The Republican-Owned Supreme Court Declares War on Women’s Rights

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Well, there’s no way to minimize it, this is very bad news: Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows.

The Supreme Court has voted to strike down the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, according to an initial draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito circulated inside the court and obtained by POLITICO.

The draft opinion is a full-throated, unflinching repudiation of the 1973 decision which guaranteed federal constitutional protections of abortion rights and a subsequent 1992 decision – Planned Parenthood v. Casey – that largely maintained the right. “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” Alito writes.

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EPR-radar  May 2, 2022 • 6:05:26pm

So far it is completely as I expected — Roberts a question mark, the other conservatives going for a full repeal of Roe, and the beleaguered liberals in dissent.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 2, 2022 • 6:07:08pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 2, 2022 • 6:09:17pm
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EPR-radar  May 2, 2022 • 6:09:47pm

Look at this lying motherfucker go:

“We emphasize that our decision concerns the constitutional right to abortion and no other right,” Alito writes. “Nothing in this opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion.”

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The Pie Overlord!  May 2, 2022 • 6:11:23pm
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EPR-radar  May 2, 2022 • 6:12:40pm

Since SCOTUS never leaks, we have to assume this is deliberate, most likely by Alito and his cabal.

Is the purpose to gin up a firestorm in the right wing noise machine to ‘justify’ something even more extreme, like an abortion law Dred Scott case that tries to ban abortion nationwide?

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Charles Johnson  May 2, 2022 • 6:12:41pm
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darthstar  May 2, 2022 • 6:14:07pm

So the missus is bagging change right now - because none of her cafes use cash anymore and she’s opening a new cafe in San Francisco tomorrow and city ordinance is that a cash-payment option must be available. So she’s getting about ten+ bucks in quarters, a dollar in pennies, five bucks in dimes, and a few bucks in nickels together to fill a ‘drawer’ if they need it.

Then she comes up and hands me a nickel and says, “What year is this Buffalo Head nickel?”…took me a while to see it as it’s mostly rubbed away, but 1934.

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JC1  May 2, 2022 • 6:15:28pm

re: #8 darthstar

So the missus is bagging change right now - because none of her cafes use cash anymore and she’s opening a new cafe in San Francisco tomorrow and city ordinance is that a cash-payment option must be available. So she’s getting about ten+ bucks in quarters, a dollar in pennies, five bucks in dimes, and a few bucks in nickels together to fill a ‘drawer’ if they need it.

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Then she comes up and hands me a nickel and says, “What year is this Buffalo Head nickel?”…took me a while to see it as it’s mostly rubbed away, but 1934.

Keep an eye out for the W mint quarters from 2019 and 2020 as well.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 2, 2022 • 6:18:50pm
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darthstar  May 2, 2022 • 6:19:54pm

re: #10 Backwoods_Sleuth

It’s being leaked because they’re letting people get their rage out of their systems for a day or two first…then comes acceptance.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 2, 2022 • 6:22:22pm
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DodgerFan1988  May 2, 2022 • 6:23:04pm

We are living in the real-life Handmaid’s Tale now.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 2, 2022 • 6:23:05pm
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TarHellion  May 2, 2022 • 6:23:37pm

re: #7 Charles Johnson

Depressing but certainly not surprising. And a GQP congress and presidency certainly will enact a nationwide abortion ban.

Next up: Overturning Griswold v Connecticut

Because there is no right to privacy for this court. And every sperm and egg are sacred.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 2, 2022 • 6:23:44pm

re: #12 Backwoods_Sleuth

this is why:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 2, 2022 • 6:24:59pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 2, 2022 • 6:25:36pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 2, 2022 • 6:29:18pm
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The Pie Overlord!  May 2, 2022 • 6:29:44pm

I used to consider myself “pro-life” that is, I am personally opposed to abortion and I would never have one, but I did not think I had the right to tell others what they should do about an unexpected pregnancy. I found out later that is a “pro choice” position all along.

What really turned me around, was the horrific and unnecessary death of Savita Halapanavar, who died of sepsis because doctors in Ireland were not allowed to perform an abortion unless her life was in “imminent danger”—that “danger” to be defined by politicians and not actual physicians, and then it was too late.

When a pregnant woman has an infection, or preeclampsia, time is of the essence. The situation can become dire in a matter of hours, not the days or weeks OR MONTHS(!!) it would take to obtain permission from the courts to proceed with a life-saving procedure. We do not leave critical medical decisions to people who do not even know what an “ectopic pregnancy” is.

This made me realize that the very people who call themselves “pro-life” have no interest in preserving actual life. There will be many deaths now, thanks to the so-called “pro-life” cult.

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The Pie Overlord!  May 2, 2022 • 6:36:28pm
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The Pie Overlord!  May 2, 2022 • 6:36:45pm
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Charles Johnson  May 2, 2022 • 6:37:03pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 2, 2022 • 6:38:38pm

BUT HER EMAILS!!11!!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 2, 2022 • 6:39:37pm
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BigPapa  May 2, 2022 • 6:39:57pm

My wife’s BDay is today. I’m not going to say shit to her. But I feel like the night that evil fucker won.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 2, 2022 • 6:40:56pm
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Florida Panhandler  May 2, 2022 • 6:42:29pm

re: #2 Backwoods_Sleuth

This is it.

General Strike or we go full Fascist in 2025.

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The Pie Overlord!  May 2, 2022 • 6:42:45pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 2, 2022 • 6:43:46pm
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Charles Johnson  May 2, 2022 • 6:44:20pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 2, 2022 • 6:46:16pm

niterz, lizardz

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  May 2, 2022 • 6:47:44pm

re: #30 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Sid Miller is a completely sold out Trumpster. To see him fighting with Abbott warms the cockles of my Democrat heart.

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Belafon  May 2, 2022 • 6:47:58pm

Senile old man says what:

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Belafon  May 2, 2022 • 6:48:52pm

re: #30 Backwoods_Sleuth

Turn the state over to Democrats, Sid.

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Belafon  May 2, 2022 • 6:49:30pm
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Belafon  May 2, 2022 • 6:50:21pm

re: #25 Backwoods_Sleuth

I got a like from the Reverend:

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No Malarkey!  May 2, 2022 • 6:51:48pm

re: #6 EPR-radar

Since SCOTUS never leaks, we have to assume this is deliberate, most likely by Alito and his cabal.

Is the purpose to gin up a firestorm in the right wing noise machine to ‘justify’ something even more extreme, like an abortion law Dred Scott case that tries to ban abortion nationwide?

Might have been leaked from the left to start getting Democrats energized for the midterms. We just don’t know. But I think we do know now that the reversal of Roe v. Wade and abortion becoming illegal in half the country is going to be a massive news story.

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The Pie Overlord!  May 2, 2022 • 6:53:06pm
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Belafon  May 2, 2022 • 6:54:14pm
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Crush White Nationalism  May 2, 2022 • 6:54:53pm

re: #37 Belafon

I got a like from the Reverend:

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Rightwingconspirator  May 2, 2022 • 6:56:34pm

When I was younger I did imagine a number of possible futures. I mean when I was super young Mom took me to see 2001. To find we have fallen so far as to try and reverse Roe V Wade is just heart-stopping depressing. It takes work to maintain our gains and even more to move forward. It’s like a convict in a chain gang.

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Belafon  May 2, 2022 • 6:58:05pm

We have a lot of people to get out this November:

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The Pie Overlord!  May 2, 2022 • 6:59:25pm
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EPR-radar  May 2, 2022 • 7:00:42pm

re: #14 Backwoods_Sleuth

Which is why I think the leak is by the right. I’m reminded of the likely right wing provenance of the leaks about the allegations vs. Judge Beer.

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Belafon  May 2, 2022 • 7:02:05pm
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No Malarkey!  May 2, 2022 • 7:03:02pm
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The Pie Overlord!  May 2, 2022 • 7:03:25pm
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  May 2, 2022 • 7:05:33pm

re: #43 Belafon

We have a lot of people to get out this November:

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69% opposed. We have to hang this around the GOP’s neck like a decomposing albatross. Vote out every GOPer at every level.

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EPR-radar  May 2, 2022 • 7:06:06pm

re: #47 No Malarkey!

Look at that. The Roberts court now has a solid lock on second worst SCOTUS of all time, with the only remaining obstacle to #1 being the Taney Court with its Dred Scott decision.

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Florida Panhandler  May 2, 2022 • 7:06:42pm

re: #24 Backwoods_Sleuth

BUT HER EMAILS!!11!!

Hunter Biden’s Laptop!!!

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TarHellion  May 2, 2022 • 7:07:36pm

My mom was a nurse for 50 years - from the recovery room in 1961 to administration (after getting her Bachelor of Science in the late 1970s). She did things I just assumed were normal. Things like taking out a loan for herself in the 1978 (only learning later from her that banks were saying she needed my dad to co-sign. Hah!).

Above all else she told me how rich folks prior to Roe v Wade could get a D and C (‘menstrual problems”) while poor folks were relegated to butchers. My dad processed insurance claims at his company and knew when they were for abortions.

People forget that the Southern Baptist Church initially praised the Roe v Wade decision.

Fuck the 2000 election for allowing W to appoint 2 justices, including the fascist Alito. Fuck Ralph Nader for costing Al Gore New Hampshire and Florida. And fuck this hell that women have been consigned to.

This decision will result in women being convicted of first-degree murder, let alone the desperate who will die.

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Rightwingconspirator  May 2, 2022 • 7:08:29pm

re: #51 Florida Panhandler

Hunter Biden’s Laptop!!!

Sharia Law! Fire Fauci. CRT… What’s next?

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The Pie Overlord!  May 2, 2022 • 7:10:48pm
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Belafon  May 2, 2022 • 7:12:52pm

re: #54 The Pie Overlord!

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Thomas is a pointless target unless we have the ability to convict. He would have to have a conscience to resign.

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Decatur Deb  May 2, 2022 • 7:13:20pm

re: #54 The Pie Overlord!

No big problem with codifying an individual’s right to drug use or prostitution.

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darthstar  May 2, 2022 • 7:17:56pm

So Chief Justice Roberts is now for all intents and purposes, irrelevant on the court. It’s 5 conservative, 3 liberal, and Roberts. He’ll be swing only in cases where one of the conservative justices is on the fence.

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Charles Johnson  May 2, 2022 • 7:18:12pm
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A Three Hour Tour  May 2, 2022 • 7:19:09pm

re: #21 The Pie Overlord!

I think the Loving decision is still safe from the Supreme Court until Clarence Thomas dies or retires and Ginni Thomas is no longer a prominent Republican activist/agitator.

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Charles Johnson  May 2, 2022 • 7:20:54pm

Meanwhile, I’m starting to think Fedex is just fucking with me because they can.

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EPR-radar  May 2, 2022 • 7:21:50pm

re: #57 darthstar

So Chief Justice Roberts is now for all intents and purposes, irrelevant on the court. It’s 5 conservative, 3 liberal, and Roberts. He’ll be swing only in cases where one of the conservative justices is on the fence.

That was what I was expecting once Barrett got on the court. Roberts is smart enough to know that subjecting abortion rights to the death of a thousand cuts (i.e., Kennedy’s entire career) is an effective way of restricting abortion while keeping it a live issue for the GOP base as the left sleeps.

Now the left might wake up, and I’m sure hoping for the full Adm. Yamamoto scenario vs. the Republican menace.

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Belafon  May 2, 2022 • 7:23:02pm

re: #59 A Three Hour Tour

I think the Loving decision is still safe from the Supreme Court until Clarence Thomas dies or retires and Ginni Thomas is no longer a prominent Republican activist/agitator.

I think Loving is safe. I’m 60-40 thinking Obergerfel is safe. Too many men would be affected.

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Belafon  May 2, 2022 • 7:23:46pm
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Decatur Deb  May 2, 2022 • 7:24:40pm

re: #62 Belafon

…Too many men would be affected.

Real God-fear’n American Men?

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No Malarkey!  May 2, 2022 • 7:27:52pm

re: #62 Belafon

I think Loving is safe. I’m 60-40 thinking Obergerfel is safe. Too many men would be affected.

The religious right is coming for Obergefell, just as surely as they are for a nationwide abortion ban. Then Lawrence and Griswold are next.

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No Malarkey!  May 2, 2022 • 7:29:29pm

re: #63 Belafon

The reason Obama had such a large majority was because there was still such a thing as conservative Democrats in red states. He didn’t have 60 votes in the Senate for sweeping progressive reform.

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EPR-radar  May 2, 2022 • 7:29:50pm

re: #65 No Malarkey!

The religious right is coming for Obergefell, just as surely as they are for a nationwide abortion ban. Then Lawrence and Griswold are next.

Brown is the ultimate target. Movement conservatism started as a racist reaction to the Brown decision, and they haven’t deviated from that starting point one bit since then.

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wrenchwench  May 2, 2022 • 7:31:37pm
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No Malarkey!  May 2, 2022 • 7:32:05pm

re: #67 EPR-radar

Brown is the ultimate target. Movement conservatism started as a racist reaction to the Brown decision, and they haven’t deviated from that starting point one bit since then.

Brown is already pretty much a dead letter. All you have to do is draw school districts the right way, because forced busing isn’t a thing any more.

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darthstar  May 2, 2022 • 7:32:32pm

Wake me up when they get to the 13th Amendment. I want Kevin McCarthy mowing my fucking lawn and picking up my dogs’ shit.

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No Malarkey!  May 2, 2022 • 7:40:13pm

In Kentucky, women will die, because our trigger law only allows abortion to save the life of the mother, and of course doctors will hesitate due to the fear that zealous prosecutors will second guess their judgment and try to put them in prison. Fanatical forced birthers believe an abortion is never necessary to save the life of the mother.

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The Pie Overlord!  May 2, 2022 • 7:42:57pm

re: #71 No Malarkey!

Fanatical forced birthers believe an abortion is never necessary to save the life of the mother.

Savita Halapanavar.

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EPR-radar  May 2, 2022 • 7:49:05pm

re: #72 The Pie Overlord!

Savita Halapanavar.

They don’t care, because “fanatical forced-birther”.

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Ace Rothstein  May 2, 2022 • 7:52:10pm

A lot of Republican women have had abortions.

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William Lewis  May 2, 2022 • 7:59:12pm

re: #62 Belafon

I think Loving is safe. I’m 60-40 thinking Obergerfel is safe. Too many men would be affected.

Brown vs Board of Education is dead though. Part and parcel of destroying public education in general.

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The Reverend Sam Hill  May 4, 2022 • 9:53:59am

re: #34 Belafon

Hey waitafugginminute. I now get my SorosGram® directly from the Evil Overlord himself, thanks to the 5G chips in the COVID-19 vaccine, and he clearly said just five minutes ago that we want the Welfare Queens to keep pushing out more future Democrats.


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