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Thanks for the summary. For some of us, you outlined the obvious, that women will seek an abortion regardless of the law. Those who are successful tend to do better emotionally, economically, and the children they bring into the world tend to do better overall as well. Some people are concerned about the statistics. That more black pregn…
Thanks for the summary. For some of us, you outlined the obvious, that women will seek an abortion regardless of the law. Those who are successful tend to do better emotionally, economically, and the children they bring into the world tend to do better overall as well.
Some people are concerned about the statistics. That more black pregnancies end in abortion than live birth tells me that those women have less access to contraceptives, or less understanding about how to use them ("The Pill" requires attention to timing as to when it's taken daily, and there are drugs and even foods that can cause changes in efficacy), resulting in more unwanted pregnancies.
I'm concerned that SCOTUS is now willing to create law that virtually all of the Justices stated was settled, simply because they've achieved a majority. While they didn't file the suit coming before them, they have systematically created the environment to see it advance, and telegraphed their intent. Obviously, they don't understand the implications.
The Right took a page out of the decades-long legal groundwork the Inc. Fund did in the South to prepare the ground for Brown and Brown II. They have industriously been sending cases forward for quite a while, but most didn't make it past the appellate Circuits.