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  Kennedy retires, Roe is overruled then what? (search mode)
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Question: Where do we go?
#1
Abortion goes the way SSM goes. There becomes universal acceptance of personhood laws or at least personhood-lite because people who were once only personally against abortion see there is no "laws against laws".
 
#2
Things will just automatically reset in 1972. States that have left their bans in place will continue to do so and states that have repealed will keep them repealed. It will be illegal in most states, but will slowly be liberalized.
 
#3
It will be really bad for everyone at first, but most states voting for Hillary will follow Roe, most Trump states will keep the ban, and maybe some Obama-Trump states will have it dealt with on a case by case basis. We will have a map, like we do with Ri
 
#4
Same as above, but abortion will be litigated in elections and legislative sessions again and again for years, if not decades, in many places.
 
#5
Eventually most places will push to the center and become "Pro-Voice" where abortion will be decided on a case by case basis.
 
#6
Eventually Roe soon gets replaced as soon as we get a D trifecta back, even if its only for the first couple a weeks the pregnancy is discovered or should have been discovered.
 
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« on: June 25, 2017, 01:57:15 PM »

I personally am a pro-choice person who is lukewarm regarding Roe. Dershowitz's reasoning is fine with me. I'm not a lawyer, I just think that from a political standpoint, if the abortion rights movement had had the patience to continue slowly chipping away at state-level statutory restrictions, you'd likely have abortion legal in every state in at least some cases and you wouldn't have created the backlash and the fuel to keep the Christian-Republican Industrial Complex going.

This is not one of those "arc of history" issues like racism and LGBT rights. It will always be a 55/45 issue in one direction or the other because you're dealing with a very esoteric ethical question of what personhood is.

I've said before that while I think abortion will always be legal in some form, it's going to be a less compelling issue because medical advances will make it less necessary. You could have a situation in 50 years where a woman who has an unwanted pregnancy can have the fetus removed from her uterus, she can sign a waiver indicating she wants nothing to do with it, and it can gestate in an artificial womb until it is born, at which point it will be a ward of the state.

My issue with the pro-life movement is how uninterested they are in what happens after they refuse to allow a fetus to be aborted and it is born. They are completely uninterested in the health and welfare of born children.
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