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A not very reliable news source has leaked that The US Supreme Court has the votes to repeal Roe v Wade.
The leak consists of an opinion authored by Justice Alito.
Good! I says.
Roe v Wade is bad law.
It is emanations and penumbras and not a solid case.
It's making shit up, whole cloth, that isn't actually in the Constitution and getting the result desired.
Allowing abortions because a right to privacy? I'm not finding it in the 4th Amendment.
A better case would have been under 9th or 10th Amendment grounds... mostly 9th after the 14th.
But since all three branches have been actively eroding the 9th and 10th amendments for more than a century, nobody wants to even try to make a landmark case from there.
They should.
The text of The Constitution was supposed to be plain-text. It does what it says, it says what it does.
The list of things that the Federal government is allowed to do is plainly stated and not very long. This short list is further restricted by The Bill of Rights. The 9th and 10th Amendments were supposed to be the most brutally restricting amendments to Federal power. They're literally, "unless we said you could, you can't," clauses.
The individual state constitutions are supposed to be similarly written and operated.
There's a whole lot of how things are done every day in America that should not be.
That we've been doing it this way for a long time makes me think, "justice delayed is justice denied," rather than saying that "well we've done it so long it will be hard to change..."
So it will be difficult! Let's get to work!
PS - Pro-Life People: Please be to showing me where the text says Government was empowered to make any laws concerning abortion. Bearing in mind that you, too, cannot use emanations and penumbras to make your case either. Especially sticky for you is that 1st Amendment "freedom of religion" thing and Christianity having a religious position on the topic. As soon as God enters the frame, Government is forbidden to act on it. You have to sell your position from a secular direction without evoking God or quoting The Bible. And some of y'all just can't do it.
PPS - That The Court is even, allegedly, talking about it is probably another example of liberals not taking the win and shutting up. Roe legalized abortions before a certain point in the pregnancy but allowed restrictions later in the term because as the fetus gets further along it gets more baby-like and thus more recognizably human. The liberals didn't accept the win for where nearly all abortions occur and are now in danger of losing the "right" altogether. Again.
PPPS - Even with a full ban on abortion, Liberals, you still get a choice. You can CHOOSE to use an aspirin for birth control and suddenly you're not getting pregnant and thus not needing the procedure.