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

2022-05-02 Politico: Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows
2022-05-02 WaPo: The next frontier for the antiabortion movement: A nationwide ban$ (archive.org) The next frontier for the antiabortion movement: A nationwide ban
2022-05-04 DKos: 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

2022-05-06
- ProPub: Draft Overturning Roe v. Wade Quotes Infamous Witch Trial Judge With Long-Discredited Ideas on Rape (via) «Justice Alito’s leaked opinion cites Sir Matthew Hale, a 17th-century jurist who conceived the notion that husbands can’t be prosecuted for raping their wives, who sentenced women to death as "witches," and whose misogyny stood out even in his time.»
- Beau5C: Let's talk about why the democrats didn't codify.... (video, 8m15s, Beau of the 5th Column): this is the opening shot
2022-05-04 DKos: Alito cites racist eugenics theory to support overturn of Roe v. Wade «Alito pivots to the white savior role, actually attempting to justify that the removal of reproductive rights somehow aligns with a fight against racism—even citing the same misrepresented statistics used by pro-choice activists advocating for eugenics.» This looks like the abortion is black genocide argument again.
2022-05-03 House Judiciary GOP tweet: «Still trying to find the word “abortion” in the Constitution.»
- 2022-05-05 DKos: This Republican tweet counted on people not having read the Constitution. Whoops: many things they consider important are also not in the Constitution -- and the Constitution explicitly states that the rights it does list (among which is "«The right of the people to be secure in their persons»") should not be construed as the only rights under protection.

predictions

about what will happen after Roe is dead:

2022-05-03 Vice: Totalitarian Patriarchy Isn’t a Fantasy. It Looks Like This. (h/t via) «These stories imagine easily understood turning points at which it becomes clear that nothing will ever be the same. This is a failure of imagination.»
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

2022-05-07 Sen. Mitch McConnell said a national abortion ban would be 'possible' if Roe v. Wade is overturned
2022-05-05 Abbott threatens to challenge SCOTUS 1982 decision ensuring free public education for all kids: it looks like he mainly wants to deny it to immigrant kids, for now -- but if he gets that, poor kids will be next.
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)

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