Antiabortion demonstrators outside the Supreme Court building in Washington in January. By Megan McArdle Megan McArdle Columnist Bio Follow Columnist May 16 at 2:20 PM Supporters of abortion rights are fond of saying that Roe v. Wade is “settled law.” The phrase is supposed to convey a finality that borders on irrevocability. But, of course, what the Supreme Court gives, the Supreme Court can take away.
No legal case has done more than Roe to define how the left sees the Supreme Court: not as a somewhat boring final arbiter of words recorded in law books, but as the oracle that tells us what rights the Constitution ought to guarantee. Consequential cases such as Brown v. Board of Education and Miranda v. Arizona , concerning racial segregation and the rights of police suspects, respectively, dealt with matters that clearly involved the Constitution.
That view of constitutional interpretation works precisely as long as you happen to agree with the judicial interpreters. When the other side of the political spectrum gets wise and starts stocking the courts with judges who share their opinions — Catastrophe! Ruination! Citizens United!
asymmetricinfo Yeah. But neither should have ‘Conservatives’. Nor MEN. And?
asymmetricinfo Abort Christianity...an ugly religion
asymmetricinfo Putting women in prison for abortion just another form of voter suppression
asymmetricinfo That’s a stupid opinion. Of course they should have. That is their job/purpose. The protection of individual rights. When they reconsider Roe they will literally be deciding just who’s individual rights supersede the others. Thus does life begin at conception, heartbeat, breath?
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asymmetricinfo These arguments over 'judicial tyranny' were soundly condemned as 'extremism' and 'conspiracy theory' when they were offered from the right. EAT CROW, you leftist hypocrites. But glad you're seeing a glimmer of light.
asymmetricinfo They won't have a choice.
asymmetricinfo Court decisions aren’t enough to protect our rights. We need a law that guarantees our reproductive autonomy - access to birth control and abortion, guarantee that nobody can be coerced into abortion or forcibly sterilized, etc.
asymmetricinfo Yeah, because they pulled the 'right' to one out of their asses and based it on no actual constitutional precedent. It's bound to fall....
asymmetricinfo if the supreme court had not intervened on abortion there would never have been roe.v.wade
asymmetricinfo Didn't we actually figure that out on Monday?
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