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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.
“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” he writes in the document, labeled as the “Opinion of the Court.” “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”
Deliberations on controversial cases have in the past been fluid. Justices can and sometimes do change their votes as draft opinions circulate and major decisions can be subject to multiple drafts and vote-trading, sometimes until just days before a decision is unveiled. The court’s holding will not be final until it is published, likely in the next two months.
The immediate impact of the ruling as drafted in February would be to end a half-century guarantee of federal constitutional protection of abortion rights and allow each state to decide whether to restrict or ban abortion. It’s unclear if there have been subsequent changes to the draft.
No draft decision in the modern history of the court has been disclosed publicly while a case was still pending. The unprecedented revelation is bound to intensify the debate over what was already the most controversial case on the docket this term.
The draft opinion offers an extraordinary window into the justices’ deliberations in one of the most consequential cases before the court in the last five decades. Some court-watchers predicted that the conservative majority would slice away at abortion rights without flatly overturning a 49-year-old precedent. The draft shows that the court is looking to reject Roe’s logic and legal protections.
A person familiar with the court’s deliberations said that four of the other Republican-appointed justices – Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett – had voted with Alito in the conference held among the justices after hearing oral arguments in December, and that line-up remains unchanged as of this week.
The three Democratic-appointed justices – Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan – are working on one or more dissents, according to the person. How Chief Justice John Roberts will ultimately vote, and whether he will join an already written opinion or draft his own, is unclear.
The document, labeled as a first draft of the majority opinion, includes a notation that it was circulated among the justices on Feb. 10. If the Alito draft is adopted, it would rule in favor of Mississippi in the closely watched case over that state’s attempt to ban most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
A Supreme Court spokesperson declined to comment or make another representative of the court available to answer questions about the draft document.
LINK TO FULL STORY: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473
If women go on a sex strike I am sure they would even amend the Constitution. But hey... Both liberal pickmes and republican Serenas want that sausage. All women should get dildos, refuse sex, dating and any gratuitous fan service to the males, no SM presence, no SW. But that's too much to ask because it will reveal the extents of domestic slavery and sex slavery along with human trafficking.
I'm not surprised they want to overturn Roe. I assumed this would happen. I would suggest all women get on birth control now and try to get sterilized if you don't want kids. Also, consider giving up sex with men. Seriously, a $40 vibrator would probably be better than a lot of men and do the job with no emotional baggage.
Make no mistake, they'll come after gay marriage and contraception once Roe is overturned and banned nationally, if Congress and POTUS turns red in 2024. This is their gold standard: to keep women dependant on a man. To control her life choices by controlling her reproductive rights.
I'm older, post-menopausal, but if I was young, I'd completely give up sex with men and focus on my career, my finances and my well being. No man is worth the opportunity costs in a country that says a woman doesn't control her most imtimate parts.
I think a lot of women who vote right wing also are genuinely religious. The left is increasingly secular, atheist, or agnostic and religious women legitimately feel like the left is at war against religion. My next door neighbor is one of those women. To me the driving forces behind conservatism are the transition from an industrial to tech based economy that left non college educated people behind, the rapid advent of secularism, and fear of a burgeoning majority minority population.
Women's Declaration International's USA Statement on the Leaked Opinion in Roe v. Wade | WDI USA https://womensdeclarationusa.com/wdi-usa-statement-on-the-leaked-opinion-in-roe-v-wade/
Regardless of the debate itself, why is any man part of that decision? The issue is a woman only issue as until proven otherwise we are the only one experiencing pregnancy so no man should have a say in this.
The right wing of America sees women as private property to be used for child birthing and rearing, domestic labor. While the left wing of America sees women as public property to be used as holes, sex workers, cheer leaders for every male perversion, including making ourselves third class citizens beneath men who lay claim to womanhood based upon femininity performance. Both wings are actively looking to harm women: the right with repeal of abortion, the left with attempting to destroy the word woman and all the legal protections granted based upon that word. They are both looking to line their pockets at our expense: The right wing via cheap labor, the wage slave babies they want to force us to produce. The left wing via the commodifying of our bodies by breeding self loathing via the fashion, weight loss, cosmetic and now gender industrial complexes. I'm so glad we are increasingly not breeding for these evil sociopathic men anymore. Got my tubes tied! You won't turn me into a walking womb, Gilead!
Potential husbands are pervs, rent is too high, schools dont teach shit, pregnancy can kill you and/or bankrupt you, some teen psycho can shoot up your child's school, covid 19 can give your kid brain damage, there's no maternal leave.... Im sorry, why would I get married and have kids? Blanking out here on positives.
1984 is coming.
What can we do to help?
But of course Republican men will always be able to get abortions for their mistresses 🙄🙄🙄🤬🤬🤬
The elites are worried about declining birth rates. Since men are still in charge I think their sick end game is for all men to have access to womens bodies and control their reproductive rights, forcing pregnancy. Some real Handmaidens Tale shit.
I've been feeling lost and hopeless. Most women I know support these bans in the south. A year ago I found myself blocking and deleting several women from my life for supporting the abortion ban in my state. I just don't understand. I don't know how to mobilize.
On the subreddit (before it went private) some gals were talking about using rad fem methods from before roe v Wade to get abortions. There’s websites like aidaccess and plan c where you can find resources to get abortion pills. Idk if you can get them prescribed without already being pregnant, but I would start stocking up on pregnancy tests, plan b, and abortion pills if possible. When sexually active it’s probably best to test every cycle and have plan B ready to take when accidents occur or you just feel like your intuition is going off. The earlier you can catch the pregnancy the better. I am on the Nexplanon implant in my arm and I highly recommend it been using it for 6 years. Obviously, we have to really guard our wombs now more than ever. I am so concerned for lower income people who cannot work around the system with money. If you can move to a legal state I would look into that. I think these laws are just going to get worse and worse.
Laws are for the poor, drug way is on the poor, prison is for the poor, get money first.
Sadly the court's draft is not surprising. The religious right believes that women are "owned" by men and want to reassert some '50's morality floating around in their minds; the ability to control one's body is what's at issue, not some moral construct about fetuses being people made up by the religious right. Worse, the impact disproportionately hurts poor women, women of color, younger vulnerable women. If you're in these groups, getting pregnant and being forced to have a child impacts your financial autonomy.
Have a baby and poor? You're forced to take any trash job available.
Have a baby and poor? No college for you.
Have a baby and poor? You're forced to stay in an abusive bad relationship.
Have a baby and poor? Your child then contributes to the cycle of poverty, keeping fresh new trash workers in the queue. Your child is more likely to grow up poor.
Texas is now trying to make the morning after pill hard to get. Indeed, @ManSlayer commented that they're coming after contraception next. Getting your tubes tied, while not an expensive operation, won't be covered by insurance, neither would IUDs. If it really was about preventing abortion then contraception would be free and easy.
As for stopping sex (with men)? Prolly won't happen. Sure, some women might stop, but overall as a strategy to regain the right to abortion it won't work.
The best one can do is donate time or money to those groups providing abortion assistance to red state women, in a blue state participate in housing or driving women from out of state. I'd say don't forget to vote but a Republican takeover seems inevitable in the next few years - in other words, get used to it. Emboldened by this "victory" I'm sure we'll see more nasty assaults on women's freedom going forward.
Go vote go vote go vote go vote
Ladies under 30 or have less than three kids: go get the marina IUD now. It's good for a minimum of five years, is not made of copper so it's less likely to harm you, it will actually reduce or stop your period. Over 30 or have more than three kids? Go get a tubal ligation NOW. I had mine, it's freaking phenomenal, healing time was minimal, done right through a tiny incision in your navel, best decision I EVER made!
But of course they will not ACTUALLY prosecute rape, coercion and stealthing. These women have BaD jUdGemEnT but also...it nevErr hApPeNed! Of course they will also not make it punishable by law for males to abandon their children. Hahaha. I wonder when the other women will begin to wake up??