Bye bye freedom

[kathygnome]

Justice O'Connor resigned. That eliminates Roe v. Wade, possibly birth control in general, and a host of other things.

We are fucked.

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[kathygnome.livejournal.com]

The last two abortion cases have been 5-4 with O'Connor on the pro-choice side.

Roe v. Wade and the right to a legal abortion in the US is over.

[lassiter.livejournal.com]

Neither of those cases had to do with reconsidering Roe v Wade itself, though.

Yes, you'll see the Supremes allowing continued whittling of abortion rights for minors, ugly regulatory and reporting requirements for physicians, etc., but the essential decision and rationale behind Roe v Wade is not gonna be touched. The Supremes are simply not gonna want to revisit the hundreds of subsequent precendents and decisions that have been ruled on already over the past 20-odd years.