JUST IN | US Supreme Court ends constitutional right to abortion

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The US Supreme Court on Friday ended the right to abortion in a seismic ruling that shreds half a century of constitutional protections on one of the most divisive and bitterly fought issues in American political life.

The conservative-dominated court overturned the landmark 1973 "Roe v Wade" decision that enshrined a woman's right to an abortion and said individual states can permit or restrict the procedure themselves.

"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 court said.

The court, in a 6-3 ruling powered by its conservative majority, upheld a Republican-backed Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks. The vote was 5-4 to overturn Roe, with Chief Justice John Roberts writing separately to say he would have upheld the Mississippi law but not taken the additional step of erasing the precedent altogether.

The justices held that the Roe v Wade decision that allowed abortions performed before a fetus would be viable outside the womb - between 24 and 28 weeks of pregnancy - was wrongly decided because the US Constitution makes no specific mention of abortion rights.
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US Supreme Court ends constitutional right to abortion | News24

The US Supreme Court on Friday ended the right to abortion in a seismic ruling that shreds half a century of constitutional protections on one of the most divisive and bitterly fought issues in American political life.
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This is a great decision. Should be left up to each State to decide. Voters in each State will vote for what the State does. If you are not happy, move to another State that supports your views. This is real democracy.
 
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Headline is misleading.
The real story is a that the previous SCOTUS decision in 1973, which invented from thin air a decision that there is a constitutional right to abortion, is now reversed. The US Constitution enshrines no such right, and the now-overturned Roe v Wade and Casey v Planned Parenthood court decisions are overturned.
 
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Supreme Court Overrules Roe v. Wade in Dobbs Decision

WASHINGTON, DC – The Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade on Friday, holding in the Dobbs case that the Constitution does not include a right to abortion and returning the issue of abortion laws and regulations to state legislatures.
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WASHINGTON, DC – The Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade on Friday, holding in the Dobbs case that the Constitution does not include a right to abortion and returning the issue of abortion laws and regulations to state legislatures.

Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the Supreme Court in Friday’s 5-4 decision:

Abortion presents a profound moral question. The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion. Roe and Casey arrogated that authority. We now overrule those decisions and return the authority to the people and their elected representatives.
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Roe was handed down in 1973 in a 7-2 decision, holding that the U.S. Constitution includes a constitutional right to abortion, despite the fact that abortion is not found in the text, structure, or history of the Constitution, and the nation went more than 180 years without ever noticing it existed. It has been one of the most divisive legal issues in American history.

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Note the important words: "We now overrule those decisions and return the authority to the people and their elected representatives."
 
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Arthur said:
Headline is misleading.
The real story is a that the previous SCOTUS decision in 1973, which invented from thin air a decision that there is a constitutional right to abortion, is now reversed. The US Constitution enshrines no such right, and the now-overturned Roe v Wade and Casey v Planned Parenthood court decisions are overturned.
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Does there need to be an explicit provision? I mean can't they rule like here where the death penalty was ruled unconstitutional because it would be inconsistent with the right to life?
 
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https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1540339085230968834

The world so many here on MyBB yearn for... Women in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant with two black eyes, contraception illegal and gay or trans folks illegal too.

Gilead.

Anyway...

"At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10 000 men to guard the past." - Maurice Maeterlinck
 
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Long term this could actually reduce the amount of drama around this issue because competition between states will motivate the direction these laws take over time. Popular ideas will spread and less popular ideas will get overturned by the natural evolution these things tend to take. Roe v. Wade just added fuel to the fire by further polarizing the debate and caused firmer heel digging which led to more moderate common sense positions being drowned out by the ensuing culture war tribalism.

Exactly the same thing is happening with the gun debate.

Most people support common sense restrictions, but you wouldn't know it because everything is presented as a choice between two extremes. To stray in any way from the extreme is to betray your tribe in the culture war, and so nobody is willing to be reasonable or moderate in the negotiation.
 
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greg0205 said:
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1540339085230968834

The world so many here on MyBB yearn for... Women in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant with two black eyes, contraception illegal and gay or trans folks illegal too.

Gilead.

Anyway...

"At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10 000 men to guard the past." - Maurice Maeterlinck
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a much better world would be Avenatti-stan hey Greg?

one where you can slander a sitting president by paying a prostitute to spread all kinds of lies all the while beating the shyte out of your own woman

greg-topia!

:ROFL:
 
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