninth Amendment.

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Running Burning Man's avatar

besides, the Dob bs court did nothing to abortion. Did you pass the 4th grade?

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Jeff Biss's avatar

Man, you are dim.

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