5/3/2022, 11:37 pm
Let's drop a bit of a truth bomb here.
An as-yet-unidentified person affiliated with the Supreme Court has leaked a draft of an as-yet-undecided Court ruling regarding Mississippi abortion legislation, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, No. 19-1392. This draft holds the potential to overturn Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992).
Cue the Legion of Hysterical Fools.
Sophia Bush of CBS's Good Sam informs us:
Rob Reiner thunders:How nice that these ideological nuts who don’t care about democracy or the will of the people — who overwhelmingly support a woman’s right to choose — can feel safe inside whilst they eviscerate our rights and condemn women to die.
Alyssa Milano shrieks (I think four exclamation points equals a shriek):Two unelected people have decided that millions of American women will no longer have a right to make decisions regarding their reproductive health.
Lily-White Actress Amanda Duarte immediately played a race card:Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows!!!!
Former President Obama intoned:I do wonder how these white supremacist lawmakers would feel if their little white daughters were raped and impregnated by black men.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) demagogued:Illegal abortions inevitably pose grave risks to their health, their future ability to bear children, and sometimes their lives.
So exactly what happens if this draft decision is ultimately handed down as written and Roe and Casey are overturned?Several of these conservative Justices, who are in no way accountable to the American people, have lied to the U.S. Senate, ripped up the Constitution and defiled both precedent and the Supreme Court’s reputation – all at the expense of tens of millions of women who could soon be stripped of their bodily autonomy and the constitutional rights they’ve relied on for half a century.
Abortion is not automatically outlawed, as many of these hysterics and demagogues imply or outright claim.
The responsibility for deciding laws and regulations regarding abortion is removed from the federal level and placed on the state level.
In states with a strong pro-abortion population, the people will elect legislators who will codify abortion rights as they see fit in the state without federal interference. The legislators will be held accountable at the ballot-box by the voters and will not be able to hide behind a distant court ruling.
In states with a strong anti-abortion population, the people will elect legislators who will codify abortion restrictions as they see fit in the state without federal interference. The legislators will be held accountable at the ballot-box by the voters and will not be able to hide behind a distant court ruling.
In states with a population divided almost equally on the question of abortion, politics will be lively.
Sounds like democracy at work.
Instead of the "unelected people" that so frighten Rob Reiner making decisions about abortion rights, elected public officials, elected on a local level and reflecting the local values and mores of the districts they represent, will decide where the boundaries are on this controversial issue.
Sophia Bush's fears of "ideological nuts who don’t care about democracy or the will of the people" running rampant over the will of the people will be allayed. Activists on both sides of the argument can attempt to persuade their representatives to legislate in favor of their position.
Brace yourselves, folks. The shrieks and cries and prophecies of doom everlasting are only beginning. Keep a level head, examine the facts, then make your decisions based on them.
