Abortion debate

If you like a good mystery, trying to identify the individual who gave Politico reporter Josh Gerstein an early draft of the Supreme Court decision that would overturn Roe v Wade is right up your alley.

The Supreme Court spoke for the first time Tuesday following the leak of a draft opinion that seemingly signals the overturning of Roe v. Wade, with Chief Justice John Roberts saying an investigation has been ordered into how it was published.

In a statement, the court confirmed the draft that was leaked is “authentic” but stressed it does “not represent a decision by the Court.”

A leaked initial draft majority opinion suggests the US supreme court is poised to overturn the Roe v Wade decision that legalised abortion nationwide, Politico has reported.

The unprecedented leak stunned Washington. It holds the potential to reshape the political landscape ahead of US midterm elections in November. Here is some reaction to the report.

‘The Right To An Abortion Is Sacred’: Democratic Lawmakers Renew Calls To ‘Codify Roe’

The Supreme Court has written an opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision that provides women with a constitutionally protected right to an abortion, a report said.

The draft majority opinion was written by Justice Samuel Alito and provided to Politico.

“Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” Alito writes in the 98-page draft opinion, obtained by the outlet.

This story out of Texas seemed to blow up last night on social media and it’s sure to have both sides in the ongoing abortion debate up in arms. While it’s unclear if this case is actually directly related to the recently passed abortion laws in the Lone Star State (it doesn’t look like it, at first glance), that will clearly be part of the ongoing protests. A 26-year-old woman named Lizelle Herrera from the Texas border town of Rio Grande City was arrested on murder charges and held on a half-million dollars bail yesterday. She is accused of causing “the death of an individual by self-induced abortion.”

Temperatures that hovered in the low 20s didn’t deter tens of thousands of marchers from congregating in Washington, D.C., on Friday. 2022 marks the 49th anniversary of the infamous Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, which forbids states from restricting the controversial practice of abortion.

“Hell no, we don’t need Roe!” chants outside the Supreme Court as the March for Life 2022 continues here in DC pic.twitter.com/PicrJSmi71

— Brendan Gutenschwager (@BGOnTheScene) January 21, 2022

On the eve of Friday’s March for Life, the annual pro-life demonstration that’s expected to draw over 50,000 attendees from across the country, Catholics for Choice projected a pro-abortion message onto the largest Roman Catholic Church in North America.

Already arrayed against one another on any number of fronts, Americans are massing for a new battle along an old fault line.

On one level it’s about abortion, an old and intractable debate. But with a new ruling in the works that could produce a fundamental shift in U.S. laws, a second argument is underway: does the Supreme Court have the right to change its mind?

Some Conservative MPs and others are voicing their opposition to the government’s plan to eliminate charitable status for pro-life pregnancy centres, with some expressing concern that other organizations could be affected when the policy is implemented.

“They’re falsely claiming that these pregnancy centres are actively working to spread misinformation about abortion and putting health and safety of young people and vulnerable women at risk. That’s their argument when it’s antithetical to the reality, the truth of the whole situation,” Conservative MP Cathay Wagantall told The Epoch Times.

I wonder what O’Toole thinks?

Justices in the Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Wednesday raised substantial doubts about the jurisprudence behind the 1973 case establishing abortion rights in the United States, Roe v. Wade , during arguments over a Mississippi law banning abortions after 15 weeks gestation.

Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, combined with arguments on Nov. 1 over a Texas anti-abortion law , represents the most direct challenge in decades to Roe, which made abortion a national right rather than letting states decide the issue. The rulings, which will be issued by June 2022, have the potential to sway politics substantially, with the underlying issue a motivating one at the ballot box for opponents of abortion and supporters of abortion rights.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Both sides are telling the Supreme Court there’s no middle ground in Wednesday’s showdown over abortion. The justices can either reaffirm the constitutional right to an abortion or wipe it away altogether.

Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that declared a nationwide right to abortion, is facing its most serious challenge in 30 years in front of a court with a 6-3 conservative majority that has been remade by three appointees of President Donald Trump.

“There are no half measures here,” said Sherif Girgis, a Notre Dame law professor who once served as a law clerk for Justice Samuel Alito.