SCOTUS overturns Roe megathread (pg 53 - confirmed)

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Maddow said they've shown it to 4 former SCOTUS clerks who all agree it appears to be a legitimate work product of the court.

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Gerstein says the opinion as written appears to swing for fences on overturning Roe. It is not a walk back or a soft pedal or a chipping away. The opinion emphasizes that is is limited to abortion only and the conclusions regarding privacy should not be applied to other areas like gay marriage. There are specific phrases and passages that show the handiwork of the 5 justices believed to be on board. There appear to be nothing in it to address Roberts's concerns regarding the integrity of the court.

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Isn't Manchin pro-life? Even if you could convince him on the filibuster, there's that too.

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There's no way they'll uphold Biden forgiving student loans.

Who has standing to sue?

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Well I mean red states like OK have more or less already flouted Roe with their recent laws. All this will do is make that more commonplace in solid red states.

Also it's interesting - I get it's a hot topic, but I always thought trans issues were what generated multipage threads on here. However, this thread was posted like 3 hours ago - less than that - and it's already on its fifteenth page. Other threads about transgenders usually have a hard time making it past 6-7 pages, and that's weeks or even months after they get posted. Still, this news is groundbreaking and it is worthy of discussion (though still shocked at how much is happening).

Again, people, look at what happened at Ceausescu's Romania after he outlawed abortion. It didn't stop abortion. It just pushed into back alleys where a lot of women died because they didn't have access to the care they needed.

Abortion isn't a need.

It is for, say, a 13 year old impregnated as the result of rape or incest. OK has a law that says such a 13-year-old cannot get an abortion.


UPDATE: And in the time I wrote this post, 10 new replies were posted...

When RGB died that thread grew really fast too I recall. The 1/6 thread on 1/6 was one of the fastest growing threads on here since the server upgrade. I think only the 2020 election thread moved faster.

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Wonder how big the crowd there will be tomorrow.

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An interstate ban is infeasible even if it were upheld. You have to convince a jury beyond a reasonable doubt that she had an abortion (vs. a miscarriage, still birth, etc.), and you can't do that if the other state won't provide any evidence that an abortion took place.