We do not know whether this draft is genuine, or whether it reflects the final decision of the Court.
With that critical caveat, I want to be clear on three points about the cases before the Supreme Cour
First, my administration argued strongly before the Court in defense of Roe v. Wade. We said that Roe is based on “a long line of precedent recognizing ‘the Fourteenth Amendment’s concept of personal liberty’ … against government interference with intensely personal decisions.” I believe that a woman’s right to choose is fundamental. Roe has been the law of the land for almost fifty years, and basic fairness and the stability of our law demand that it not be overturned.
Second, shortly after the enactment of Texas law SB 8 and other laws restricting women’s reproductive rights, I directed my General Policy Council and White House Counsel’s Office to prepare options for an Administration response to the continued attack on abortion and reproductive rights, under a variety of possible outcomes in the cases pending before the Supreme Court. We will be ready when any ruling is issued.
Third, if the Court does overturn Roe, it will fall on our nation’s elected officials at all levels of government to protect a woman’s right to choose. And it will fall on voters to elect pro-choice officials this November. At the federal level, we will need more pro-choice Senators and a pro-choice majority in the House to adopt legislation that codifies Roe, which I will work to pass and sign into law.
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It is a draft so it could change, but the Chief Justice has confirmed it is genuine (and he’s reportedly absolutely furious!)
Indeed.
How dare we peons learn the truth.
We would have learned the truth eventually once it was official. I can understand Roberts being upset by an internal leak. What I don’t understand is why those outside the Court who would be happy on the merits are instead raging over the fact it was leaked.
Just more Putinist lies from fascists like Mr. McConnell and Mr. Cruz.
It wouldn’t surprise me if the leak came from the majority side of the SC, in order to provide a strawman for GOP extremists to rage about — hoping to distract America from this tearing down of a fundamental right.
It’s interesting to me that as I watch/audit Fox News, they are giving this very little coverage at all.
Assuming this is ultimately the ruling, do they really think people aren’t going to notice?
Putinist GOP gaslighting has been extraordinarily effective until now — I see no reason why they should not try it again. People took no notice of the actual content of the Mueller report because of similar gaslighting about a strawman (“No collusion”).
Several generations of Americans have spent most of the last five decades offering a variety of bogus rationalizations for not bothering to vote. Among the motivations for that is that the various hard-fought victories they benefited from did not affect them.
I’m talking about people who’ve never been forced to fight in a war they didn’t get to vote about. People who’ve never been prosecuted for attempting to obtain contraception. People who’ve never been prosecuted for seeking an abortion. People who’ve never been prosecuted for practicing oral or anal sex with their consenting adult partner. People who’ve never been prosecuting for marrying or even having sex with a partner of a different race.
All these are now on the table.
Perhaps this will be enough of a wake up call to get young people to the polls even if the candidates don’t meet their standards of extreme perfection.
EVERY American should understand that the fundamental right under attack in the “logic” of this draft opinion is the right to privacy.
In this instance, the result is to strike down the right to abortion.
As night follows day, the next — and many would say ACTUAL — target is the right to artificial contraception. It was, after all, the attempt to enforce laws about artificial contraception, interracial marriage, and sodomy that the Supreme Court used to establish the right to privacy.
The Roman Catholic Church in America has been a long-term ally of the decades-long GOP attack on women. That faith tradition opposes artificial contraception with the same passion that it opposes abortion.
Anybody who thinks the right-wing war on women will stop with abortion does not know or admit the reality of the misogynist beliefs of the extremist Christian faith traditions — including the Roman Catholic Church — in America.
The American Taliban (sorry, but that is the only thing that comes close) is now starting to impose its peculiar superstitions on each and every one of us.
Reproductive rights touches on people’s lives the way the Mueller report does not. If this changes:
I’m pretty sure people are going to notice. I have a hard time imagining it going further down that path. Many really do believe a fetus is life that should not be murdered, but that argument doesn’t exist for the other things.
Many of those same people believe equally passionately that artificial contraception is an equally grave sin.
At least some of those people also share a belief that sodomy (in this context meaning oral or anal sex) is a mortal sin.
At the heart of this issue is the question of whether ANY secular state has the right to impose any person’s passionate beliefs — even if they are in a majority — on non-believers.
This really comes down to whether we do or do not have a secular government.
There is a reason why the same entities who so aggressively push this agenda also strive with equal passion to attack provisions ensuring separation of church and state.
Not nearly as many, though. There’s a logic to a fetus being life that just plain doesn’t exist for one’s preferred sexual activities.