DL Open Thread Tuesday May 3 2022
This obliterates all other news. I don’t have much to say about it other than to point out that some argued that the court wouldn’t do this because it would risk “stirring up” Dem voters. Those people are idiots. It is the Democrats who don’t act for fear of “stirring up” Republican voters.
Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows
The Supreme Court has voted to strike down the landmark Roe v Wade decision, according to an initial draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito circulated inside the court and obtained by POLITICO.
The draft opinion is a full-throated, unflinching repudiation of the 1973 decision which guaranteed federal constitutional protections of abortion rights and a subsequent 1992 decision – Planned Parenthood v. Casey– that largely maintained the right. “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” Alito writes
When states “BAN ABORTION” please be sure to mentally add “…for poor and middle-class people” to any headline. The wealthy will always have access to any healthcare they need or desire.
Don’t forget that Carper voted to end the filibuster on Alito’s nomination, the guy who has pushed the most for ending Roe v. Wade, and who has written the draft opinion:
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/30/politics/politicsspecial1/senate-roll-call-on-alito-filibuster.html
It was typical Carper. He said he’d vote no on the nomination. But the filibuster was the only way to stop the nomination.
Please take a moment to remember the real victim here is the norms™️.
We knew this was coming. And we should also know the court has many more far right decisions to come as they attempt to roll back the clocks 70 years. Already the red states are chomping at the bit at the mere thought of the insanity to come. Me? I’m looking elsewhere.
Judge upholds employee intimidation charge against McGuiness.
https://www.capegazette.com/article/judge-upholds-intimidation-charge-against-mcguiness/239297
Once Roe v. Wade is gone, can Brown v. Board of Education and Miranda v. Arizona be far behind?
Overturning Brown v. Board of Ed wouldn’t be worth the fight, even for RWNJs. We already have an bipartisan workaround for Brown with charter/magnet schools.
In the opening to Freakonomics, they made the case that the decline in the 1990s crime rate had nothing to do with Clinton or Guliani or gun laws or what-have-you. But instead, legal abortion meant that poor women were not forced to bear children into poverty who then grew up to repeat the cycle of crime and poverty. Thus, the decline in crime was due to the resultant decline in the criminal demographic in part, due to Roe-v-Wade.
Y’all-qaeda better be careful what they ask for. They just might get it.
Man, is this country is upside down. Businesses need to provide health care, not society as part of a shared safety-net? Who benefits from that arrangement? Not the business owners or society at large, IMHO. Now, the private sector will step in to cover what governments want to outlaw? Seriously? I am dumbfounded to the point of speechlessness.
Amazon to Reimburse U.S. Employees for Abortion-Related Travel Costs
https://gizmodo.com/amazon-abortion-scotus-supreme-court-travel-costs-reimb-1848872121
Here is how Delaware’s Abortion law works:
https://www.inquirer.com/philly-tips/delaware-abortion-laws-scotus-roe-v-wade.html