The decision finally came down yesterday morning, and because of a leaked document to Politico, NO one was surprised or shocked.
Justice Samuel Alito and four other justices, ALL chosen by Republican presidents running on successive party platforms committed to overturning Roe v. Wade, erased the constitutional right to reproductive autonomy that the Supreme Court recognized more than 49 years ago.
Abortion, now one of the most common medical procedures, will be banned or sharply limited in about half the country.
With SCOTUS overturning Roe, the issue of abortion now returns to the individual states, where roughly half are expected to limit or ban the procedure altogether.
It is surely going to amplify the course of the Midterms in November by a factor of 20!!!
My immediate impression, throughout the day, whenever I could get a chance to watch and listen, was that during this time of radical polarization throughout American society, the rule of law is NO longer looked at with a sense of stability and continuity.
As it only can, in America, the earth started to move, throughout the day and evening of the coming political earthquake on the horizon.
Countless numbers on the Pro-Choice segment of this issue railed about how the conservative justices have broken the law and “opened the floodgates to chaos and anarchy.”
NEVER a good mix in the current era of collective tribalism across the country!!!
The politics of abortion for the better part of almost 50 years have been constantly overshadowed!!! by judicial controversy, rarely about the “unborn” and the care/welfare of the mother…ongoing.
That said, we, as a nation, are about to find out what the struggle really looks like.
Lobster on the Prairie 