US Supreme Court to overturn Roe vs Wade

The phrase “elections have consequences” that we hear from America isn’t just a clever slogan and this is a real and major example of it. I mean Donald trump got to appoint three justices to the Supreme Court during his term in office who were all on a list by the federalist society of potential appointees who said they’d overturn roe vs wade. I mean this in reality can’t be that much of a shock.

Shows land of the free is just an empty slogan. Rights can be taken way and are only temporary

The majority of people support it though.

Abortion won’t stop.

Has to be a positive for the democrats though, if it happens. They basically have very little that gets their base energised. They were basically only the anti Trump party in the last election and minorities make up about 2/3 of abortions so this is something for them to rally their base.

Let's not forget what this is really about; increase birth rates, decrease wealth, make more people struggle financially, make it harder for them to get good jobs and have to take minimum wage jobs (often more than one) to make ends meet and be more susceptible to enduring worse working conditions.

It's cheap labour force. That's all it is. The vast majority of people making the decisions about these laws would happily and easily use abortion services if they needed to. But opposing abortion rights makes them seem "Christian" enough to be more electable, despite being some of the least Christian people imaginable in how they treat and view anyone who they see as being beneath them.

To be fair, most females in the US have freely available access to birth control (and it would seem that most are on it). Obviously mistakes happen or whatever. So it isn't quite women being forced to have children.

Anyway, I'm off to buy a few shares in coat hanger manufacturers.

(dark humour maybe but reflects the point that there is still going to be a demand for it)

Those stats are the stats for a person who uses only that method to prevent getting pregnant in a year. It's not quite the same as a 1-in-100 chance every time you get the ride (I'm sure you know, but many get confused). And people can combine different protections anyway. Still, my point was only to the implication that women were going to be almost forcibly rounded up and forced to push out baby after baby. That's a bit dramatic. At least in the US they have fairly robust procedures for chasing down the fathers.

From a skimming of the reports, it seems they will strike down the Constitutional right to it. There won't be an automatic and immediate ban of it. It would just put it back to the lawmakers in their respective states (In Ireland, the Constitution now explicitly delegates the provision of termination of pregnancy to Legislation) . I would imagine that if this judgment is real in the US, there would be a later constitutional challenge at the SC to try to have abortion outlawed explicitly. But I didn't gather that the OP's links were suggesting that was at play yet.

Not exactly, also the God bothers are going after birth control too at state level.

Either way I very much doubt it helps women who were raped or raped and coerced into getting pregnant.

It would be open to take a case all the way to the Supreme Court to have something akin to "right to life of the unborn" recognised as a constitutional right. If that was done and succeeded, then the States could not legislate to allow for it.

That's fine. If you are only interested in your own agenda against "god botherers" then push that and distract from what others consider to be the actual issue if you want.

A person would have to be retarded not to know that one way to rally the "other side" in certain US States is to make something about religion or to try to slur them for it. It would be easily discernible from your actions whether you actually cared about the substantive issue or whether it just happened to be a convenient tool for a different agenda.