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4. That is the same as overturning Roe in the real world

Wed Dec 1, 2021, 12:56 PM

Dec 2021

I listen to the oral argument and I am really depressed. Again you are wrong in your analysis. Doing away with the viability test will effective overturn Roe in the real world First it would be 15 weeks, then 12 and finally it will end up at 6 weeks which effectively eliminates Roe

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Prediction: SC does NOT overturn Roe v Wade... [View all] brooklynite Dec 2021 OP

So the new limit will be that states can ban abortions after 15 weeks? Polybius Dec 2021 #1

As good a result as you could hope for. I read that the only abortion clinic in MS Tomconroy Dec 2021 #2

They won't formally overturn Roe mcar Dec 2021 #3

That is the same as overturning Roe in the real world LetMyPeopleVote Dec 2021 #4

It will be a DE FACTO overturn, as opposed to DE JURE, but bullwinkle428 Dec 2021 #5

They might be able to do so... FBaggins Dec 2021 #6

Yes, I think that's what this looks like. ismnotwasm Dec 2021 #7

That's what all the experts are saying on the TeeVee. beaglelover Dec 2021 #8

How can you have a limit when you don't or can't know you're exceeding the limit? bucolic_frolic Dec 2021 #9

A riveting presumption Torchlight Dec 2021 #10

It is the analysis from the Washington Post JohnSJ Dec 2021 #13

And I still have no guess as to the outcome. Torchlight Dec 2021 #16

That limited window is effectively overturning Roe V wade. Even assuming someone only JohnSJ Dec 2021 #11

I'd say... electric_blue68 Dec 2021 #14

Thank-you. You are absolutely right. It won't impact the affluent JohnSJ Dec 2021 #15

No problem 👍 electric_blue68 Dec 2021 #17

+1 betsuni Dec 2021 #35

Gary Johnson took more votes from HRC than Stein did IMO. StevieM Dec 2021 #38

Are the fetuses going d_r Dec 2021 #12

Something like that, sorry, not sarcastic, because as science progresses, 'viability' changes, elleng Dec 2021 #20

When I had a amnio 20 years ago...I would not have been permitted to have an abortion Demsrule86 Dec 2021 #25

I believe it will be overturned. Bok_Tukalo Dec 2021 #18

This is settled law. If they tinker with this then they are gldstwmn Dec 2021 #19

No. The loss of Hillary in 2016 was devastating, because some refused to either vote third party or JohnSJ Dec 2021 #21

It seems from your moniker that you are a man and I think you are wrong...women will hand the GOP Demsrule86 Dec 2021 #23

Yes, I am a guy, who is very pro-choice and women's rights, worker's rights, Civil Rights, JohnSJ Dec 2021 #30

Agree. betsuni Dec 2021 #37

Says a man. gldstwmn Dec 2021 #28

What kind of sexist inuendo is that? In 2016 it was pretty obvious what would happen to the SC if JohnSJ Dec 2021 #31

I appreciate your comments but I feel like you (and others) are failing to recognize the dominant StevieM Dec 2021 #39

Comey was the coup de grce so to speak JohnSJ Dec 2021 #40

I think it would be the end of the court if they overturn Roe...as Sotomayor said there is nothing Demsrule86 Dec 2021 #22

Dave Weigel: Very good chance of Roe being overturned in June, and decent chance of ... mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2021 #24

I agree. I don't think Roberts will allow an outright overturn of Roe... Wounded Bear Dec 2021 #26

That restricted version is effectively the end of Roe. 15 weeks is an insult, and the fact that the JohnSJ Dec 2021 #32

I don't disagree at all...nt Wounded Bear Dec 2021 #33

I know, I am just blowing off steam, not toward you at all JohnSJ Dec 2021 #34

Roberts is just one vote of nine. former9thward Dec 2021 #36

It means anti-choice wins FakeNoose Dec 2021 #27

I don't see how looking backwards helps this in any way. gldstwmn Dec 2021 #29

Distinction without a difference. Voltaire2 Dec 2021 #41