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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDobbs' Dilemma: Why Kavanaugh's Ideal of "Scrupulous Neutrality" in Dobbs is a Pipe Dream
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Most legal commentators believe the battle over abortion is about to shift decisively from the Supreme Court to state legislatures. The idea is that Roe v. Wades demise is a foregone conclusion, and the courts funeral oration for Roe in Dobbs v. Jackson Womens Health will be the end of the road for the courts involvement in abortion rights. Recent legislative developments are spotlighting a different prospect: that conservative religious pro-life state lawmakers wont so easily let the court leave the field. Extreme pro-life legislation that threatens pregnant womens lives and health, the sexual choices of all Americans, and the boundaries between church and state may force a continuing role on the Court. Dobbs will crucially preview the courts attitudes toward those threats.
Not satisfied with Roes elimination, some faithful conservative legislators are now advancing anti-abortion laws thatlike other anti-abortion measures already on the booksendanger pregnant womens lives and health. One eye-popping recent example from Missouri, described by a Planned Parenthood affiliate there, involves bills introduced in the Missouri House and Senate whose terms endanger patients by potentially criminalizing health care providers for treating ectopic pregnancies.
Ectopic pregnancies1% to 2% of all pregnanciesinvolve a fertilized egg that implants outside the uterus, commonly in the fallopian tube. If the pregnancy grows, it can rupture the fallopian tube, leading to potentially life-threatening internal bleeding.
Thats why a measure like the proposed Missouri billsnow happily altered, though still capable of reemerging elsewherewould, if enacted, stop ectopic pregnancy abortions at the cost of health consequences and even death sentences for pregnant women. And it would force these costs without saving fetal life. An ectopic pregnancy cannot survive outside of the uterus.
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Dobbs' Dilemma: Why Kavanaugh's Ideal of "Scrupulous Neutrality" in Dobbs is a Pipe Dream (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Mar 2022
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in2herbs
(2,942 posts)1. Perhaps it time to push the question "What will Rs do to rile up their base when Roe is
overturned and no longer a federal issue?" How likely is it an R will be elected to any state or federal position in a state that prohibits abortions?
When (and if) the USSC interferes with Roe it's time to make the Rs in these states pay their fair share of taxes instead of taking more $$ than they give the feds.