Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization
“Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, No. 19-1392, 597 U.S. ___, is a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court in which the Court held that the Constitution of the United States does not confer any right to abortion, thus overruling both Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey.” Wikipedia
The ‘Dobbs majority’, Republican appointees all, has rendered the fatal blow to the Constitutional guaranty and protection of a woman’s right to self determination and the right to choose.
In their infinite wisdom in the process of selecting jurists to sit on the Supreme Court, the party of small government and conservative judicial restraint has brought the country beyond autocratic rule…
This group of six conservative judicial political activists have given the anticipated decision in Dobbs which overturns Roe v Wade.
The ruling is nothing short of totalitarian in its scope and impact…
Control and determination of a woman’s reproductive function now belongs to the state….
In his concurring opinion, Clarence Thomas has said, in essence:
“You ain’t seen nothin’ yet…”
The overwhelming majority of the general population is against this ruling and many pledge to fight it in the streets if need be…
We would do well to heed the words of perhaps the greatest Republican, who understood the nature of the most dangerous threat to Democratic self government:
“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
06/26/2022 @ 3:01 pm
Coincidence this decision was presented and adjudicated before Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s term begins.
06/26/2022 @ 3:31 pm
Jayne, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is replacing retiring Justice Stephen G. Breyer, who is one of the three justices who dissented from the majority opinion and ruling.
Her presence on the Court would not have made a difference re the final outcome.
Thanks for stopping by and commenting…
06/26/2022 @ 8:30 pm
What is getting interesting about the rightward move is that a lot of corporate America is not going along with it. Dick’s Sporting Goods was the first company I saw that allocated up to $4,000 to any employee, spouse or child to travel out of state for an abortion. A lot of companies have followed suit (I don’t know about the dollar figure), including Morgan Stanley and Disney.
Corporate America mostly likes polarization of wealth, even though it’s ultimately bad for business, but they don’t like the rights of their employees being attacked. They were very instrumental in killing the Confederate flag. They’re already reacting to abortions but that won’t hold a candle to what will happen if the Court goes after gay marriage, and you know this batch wants to. They all have gay employees they want to keep and if they’re in a state that doesn’t recognize gay marriage their recruitment will instantly go in the toilet.
One very important principle in American politics, true since the Revolution, is be careful about screwing with money. This shift to the right does that.
06/26/2022 @ 8:32 pm
I don’t think I can edit comments any more. Not to worry, I’ll comment twice.
Another issue that these states will run into, and abortion will affect this strongly because of the age group, is college recruitment.
06/26/2022 @ 9:41 pm
Kosh, your comments provide clear evidence of the fact that the majority didn’t think their decision all the way through…
06/26/2022 @ 11:41 pm
They were too busy with an agenda to bother.
06/27/2022 @ 12:36 am
Kosh, I would like to think that the ‘agenda’ of six conservative judicial political activists wouldn’t include giving the American public a taste of totalitarianism.
This is quite possiblyi due to the fact that these people are either too ignorant or too stupid to know what totalitarianism is…
06/27/2022 @ 7:20 pm
By “these people” do you mean the Justices or their public? Actually, it doesn’t matter. I think both are too stupid.
06/27/2022 @ 10:26 pm
Kosh,
My remark is about the failure of the Supreme Court majority in Dobbs to fully understand the nature, scope, meaning and impact of the consequences of their decision….
06/28/2022 @ 7:12 pm
Angsty America: sea of love …
06/29/2022 @ 11:07 pm
Hey jpH,
Check this out:
Constitution of the United States of America
AMENDMENT XIII
Section 1.
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Passed by Congress January 31, 1865. Ratified December 6, 1865.
An astute constitutional originalist or textualist might easily conclude that forced pregnancy is subsumed into the phrase; “involuntary servitude”.
This would make the ruling in the Dobbs case unconstitutional on its face as violative of the 13th Amendment.
The current Democratic Congress needs to do away with the filibuster and codify Roe before it’s too late…
We simply cannot afford to wait fifty years for the ruling in Dobbs v Jackson to be overturned…
‘Love’ has nothing to do with it, angsty or otherwise…
06/30/2022 @ 7:26 pm
Thanks, resident Juris Doctor Powell. I’ll drop you a line from Warsaw. Power to the people, LO;}!
06/30/2022 @ 8:30 pm
jpH,
Don’t you think that Warsaw has an overabundance of refugees and refugee mail?
06/30/2022 @ 11:14 pm
I’ve at least 12,490 hours of logistics — why not share? The road is long, Ron. UNHCR estimates there are nearly 100 million refugees. Distribution of essentials has got to be paradoxical.
07/01/2022 @ 7:02 am
jpH,
“I’ve at least 12,490 hours of logistics — why not share?”
That’s your prerogative…