Ms. Harmeet Dhillon appears on the Tucker Carlson show to discuss the Supreme Court ruling that sends the issue of abortion back to the individual states for determinations of legal issue by the legislative bodies closest to the people. {Direct Rumble Link} Dhillon provides a clear-eyed and pragmatic review of the Roe -vs- Wade case nuance overall. WATCH:
It will be interesting to see the look on the faces of all the professional politicians from both party’s after they actually read the Court’s Majority Opinion. It will range from OK to utter consternation because the core of the court’s decision had very little to do with the fate of the unborn, even though the decision did save many of the unborn in SOME STATES.
The core of the Judicial Opinion that really has the democrat party power brokers and many professional politicians in tizzy is that decision in this case centers on REMOVING THE COURT FROM LEGISLATING and WRITING LAW.
This decision is a major step BACKWARDS for democrats as well as many professional politicians. Because it represents a step in the direction of returning to the principles of Separation of Powers as well as Checks and Balances written into the US and State Constitutions.
State Legislatures and Congress cannot hide behind the courts to shirk their assigned responsibilities like the cowards many professional politicians (from both parties) have become.. To a democrat this introduces the horror of elected representatives following the will of the voters because allot of those voters do not agree with the democrats in power.
For better or worse, the real work to remove abortion or tragically sustain it still remains rightly upon the shoulders and conscience of the electorate and their representatives who are supposed to write the law.
Very true. That means the next target is Congress handing over legislative authority to the Executive with every broad stroke law starting with “The Secretary shall…” so that the details entered into the CFR are actually written by career, unfirable commies in said department.
Looks like they might have to actually read those bills before the vote on them. Fingers crossed they still rEmember how to read!
While you are entirely correct in your analysis, that will not stop (or EVER stop) activist jurists from writing law as they see fit. They secretly detest the Constitution for the liberties and freedoms it gives individuals, and the limitations it places on the federal government.
But those Constitutional limitations will not for a nano-second stop the likes of Affirmative Action appointee, Ketanji Jackson Brown, or the wise Latina Sotomayor, or the other rug-munching legal sophist, Elena Kagan–and of course, any future Democrat or RINO nominees–from engaging in the most tortured and political of “legal” decisions.
I agree. Yet, a step has been taken but the Senate can undo this step with the next Judges they appoint.
The other interesting thing this ruling points out is that the Supreme Court has utterly failed in the “supervisory” obligation over the District Courts and by extension down to the State and DC Courts. That was supposed to be purpose of assigning a Justice to oversee each District Court.
Again, you make outstanding points, particularly your last paragraph. I guess my question is (and it’s not rhetorical, I’m genuinely curious), what tools of “supervision” do SCOTUS justices have for supervising lower court judges?
Federal judges can’t be removed except by Congressional impeachment, and I’m unaware of any more substantive penalties or disciplinary procedures except some kind of public statement of reproach.
I doubt any leftist lower court judge will be moved by a statement of admonition from a SCOTUS justice.
Razorfist has been arguing in favor of impeaching judges for weeks.
Hard to do when Republicans don’t control the House, and the Dems and RINOs control the Senate.
Or even when the Rino’s are in control of the ‘whole shebang’! Lack of political will?
The actual power lies with Congress “The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.”
and “In all the other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make.”
I know. I keep hearing how polls show most Americans are pro-abort, but somehow that won’t translate into law.
However, I don’t see much stopping the Congress from trying to enact 50 state plus territory law on this.
Very well said!
Comparison of the Left’s reaction to the same statement in two different opinions:
Dobbs:
“Nothing in this opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion.”
The Left’s reaction:
OMG!! THEY’RE GOING TO OUTLAW CONTRACEPTION, SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE, THE WORLD WILL END!!!
Heller:
“nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.”
The Left’s reaction:
“EVERY gun-control law on the books now and ever created in the future is SET in STONE, and cannot be challenged! Heller said so!!!”
they SHOULD outlaw same-sex marriages….Oberfell was based on the same flawed “right to privacy” reasoning as abortion……this ability SCOTUS has assumed to create rights never before found in the US Constitution at a whim to satisfy political leanings needs to be stopped
Isn’t that what Thomas argued in a concurring opinion?
Pro-Abortion Laws will be slow rolled if passed at all for a single reason.
This is an instantaneous, flashpoint issue that puts ignorant rioters in the streets on demand. It sustains the need for division the In-Party Needs to sustain their way of exercising power.
For the same reason, laws meaningful limits to the 2nd Amendment, with absolute due process safe guards, will never be passed. Before some ignorant uneducated slob posts a copy of the 2nd Amendment … there is not a single law that exists today (Local to Federal) that does not abridge a right or rights in the Constitution. The purpose of the Courts and Judges used to be to draw the lines limiting the law. The US and State Constitutions have a Judeo-Christian heritage and even in those religions there were Judges who did the same v/v the laws those societies followed.
Christian-Diest is more appropriate. Juden-Christian is revisionist nonsense.
He got it right with Judeo-Christian heritage
Prior to birth control pills, there WERE other methods of birth control other than abstinence and abortion. Some are still in use today like the rubber and the diaphragm. About the same time as the pill, methods such as foams and intra-uterine devices (IUDs) were developed. The initial birth control pills were one formulation for all. There are draw backs to each and every form of contraceptive on the market today. First and foremost among those draw backs, for all but abstinence, is the possibility of failure to prevent pregnancy This is more prevalent in some methods than others. Another draw back is that all methods do not work for all women. Some women have anatomies that do not work with some of these methods. Some women have body chemistries that do not work very well with some of these methods. Some women have mental disabilities or lack of self-control that preclude use of some methods.
Regardless, no one should assume that any of the methods is 100% effective. They are not. At the same time, all of these methods including abstinence are worth the effort to prevent an unwanted pregnancy. Abortion should not be relied on as the only method of prevention by anyone. The sanctity of human life should be preserved in the body of law at all times whether that life is weeks old or many decades old and enfeebled.
This ruling returns the power to the states as it should. Decentralization is the basis of self-governance.
https://rightwirereport.com/2022/06/25/truth-be-told-podcast-stand-with-the-unborn-june-25-2022/
Waaay back in the old days (1980s) Planned Parenthool actually provided a good service: contraception. There was very little cost. There was a PP office on just about every college campus. This was before PP became the abortion mill that it is now.
I read this morning that currently there are IUDs available that will not only stop an unwanted pregnancy (if they’re inserted within 5 days of unprotected sex) but they will also prevent pregnancy for up to 2 years. There is no excuse for anyone that doesn’t want to have children to get pregnant. There are just too many options available to prevent an unwanted conception.
Abortion was supposed to be legal and rare. It is still legal but it is far from rare. And, most recently, the abortion lobby has pushed to allow the murder of babies up until the moment of birth. For most people this is not only just wrong but horrifying.
With great power comes great responsibility. The great power here is the power to conceive and have children. The responsibility is to only conceive when you intend to carry to fruition. If you don’t want to have children demonstrate that you understand the responsibility and proactively insure that you don’t get pregnant. It is not difficult and there are too many options available for any woman to say they can’t. The hysterics we see are from irresponsible ignorant women.
I wouldn’t automatically trust any new ‘contraceptive’ devices that genocidal globalists put out there these days, including all pills and injections promoted for children and young adults of child bearing age.
Our healthcare industry has been compromised by globalists, to put it mildly.
The safest birth control is for PARENTS to instill information and moral *values* at an early age to discourage casual sex outside of marriage. After that it’s down to the condoms, which the globalists probably didn’t sabotage, since they do exhibit a preference for depopulation, after all.
Hopefully, their condoms are not constructed of plastics that permanently diminish testosterone levels.
I believe that any elective abortion, if allowed at all, should require a concurrent sterilization.
Mothers that would rather be murderers oughtn’t ever be allowed to conceive another victim.
If any ask about consequences for the father, I say if he paid for, encouraged, facilitated, or merely acquiesced to the abortion he should be sterilized as well, and should be required to present himself for his procedure at the same place and time his progeny is to perish at his pleasure.
I think this is harsh on all parties. Birth control methods are not 100% effective nor are all methods usable by all women. Certainly, if it is a frequent occurrence, sterilization should be considered perhaps in a court of law.
Only a man who forces a woman to abort his child should be eligible for such sterilization.
Tubal ligation is technically NOT reversible, unlike men’s “cuts”. It is necessarily more intrusive. There are instances of the tubes reconnecting decades later, they cauterize as well as tie these days. Doctors are rightfully hesitant to remove the ability to reproduce from a young woman who has not had a child. They do not want to be sued, if she changes her mind. Even a D&C can harm the uterine lining sufficiently to prevent pregnancy, if the ob/gyn is not careful. So, no, I do not think a woman should be able to have such an operation without weighing the consequences. Most physicians are reasonable about this, they want to keep their patient’s business.
There is something “magical” about child bearing. I know, I know, it’s all detailed in the biological sciences but still, it is a wonderful process.
At least for us dad’s… all we gotta do is keep the stream of fresh doughnuts and what not…. and drive to the maternity ward at the most inopportune moment.. but still, to see the baby grow within mommy is awesome.
I agree with the writer… if a woman doesn’t want to get pregnant, there are ways to PREVENT the pregnancy. We did it that way. Given the immense power a woman has over conceiving and creating a new life she should wield it with extreme care…
for the record NO method of contraception is 100% effective…..you get unplanned and unwanted pregnancies even when on the BEST method of prevention….this still offers NO excuse to eliminate a completely innocent human being because of your bad luck
Well, there is one, but that always results in playing the rape card.
This is the “pregnancy as punishment for recreational sex” argument. It’s going to take you where you do not want to go.
The Supreme Court passed the issue to the states, and that is just fine. But we need to do some deep thinking about the principles and ideals seemingly in conflict. And people of faith, for whom abortion is clearly wrong, need to express principles which make sense to agnostics too.
I think “my body, my choice” is a compelling slogan — especially since around the world and throughout history women so often have been denied basic autonomy. In the issue of abortion what, besides the life of the embryo/child, counterbalances her individual autonomy?
One becomes pregnant by engaging in the act of procreation. Procreation is not just an individual act; it is immersion in the ancient, ongoing process of life replicating itself. An individual woman did not create herself, she is part of something ancient and much greater than herself. It is beyond individualism, just as yelling fire in a crowded theater is beyond individualism.
Can this be articulated in law by the great legal minds ? How can we throw the whole weight of the law behind giving women full autonomy, so that no pregnancy is coerced, and then require women to be as responsible for procreation as good soldiers ?
One argument I’ve found persuasive, on the science side, is the fact that the baby has its own DNA, different from the mother’s, scientifically proving that it is an individual life that cannot be terminated without murdering a human person.
And on the simply empathic side, the evidence that babies feel pain from abortion is the second powerful argument.
Neither one of these arguments can be refuted by screeches that this is all somehow persecution by the “religious right.” I see that nonsense everywhere, including from most of my own family.
Remember that Biden finished nearly at the bottom of his law school class. He has the sort of legal mind that was left in the dust when the professor challenged law students to make the other side’s argument as vigorously and deftly as one makes one’s own. Biden, when cogent, has a third-rate mind whose education is useful only to those who want to place people in power that they can manipulate. But with Biden they get the trifecta, first, low morals, second, a limited brain and third, senility and the sideshow that entails. This is a circus that needs to be shut down, because they certainly are not going to listen (or understand) a viewpoint that conflicts with their own.
He wouldn’t listen even if he were coherent, and he’s never been cogent.
Stupid enough to go on Facebook today. It astonishes me how many of my “friends” are despondent, angry and vengeful over the courts decision. Many of them are parents, religious, many “Catholic.” Again, this isn’t about religion. So many pointing fingers, telling us to go get the kids in foster care (mind you that NONE of the children in foster care were aborted.) Telling us to volunteer to adopt all the babies (adopted as many as I could!) But literally the finger of their responsibility to ME. Not many on the side of life are brave enough to speak up. To me, though, this is about life and life only. I believe an unborn child is a solitary human being that deserves protection and the chance to live-regardless of how they got there. Rape or incest? Disgusting acts by disgusting monsters. But very rare and that doesn’t mean the child should suffer.
Anyway, I am going to let this be a happy day, because maybe somehow, somewhere, this will allow at least one innocent baby a death sentence.
my daughter is rabid pro-abortion and hates me for my position….saw a FB post from her on my wife’s page bewailing the tough life of some foster children and how abortion was an option….for those kids if they get a vote, I am pretty sure they would choose the tough life over NO life
Rape and incest are injurious to the woman without conception. Carrying a child to term can add to their injury emotionally, mentally and/or physically. Some very young children have been impregnated. In some of those cases, the child’s body can not undergo childbirth without harm to the mother. There are also mentally, physically and./or emotionally incapacitated women, who have been impregnated in nursing care environments. I think that abortion needs to be an option for these extreme cases. I also think that the parent’s of woman in nursing care environments should be encouraged to have their tubes tied to prevent unwanted conceptions.
None of this belongs in the Supreme Court or Any Govt. Agency! If they want to set a precedent for a specific issue then correctly name what it is!
The Satanic Democrat Cult sealed the fate of Roe after 2 high profile events were not just ignored by cult leaders Pelosi and Schumer but embraced:
(1st) Philly Dr Kermit Gosnell was found guilty multiple counts of murder for performing horrific “born alive abortions” in 2010 and sentenced to life in prison
(2nd) Pediatric Surgeon, Gov Ralph Northam (D), approved and described how “born alive abortions” would be performed (by him):
Northam said, “the infant would be delivered, the infant would be kept comfortable, the infant would be resuscitated if this is what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physician and the mother.”
In short– to abort, cite a Court.
The media is running wild with misinformation, in regards to Justice Thomas’s concurring opinion! Apparently the media has banded together and is spreading this misinformation. Or should I say propaganda? Thomas plainly says in his opinion, “(right to engage in private, consensual sexual acts) ; and (right to same sex marriage) ARE NOT an issue. Then he goes on to say, “the Court’s abortion cases are unique”.
Nearly every major media source is claiming Justice Thomas’s opinion indicates he is coming after gays next!
Nearly every major regime-propaganda media source is claiming Justice Thomas’s opinion indicates he is coming after gays next!
There, fixed it for ya. Carry on! 😉
The violent threats by leftists, including Democrat politicians, seriously needs to be investigated.
It starts with Chuck Schumer’s screaming rant on the Supreme Court steps in 2020. He threatened Justice Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh at the top of his lungs. Why does he get a pass?
Maxine Waters is constantly howling threats and inciting people to take physical action against those she disagrees with. When will she be held accountable for her vile remarks and promoting violence?
Arizona leftist mobs breached the Arizona Capitol with legislators inside. How many are being charged, imprisoned, and investigated?
Major cities, once again, see protesters using flame throwers, assaulting journalists, attacking police, and burning buildings.
This abuse is reminiscent of stormtrooper thugs from the past. Why is it condoned and encouraged?
Who is holding these out of control thugs accountable?
Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife have been slandered and threatened.
(His personal history and accomplishments are amazing.) When does this patriotic couple receive accountability from the feds and congress for the vicious impugning of their characters, and the horrific threats against their lives?
Several justices are not safe in their own homes. They are being repeatedly, systematically harassed. They had to be relocated (hidden) for their own safety.
These racist leftists are throwing violent temper
tantrums. There are no MAGA groups infiltrating them and setting them up — unlike the setup of most of the J6 citizens who attending a rally in support of fair elections.
These assaults and threats are much more violent than anything that occurred on J6 (well except for Capitol police killing unarmed civilians).
Come on Congress, when are you going to address all the above incidents of insurrection?
Going forward— is it okay to slander and physically assault those we disagree with politically?
Are we in North Korea, communist China, or back in the Third Reich?
I thought I lived in America.
This isn’t my America.
When the hell are you feckless sellouts —AKA politicians— going to actually do your damn jobs?