10 key passages from Alito's draft opinion, which would overturn Roe v. Wade

[elleng]

The wording of the court’s ultimate ruling and the line-up of justices who support it could change. Here are 10 important passages in the draft opinion.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/abortion-draft-supreme-court-opinion-key-passages-00029470

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https://www.golocalprov.com/news/breaking-roe-v.-wade-overturned-according-to-report

[Karadeniz]

1. Not a lawyer, but I found Aleto's thinking very stretched. Like a judge recently said about GOP

rationales for overturning the election, they're an insurrection in search of a legal basis...or something like that. The points made by Aleto read like legal reasoning for personal preference.

[DonCoquixote]

2. a translation from the conservative bulls**T

"We therefore hold that the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion. Roe and Casey must be overruled, and the authority to regulate abortion must be returned to the people and their elected representatives.”

Translation: we want to empower churches, corporations to coerce weak state legislatures, which they can they can bribe,coerce, or use "second amendment" remedies of "lone Gunmen"

[slightlv]

8. Computers aren't mentioned in the Constitution, either

Should we round them all up, throw them all to the bottom on the sea? Go back to pen and paper for all correspondence and transactions? In fact, I see no mention of electronics at all in the Constitution... mayhap all electronics are nothing more than sinful magic from the devil, himself. As a country, perhaps we should rid ourselves of these horrible contrivances, and go back to ink and quill and feathers as normal people do.

[HighFired49]

13. Right(s)!

The Constitution also does not confer the right to medical care, nor to take prescription medicines (among a million others). I can see where this crap-headed thinking is headed. This decision will not only affect abortion rights. These fascists have thrown open the door for "conservative" state governments to make all sorts of laws that infringe on our un-enumerated rights, even more than they already have; like the freedom to travel, if the person is seeking an abortion in a state where it's legal. Shall we ask the Supreme Fascists about un-enumerated rights? IXth Amendment? What's that? Nah, we don't care bout that! We might lose everything that is not specifically enumerated with these fascists asses in place. What a mess.

[Dawson Leery]

3. Sammy The Bull strikes again!

[bucolic_frolic]

4. I see this as using government to enforce a specific set of religious beliefs

I doubt this is about law, or judicial procedure. Are they examining every other law to see if they can overturn it? This is about religion. This ruling will enforce religious beliefs on the nation as a whole. The people who don't want to be forced to bake cakes for gay weddings because of their religious beliefs, or issue marriage licenses for LGBTQ couples for the same reasons, are now telling women what to do with their own bodies!

[slightlv]

9. Absolutely!

This is what blows me away the most, that people don't see this and scream bloody murder about it. You cannot legislate morality, but they're damned determined they're going to do just that. Abortion now, contraception next. They'll be a whole domino set of knock-on effects that we've been thru before if you're my age. Credit out the window. If you've got a credit card in your name, that'll be cancelled. The car or house in your name? That'll have to be transferred to your husband, brother or father, or other male relative. If you still have a job, it'll be looked at closely to ensure that the child you don't yet have will not be harmed by whatever work you do. Entire categories of job opportunities were closed to us because of the theoretical harm it could do to an unwanted, undreamed-of fetus, regardless of whether or not you were of childbearing age. These were only some of the ways we were locked out of careers as women. The unnamed, unwanted fetus in the mind of some male, somewhere, held more importance than the living, breathing, active, thinking woman who stood right in front of you at that very moment. And THAT'S the world they're desperately trying to bring back into being, once again.

For years, they tried to get herbs off the market. They didn't know what they did, and they didn't know what women knew about those herbs. They especially didn't like herbs not in plastic pill form. They especially didn't like them in freeform, from the garden format. And that's one of the real reasons they didn't like midwives, and they didn't like women who called themselves herbalists or witches. There was knowledge there that they didn't have; and they didn't want to study to learn... and they didn't want anyone else to have that knowledge.

And so, we are among the next in line they'll be coming for. Not just us witches. No... anyone who doesn't adhere to the Christofascists line of belief. You can be a good Methodist. You can be a good Episcopalian. Hell, you can be a good Catholic. But you're not going to be good enough for them! You'll still be lumped in with the rest of us Witches and Muslims! You just watch...!

[bucolic_frolic]

12. And the fallout is what's not in the Constitution, isn't. Period.

Environmental protection? Social Security? Regulations? Not in the Constitution. Maybe they respect laws Congress passes, or maybe they find a way around those too!

[onecaliberal]

5. Imagine the dumb ass who couldn't wear a mask because it was her body.

Is it still her body?

[fierywoman]

7. This +1,000...

[slightlv]

10. Only if she's a stupid Repug! N/T

[onecaliberal]

11. Wait until their daughter's start dying from illegal abortions. Because they will.

[FBaggins]

6. Alito writing the decision means that it's likely 5-4

With Thomas assigning the pen it probably means that Robert’s is writing the dissent.