Breaking... US Supreme Court overturns Roe v Wade

Largely welcome and a positive step.

Not really though

When the Taliban took back the keys recently, everyone quickly pointed towards the women there and the rights that would be taken away from them in Afghanistan.

Now, the exact same things are happening in America. Sad times really.

It really is looking more and more likely that we're going to live through the fall of the American Empire and the second US Civil War. The really worrying bit is that it's the morons who have the guns.

This puts a lot of later decisions on the right to privacy in the firing line now too, there's no way they'll stop at abortion.

It is already being discussed.

We can only hope that this will lead to a backlash against those that caused this.

If people want their rights back, they are going to need to vote democrat.

When it comes to womens rights it is. Just look at the additional recommendations from the court on what should be banned next. Evangelical thinking is the same as Islamic, control over women and people.

In his judgement, Justice Clarence Thomas also mentioned that the court must now look at the decisions in the keystone cases enshrining rights to contraception and same sex marriages.

So the devolution of American society isn't stopping any time soon.

Exactly. What is the point of the Supreme Court if its justices can just interpret the constitution according to their personal political beliefs? The law is the law.

Isn't that what happened already in 1973?

The Federal constitution and Federal law is silent on abortion. For the law to be the law - it has to be in law first. Instead there was a vaccuum and decisions being made indirectly based on interpretation of how other laws applied to this scenario.

so you’re fine when justices do it but it favours you? Like it or not that was how Roe v Wade happened. There is no constitutional basis for it. Never was. Honestly judges stepping out of line in that decision and has caused more harm than good.

and let’s be clear this day was always coming. I had some of the biggest hardcore liberal professors in university and they even said the decision has no foundation in constitutional law, even though they full agreed with it. Democrats really need to look back at the close to 50 years and what they’ve done / not done in preparation for this inevitability.

lol are you for real? what goes on in your head that you do be inventing these scenarios 🤣

It is irrelevant to us here in Ireland. Whatever you think of the decision, legislating through the courts is the stupidest way as what's given by one set of judges can be taken away by another.

The US will be forced to confront this issue now head on and it's representatives actually do their jobs and legislate.

No, because we did essentially the same thing in 2018 - take jurisdiction over the issue away from courts and constitutions and put it in the hands of elected representatives - and it has had the polar opposite effect.

It's alright for overheal to come onto every thread though and say the exact same democratic party line every time though. It seems some want to turn this current affairs forum on an Irish site over to the American culture war.

Maybe you might try and contextualise it then on how it impacts us here?