Thread by @HappyWarriorP

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Here is my weekly @townhallcom Column ✍️

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was Right: Roe v. Wade was always destined for the Scrap Heap🗑️
townhall.com/columnists/pet… @benshapiro @AbbyJohnson @madelineorr #conservative #elonmusk #abortion #prochoice #roe #RoeVWade #RoeOverturned

May be hard for my friends on the left to hear this,

our whole lives we've been told how important Roe v Wade was in giving women the right to abortion via a right to privacy

But this was fiction, the only question for Roe v. Wade was when it would be overturned, not if.

whatever ur opinion on abortion,

Roe v Wade was objectively bad law built upon the weakest case constitutionally

As RBG predicted,
Roe was always eventually going to be overturned
townhall.com/columnists/pet… #politics #RoeVWade @CathyYoung63 @MrAndyNgo @ConceptualJames @amber_athey

Reason #1: Penumbras,

Roe does not have any actual textual basis in the Constitution, Blackmun based it on "penumbras" meaning he used reasoning on general themes used in the constitution

This means there was never any proof for this newfound right to privacy & abortion

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a frequent critic of Roe,

she said that it would have been better if Roe had been built upon the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment, instead of the invisible words found in the penumbras

#RBG #scotus #RoeVWade @conor64 @ggreenwald

Ginsburg warned emphatically in a 1992 lecture that Roe's “doctrinal limbs too swiftly shaped, (as) experience teaches, may prove unstable.”

She was right,
#roe #roevwade #RoeOverturned #politics

Reason #2: Trimesters & Viability

For Roe, even mechanisms, or rules determining legality of regulations are broken beyond repair,

Roe instituted the Trimester rule, where abortion regulations for 1rst trimester are rarely allowed, 2nd sometimes & 3rd almost always prohibited

No basis for this ruling by Blackmun & even @ the time was deemed completely arbitrary,

In 1992 in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, SCOTUS replaced that rule w/ the Viability standard

meaning determining limits on abortion regs based on earliest point a baby can be born & yet live.

A major flaw w/ the Viability standard though, in 1992 viability was 24 weeks, but today that can be as close as 21,

Overtime the ice floe Roe stands upon is melting & thus its mechanisms are falling apart
townhall.com/columnists/pet… @Heminator @MZHemingway @chadfelixg @BlueBoxDave

Remember, Roe came about partially cuz of the lack of options other than abortion for an unwanted child,

But today there are many options on the table, including Plan-B pill & Safe-Haven laws.

Roe is weaker than ever
thefederalist.com/2022/04/14/no-… #RoeVWade @JackPosobiec @JoyPullmann

Reason #3: Bottomless Pit

Roe & Casey were meant to end the political debate & high tensions on the abortion question.

But these cases made it worse & put SCOTUS on a fatal political trajectory on the issue of abortion
#prolife #politics @JonahDispatch
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If U ever wondered how US Supreme Court,

head of an independent branch, meant to be unaffected by the vagaries of popular opinion

got stuck in deciding so many political cases like Obergefell, Sebelius, or Bush v. Gore this is how we got there #politics @libsoftiktok @stillgray

Chief Justice Rehnquist warned:

“Once the Court starts looking to the currents of public opinion regarding a particular judgment, it enters a truly bottomless pit from which there is simply no extracting itself.”🤔
#roevwade #SupremeCourt @neontaster @nickgillespie @heckyessica

in the Constitution, all rights not referred to specifically are by right, an issue belonging to the states

Abortion, under federalism is supposed to be a debatable issue

Roe stopped this & made everything worse
townhall.com/columnists/pet… @PolitiBunny @QTRBlackGarrett

Live by the Sword, Die By the Sword⚔️

Roe v Wade was always in trouble cuz as a political decision it meant that whenever the political winds changed & popular opinions shifted it meant Roe was going to be in danger of being overturned😲

All the serious people, in law, media, universities, & politicians, have long understood Roe was incredibly fragile.

Only thing protecting it was their incessant threats & Stare De Crisis -meaning the court's hesitancy to overturn historical precedence.

latimes.com/politics/story…

If U ever wondered why Roe was defended so ferociously in the media, this is why

Cuz if an ounce of pressure to support Roe were removed, then the whole stack of cards, the right to abortion, might come crashing down.
@realchrisrufo @emzanotti @bdomenech #RoeVWade #history #usa

So now you understand, Roe v Wade was always a very bad law built upon the thinnest of arguments,

Which is why you shouldn't be surprised Roe got overturned, it's the timing that's always been the big question,

When Roe would fall apart, not if
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for those panicking,

@jacobsullum lays out how removing Roe will only lead to a minor reduction in abortions,

Most abortions are becoming pill-driven telemedicine anyways & most will be able to travel to another state where it is legal
reason.com/2022/05/03/the… @reason

What might change, is a reduction in the use of late-term abortions,

a barbaric practice targetted mostly at black families & what Planned Parenthood's Margaret Sanger always dreamed
firstthings.com/web-exclusives… @catturd2 @JDVance1 @benshapiro @xan_desanctis @RichLowry @michaelbd

late-term abortion is evil,

most Americans thankfully oppose it & moving the question to the states will mean this opinion will get reflected in policy more, not less
apnews.com/article/dec1f8… #abortion #prochoice #roe #roevwade @wil_da_beast630 @davidharsanyi @baseballcrank

End of Roe is not the final word on the abortion debate, but a new beginning

Folks need to stop panicking & start persuading

May God bless the best & most moral argument to win🙏
townhall.com/columnists/pet… #RoeVWade #biden @LifeSite @brad_polumbo @AbigailShrier @MiaCathell