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Supreme Court weighs whether to hear first challenge to Roe vs. Wade since Kavanaugh joined bench
« on: January 05, 2019, 04:22:50 am »
LA Times 1/4/2019 by David Savage

The Supreme Court on Friday weighed whether to hear a case involving the landmark Roe vs. Wade decision, the first direct challenge to abortion rights the court has faced since Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh took his seat.

The case involves an appeal from Indiana, which seeks to enforce a state law that forbids abortions by women who cite Down syndrome, or the sex or race of the fetus, as a reason for ending a pregnancy.

Justices reviewed the matter privately Friday but were not expected to announce whether they will take the case until next week at the earliest.

When Justice Anthony Kennedy was on the court, state lawyers did not seek to challenge Roe vs. Wade, since Kennedy had voted to uphold the right to abortion decades before. But Kavanaugh, who replaced Kennedy on the court, has been seen as more conservative and open to limiting or overturning the right to abortion.

Indiana wasted no time in lodging its appeal. On Oct. 12, a week after Kavanaugh was sworn in, state lawyers urged the court to revive a 2016 state law and “uphold Indiana’s authority to put end to eugenics abortions.”

More: https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-court-abortion-20190104-story.html
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Re: Supreme Court weighs whether to hear first challenge to Roe vs. Wade since Kavanaugh joined benc
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2019, 04:29:23 am »
Nothing like SCOTUS stepping into Roe v. Wade and Federally funded or authorized killing of babies will raise the cackles of the Dems more than their fight against a few measly dollars for a wall.
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Re: Supreme Court weighs whether to hear first challenge to Roe vs. Wade since Kavanaugh joined benc
« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2019, 04:48:54 am »
Tax money wasn't supposed to pay for abortions, anyway.

At that point, the United States Government is forcing millions of people, at gunpoint if necessary, and under threat of prosecution for income tax evasion, to fund what they regard as murder, morally reprehensible and in defiance of their religious beliefs. At the least there should be a First Amendment challenge to such activities.

Granted, money is fungible, so anything which frees funds for the abortion mongers to spend on abortions, even though it does not directly pay for abortion, could be considered the equivalent of making taxpayers accomplices to murder.
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Re: Supreme Court weighs whether to hear first challenge to Roe vs. Wade since Kavanaugh joined benc
« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2019, 05:16:56 am »
Nothing empowers women more than selectively aborting female babies based solely upon their gender.
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Re: Supreme Court weighs whether to hear first challenge to Roe vs. Wade since Kavanaugh joined benc
« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2019, 05:24:57 am »
Quote from: Hoodat on January 05, 2019, 05:16:56 am
Nothing empowers women more than selectively aborting female babies based solely upon their gender.
It takes a generation, but the survivors can all pretty much demand whatever they want....

Anyone who has been in an area where men significantly outnumber women would know.
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