Roe v. Wade to be overturned?

Very stressful and uncertain. Wouldn't this have to go to the federal system and eventually SCOTUS because it's a diversity case (i.e. parties of different states)? If that's the deal, Justice Amy Covid Barrett would be granted the opportunity to write the majority opinion.

 

Thanks to their previous actions, this SCOTUS is now more politically aware than almost all of them before. I wouldn't count on a MAGA landslide in an abortion case this term.

 

Pretty sure she just wants to mourn her loss and not lose the ability to have a child in the future.

 

Or lose her uterus, which is very much endangered by this delay.

 

That's not true. The state has plenty of say in medical decisions.

 

I should think it probably won't be too long before some woman involved in an unwanted and physically threatening pregnancy (or someone acting on their behalf), roadblocked from the option of abortion by certain highly prominent officials, will exercise the much lauded second amendment solutions to the situation. Certainly actors on the other side of that philosophical divide have never been shy about utilizing such measures.

 

I miss the days when Michael Gee argued that SCOTUS wouldn't take extreme action re: abortion because they're politicians and would do whatever to save their backsides. That worked out well re: Dobbs.

 

She has left Texas in order to get proper medical care.

 

The woman from Texas has left the state seeking medical care.

 

And will probably face severe legal consequences for doing so when she returns, right? Along with anybody and everybody who helped her.

 

They can try, but it will become a cause celebre.

 

Not only CAN they try, many of them have made a great public point to promise they will do more than that. Many of the Shiite anti abortion states are introducing legislation which will criminalize everybody involved in transporting a pregnant woman out of state to an abortion-legal location (including the woman herself of course). In some cases this could include subjecting individuals out of state -- even if they never physically set foot in the subject's abortion-banned home state -- to criminal charges for violating the anti abortion laws.

Just wait for the cases when Texas wants to extradite people out of New York and California for conspiring to aid women to travel across state lines to get abortions. An armed squad of Texas Rangers marches into a NY hospital to haul out doctors and nurses in cuffs.

In other words, the Fugitive Slave Act simply adapted to apply to abortion.

In part, this is why this shit will never work (and they know it) -- as long as abortion remains legal anywhere in the continental US, women seeking abortions will travel to those states to get them.

They can attempt to slap on all these peripheral legal hurdles to make it tougher and more expensive, but the only way to shut down abortion completely in the US is to get a SCOTUS life-at-conception ruling which unconditionally outlaws it nationwide. That's their ultimate goal.