“Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” Alito writes. The entire draft opinion can be read below:
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See, this is why I try not to speculate on elections too far out. A Republican wave was likely for the midterms, but now Democrats got handed an issue that is guaranteed to increase voter turnout.
It was going to come up before the election either way, but now it’s probably going to be the issue that defines the election cycle from the beginning.
Let’s see what happens.
The assumption is that our election system is fair, this is further from the truth and we know it.
But let’s assume the white hats actually do fix the election system, it will come down this way…
100% of Conservatives will be on the side of anti-abortion, very much in keeping with Christian and Religious values.
The above make up ~90% of the Republican vote (the other 10% are RINOs and the establishment following sheeple)
~50% of Democrats will be on the side of anti-abortion — these are the people who actually hold Conservative values but have been so bamboozled into believe the LIE of the Democrat party. There are at constant odds with themselves. These are the folks who are slowly bleeding into the R party… these people we can reach.
The other ~50% of Democrats… well, these are the lunatics of America. They are the Leftist, the people who are so drunk on the koolaid they will gladly destroy the country to ‘feel good’ about themselves. These are the WOKE crowd who want their young kids to be groomed in school, love CRT, and believe men are women and women are men, … yes, that people. Because they hold no conservative values, they do not care about the life of a fetus. These are the people who truly believe a fetus is just a ‘thing’ to be discarded because it’s an inconvenience.
You and I probably agree philosophically on abortion, but I disagree with the attributions you make to liberals as to why they are pro-choice, and I think that will result in you underestimating the number of people willing to vote against you.
Which, of course, would then result in you assuming you have far more support for your position than you do, which means that voter fraud seems a more likely reason for you to lose on an issue than being outvoted.
The fact is that conservatives are absolutely right that abortion is a right-to-life issue.
And the fact is that liberals are absolutely right that abortion is a women’s rights issue.
And the two sides are rarely arguing the same point, or acknowledging the other side’s point, which is why this issue is ongoing.
I agree with conservatives that abortion kills people. I am not a fan of that. But I also can’t fathom how we can possibly have a free society when a man can decide the entire future for a woman just by impregnating her with a baby she isn’t allowed to take any action to remove from her life. Whether it’s common or not, it’s a knife that hangs over the head of every woman in this country, and I don’t see how they can ever be equal citizens when abortion is illegal.
I’ve spent time pissing off liberals by insisting that pro-lifers have other motivations than enslaving women. I think it would behoove you to make similar appraisals about liberals in this case if you have any genuine interest in resolving this problem in this country.
I think given the subject matter on this board, you realize that not every woman chooses to have sex when they get pregnant. And not every woman who chooses to have sex chooses to get pregnant.
A man who sabotages the condom can make that choice for her, for instance.
It’s also worth noting that if a woman can’t get an abortion, that allows rapists an enormous amount of power over their victims, if they’re willing to go to jail for it.
“Sure, I’m going to jail. But nobody was having sex with me. Now, my genes are going to be passed on by Natalie Portman. I’m okay with it.”
Sure, we could allow abortions in the case of rape, but why? If we’re prioritizing the life above all else, the fetus didn’t commit the rape. So I can’t think of a logical reason to allow rape victims to get abortions under a purely pro-life approach.
I’m not going to sit here and defend abortion, because I don’t believe in abortion. But let’s not oversimplify the pro-choice position here. It’s about far more than sluts being slutty.