Texas, which bans anti-sodomy laws, and Obergefell vs. Alito’s draft opinion also calls into question Lawrence v. There’s no reason to think that the Court’s authoritarian ambitions will stop there, either. State anti-abortion language is often unclear and medically muddled doctors and providers can’t be sure which procedures are allowed and will have to choose between saving pregnant people’s lives and facing draconian punishments. But the newest state voting laws force victims of sexual assault to carry pregnancies to term as well.Įxceptions to protect the life of the mother have also been eroded. In the past, abortion restrictions have generally had an exception for cases of rape and incest.
Nor is there any humanitarian exception from GOP absolute power. This is not what freedom or liberty looks like. There is no space where theocratic, authoritarian rule does not extend. They believe that the state has the right to control people’s bodies, inside and out. They are determined to force pregnant individuals to carry fetuses to term. Republicans want to use their unpopular minority rule to impose draconian restrictions on personal freedom and autonomy. Not surprisingly, the embrace of an authoritarian system is done in the name of frankly authoritarian outcomes. The GOP dream is one-party rule in which only votes for Republicans count. Led by former president Donald Trump, the GOP has passed laws that allow Republican-controlled states to meddle in election administration, potentially nullifying Democratic victories. That in turn allowed states to reinstitute new versions of Jim Crow era restrictions like poll taxes and voter suppression laws intended to keep Black voters, who vote overwhelmingly for Democrats, from the polls.Īggressive Republican gerrymandering in states like Wisconsin allows the GOP to hold supermajorities in the legislature even when they lose the popular vote statewide. A conservative Supreme Court, placed in power by the systemic bias towards the GOP, gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013. Republicans have used their disproportionate power to tear apart democratic institutions and further entrench minority rule. Republicans have only won popular vote majorities in presidential elections once in the last 30 years. But it’s significant that the party that supports abortion rights has consistently received more votes.
Voting patterns aren’t a referendum on any one issue. In line with that finding, 59 percent of Americans said they were concerned that states were making it too difficult to get abortions 39 percent said states were making it too easy. In 2019, a Pew poll once again found that 70 percent of Americans want to preserve Roe only 28 percent said they wanted the decision completely overturned. But public opinion polls have long shown conclusively that the public supports abortion rights. But the decision cannot be called democratic.Īlito’s draft opinion is meant to give states sweeping control over people’s bodies and intimate lives. Republican justices claim that they are embracing the original intent of the founders.
Wade, and with it much if not all of the Constitutional right to privacy, according to a draft opinion leaked to Politico. The Supreme Court intends to overthrow Roe v. Supreme Court Abortion (Copyright 2022 The Associated Press.
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