For abortion and for health care generally, the decision promises to be devastating, but do not expect for a second that the GOP will stop here
Law enforcement stationed outside the Supreme Court Photo: Jacquelyn Martin/AP The Supreme Court has done its worst, overruling Roe v. Wade and engineering a health-care crisis guaranteed to affect patients across the nation. Authoring the majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization — the country’s new landmark abortion decision, upholding a Mississippi law based on medical fallacies — Justice Samuel Alito wrote that “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start.
In Dobbs, Alito and his conservative colleagues have demonstrated once again how thoroughly a minority can override the majority’s will, exploiting democratic systems to enforce its faith as law. As the Republican Party’s center moves further and further toward its fringe, it’s worth considering the other items on its agenda. .
Justice Clarence Thomas is thinking about the other privacy-based rights he might now overturn. In a solo concurring opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas argued that the majority’s ruling on Dobbs paved the way, or should pave the way, for the Court to “reconsider” certain other rulings. Roe rested in large part on the idea of an implicit right to privacy — that it protected a woman’s right to decide whether or not to stay pregnant — conferred in part by the 14th Amendment’s due-process clause.
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Who Was Jane Roe in Roe v. Wade?What was the case that many heralded but others fought fiercely against over the years? Here are some details.
Read more »
Who Was Jane Roe in Roe v. Wade?What was the case that many heralded but others fought fiercely against over the years? Here are some details.
Read more »
Who Was Jane Roe in Roe v. Wade?What was the case that many heralded but others fought fiercely against over the years? Here are some details.
Read more »
Colorado leaders react to Supreme Court decision overturning Roe V. WadeReaction to a Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade has been coming in quickly in Colorado, where a new state law ensures abortion remains legal.
Read more »
United States Supreme Court Ruling Overturning Roe V. Wade Won’t Affect Abortion Access In CaliforniaThe U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, overturned federal abortion protections established under Roe vs. Wade.
Read more »
Missouri bans all abortions minutes after SCOTUS ruling overturning RoeMissouri became the first state to invoke its trigger law banning all abortions in the state, except for in cases of medical emergencies.
Read more »