Death of Roe

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The "Death of Roe" refers to the now-expected overturn of the Supreme Court's landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision [W] which made it illegal for states to outlaw abortion. This decision has been affirmed by SCOTUS countless times since, and yet the six "conservatives" now on the GOP-packed bench see no problem in overturning what has been well-established precedent for five decades.

Pages

• /Matt Gaetz on "overeducated women"

Links

the leak

• https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473
• https://web.archive.org/web/20220503155418/https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/05/02/abortion-ban-roe-supreme-court-mississippi/
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/4/2095824/-The-content-matters-far-more-but-evidence-says-a-rwnj-gave-us-the-draft - speculation about motives for the leak: hypothesizes that it was a right-winger who didn't want to leave any room for the right-wing justices to back down (this doesn't make sense to me, though, since SCOTUS justices are carefully isolated from the need for donations etc.)

analysis

• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/4/2095784/-Alito-cites-racist-eugenics-theory-to-support-overturn-of-Roe-v-Wade

predictions

about what will happen after Roe is dead:

• https://girlcock.club/@maeve/108240660916709765 "penumbra of rights"
• https://twitter.com/BrynnTannehill/status/1521481078376181760
• https://twitter.com/amaditalks/status/1521632749219680257 "deeply rooted in history"
• https://twitter.com/NoLieWithBTC/status/1521319660125306880 "deeply rooted in history"
  • https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1521296185977417732
• https://twitter.com/elliotcwilliams/status/1521315457613107201 - specific decisions likely to be overturned

fallout

• 2022-05-04 Can Republicans Stop Patients From Leaving the State for an Abortion? Some Are Willing to Try. Texans flee to Oklahoma: Oklahoma passes a copycat law. Missouri had already drafted a similar law back in March, anticipating this decision. «...the Court has no understanding that a post-Roe world is going to be one where jurisdictions fight each other. [...] if in a state like Missouri, a zealous prosecutor goes after an Illinois provider who has been providing abortions on their citizens, the courts are going to have to figure out: Can a state do that if the provider is completely following Illinois law?”» This is fine with the GOP; they feed on social chaos.
• Louisiana:
  • https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1522044847254872064 «Here is Louisiana’s new fetal personhood bill—which House Republicans just voted out of committee 7–2—making abortion a crime of homicide “from the moment of fertilization” and allowing prosectors to charge patients with murder.»
  • 2022-05-04 'We can't wait on the Supreme Court': In Louisiana, abortion could become a crime of murder
  • 2022-05-05 Louisiana Republicans advance bill that would charge abortion as homicide$

discussion

• https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/uh40k6/roe_vs_wade_overturned/

actions in response

• https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/108240668529566205 «In response to a slew of GOP-backed efforts to curb access to abortion, Amazon announced it will pay up to $4,000 in travel expenses annually for non-life-threatening medical treatments, including abortion» https://go.nowth.is/3ybYe6v (full link)

miscellaneous

• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/3/2095554/-Susan-Collins-whines-about-completely-predictable-SCOTUS-abortion-flip
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/3/2095654/-Roberts-is-suddenly-concerned-with-betraying-confidences-and-breach-of-trust
• https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/3/2095673/-Statement-from-Obama-on-the-draft-Supreme-Court-decision-to-overturn-Roe-v-Wade