“Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” Alito writes. The entire draft opinion can be read below:
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The next step (after making abortion illegal without exception on day 1) is to start enforcing abortion laws against the women who choose to murder their babies. They are murderers, plain and simple.
It's not that black and white, except in the 'shout your abortion' cases. Coercion, and even forced abortions can and do happen, even in America: https://theunchoice.com/coerced.htm
Don't get me wrong- I'm as anti-abortion as any of you out there. But just as we weigh the evidence to see if a case is murder , manslaughter , or unintentional, we need to find out just what the woman (or girl) knew before she walked in, was she coerced, and other factors.
http://www.theunchoice.com/pdf/FactSheets/PortraitsOfCoercion.pdf
the Doctor should hold at least some responsibility as well.
Prosecute the real villains, the abortionists. Don't waste time trying to get all the fish, just the big fish.
But also, to be honest, this should not even be a federal allowance. This is a state's rights issue from the beginning, and SCOTUS should honestly never have ruled on it.
Say Texas wants it completely gone and illegal, that's fine because the voters (supposedly) decided it.
Say Seattle now wants to make it legal. If that's what the majority wants there, it's up to citizens there to fight it off.
But the federal government has no right to enforce this on any level against a state that doesn't want abortion.
The people decide, and do so without permission.
No, it's not a states right issue, just like slavery was never truly a "states rights" issue because such criminal act is a crime against nature, a violation of the most basic natural rights to liberty and property in one's one being and existence. No amount of people, at any level, get to vote to deny any one else these basic God-given rights.
That is why the basic right of LIFE is protected for ALL people, including the unborn PERSON, by the Constitution under the 14th Amendment and 5th Amendment.
The evil people,of Seattle, even if a majority within that region, have NO right to vote to permit evil upon other citizens of the United States.
As Lincoln so aptly put it, "'a house divided against itself cannot stand' [...] It will become all one thing, ot all the other."
The doctor is the assassin. The woman is the one who hired the assassin. Lots of case law regarding these types of arrangements. Both are put on trial for murder.
Extenuating circumstances can always be considered, but it is hard to imagine a situation where it could be considered anything other than 1st degree murder. It can never be an "accident", and claiming self defense against a harmless baby is a real stretch. It is always premeditated, and "that person was inconvenient for me" is not a defense. I suppose there might be a case where temporary insanity could be involved. But ultimately, if I agree to hire a hitman to kill someone, even if I am being coerced, that is still my decision.
Alternate scenario: Parents tell a 15 year old minor "take this gun and go shoot that store clerk". Minor does as he is told. Is the minor guilty? Should the minor have known this is wrong? Were they competent to think for themselves?
Our justice system already has the ability to deal with minors committing murder. Coercion to commit murder does not absolve a minor from the responsibility of committing murder. The punishment may be different depending on circumstances. Temporary insanity and diminished capacitiy are already available to the defense as possible pleas. The crime doesn't change because of the age of the victim who was killed.