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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe "soft" overturn of Roe v. Wade exposes how far-right John Roberts has let the Supreme Court go
At the stroke of midnight on Wednesday, the Supreme Court suddenly overturned Roe v. Wade.
The move was quiet and it very well may be temporary (they could still issue a short decision any minute now, or not) but make no mistake, a Roe overturn is exactly what it is. But headlines across the country aren't coming right out and saying so, because the Supreme Court used a dastardly legal manipulation to let states ban abortion without actually issuing a straightforward decision to end abortion protections.
Earlier this summer, Texas passed a law banning abortion at 6 weeks. Six weeks may sound like a luxurious amount of time to make a decision, but in fact, it amounts to a near-ban on all abortion. That's because in reality, "six weeks" is only two weeks after the missed period, and that's only in women who have highly regular periods. Critically, it is also before many doctors will even do the procedure, for safety reasons. So it's estimated that 85-90% of abortions in Texas are performed after the 6-week mark.
To make it worse, the law is written in such a way as to make wife beaters, Aunt Lydias, and embittered incels the primary enforcers of the ban, establishing what amounts to a public bounty hunter system. As legal analyst Imani Gandy explained at Rewire News Group, the law "allows anyoneliterally anyone, including strangers!to file a lawsuit against a person they suspect is going to either provide an abortion or help a person obtain an abortion." This means that not only can the abusive ex-boyfriend sue the doctor who helped his victim escape his clutches, but he can now also go after the friend who put her up and paid for her abortion.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-soft-overturn-of-roe-v-wade-exposes-how-far-right-john-roberts-has-let-the-supreme-court-go/ar-AANZmeS
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(10,184 posts)He and Mrs Justice Roberts exploited innocent Irish women with unwanted pregnancies so they could purchase trafficked infants. Since human trafficking for profit (aka "infant adoption" ) by Americans was illegal in Ireland, those two trafficked Irish infants were smuggled to South America, where a "private" trafficking of infant flesh for profit could occur.
https://underneaththeirrobes.blogs.com/main/2005/08/the_roberts_ado.html