Will There Be Credibility Issue With Supreme Court If Roe v. Wade Is Partially Or Totally Overturned
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Today, Wednesday, December 1, 2021, nine Supreme Court Justices heard the most direct challenge to abortion rights in United States in decades. The outcome may potentially change the fundamental rights of women to make decision for their own bodies . Outside of the court, many passionate protesters on both sides of the abortion argument showed up: Pro-Life people are praying and singing hymns while Pro-Choice people held up signs such as “Hands Off My Body”. Inside the court, the conservative majority appears to be ready to break precedent and uphold Mississippi’s restrictive abortion ban and in the process of setting stage to overturn or dramatically weaken Roe v Wade. According to the recent ABC news poll, 75% of the Americans believe that the woman and her doctor should make the decision about whether an abortion is necessary rather than the government, and 60% of the Americans believe that Roe v Wade should be upheld, in the video published on Dec 1, 2021, “Supreme Court hears challenge to Roe v. Wade“, below:
Listen to live audio as the Supreme Court hears arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, a challenge by Mississippi to Roe v. Wade, in the video published on Dec 1, 2021, “Supreme Court Hears Mississippi Challenge To Roe V. Wade | NBC News“, below:
The Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments on a Mississippi abortion case that would challenege Roe v. Wade. Meagan Hatcher-Mays and Kimberly Wehle discuss, in the video published on Dec 1, 2021, “Supreme Court Versus Roe V. Wade | The Mehdi Hasan Show“, below:
Thousands gathered outside the Supreme Court on Wednesday as the court heard arguments in the most serious challenge to Roe vs. Wade in 30 years, in the video published on Dec 1, 2021, “Protesters gather as Supreme Court considers historic abortion case“, below:
Pro-choice and anti-abortion advocates faced off outside the U.S. Supreme Court as the justices heard arguments over whether to overturn a restrictive Mississippi abortion law that could challenge the Roe vs. Wade decision that legalized abortion, in the video published on Dec 1, 2021, “Protesters face off as U.S. Supreme Court considers Mississippi abortion law“, below:
The Supreme Court hears oral arguments on Mississippi’s law that would effectively ban abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy in a case that Washington Post Supreme Court reporter Robert Barnes says could slam the door on abortion rights all over the country, in the video published on Nov 30 2021, “Abortion rights at stake in Supreme Court case“, below:
Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor and legal correspondent for Slate, talks with Rachel Maddow about how Supreme Court conservatives will try to spin their abortion rulings as some kind of middle ground even as most Americans recognize the political agenda they’re pursuing, in the video published on Dec 2, 2021, “Anti-Abortion Supreme Court Justices Unconvincing With ‘Neutrality’ Feint“, below:
Rachel Maddow shares a key exchange from the Supreme Court arguments in the Mississippi abortion case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization oral argument in which Julie Rikelman of the Center for Reproductive Rights explains to Neil Gorsuch that women can not be equal under the Constitution if they do not have liberty over their own bodies, in the video published on Dec 2, 2021, “Abortion Case In Simple Terms: Government Control Of Women’s Bodies“, below:
Rachel Maddow explains why the anti-abortion justices on the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade would confirm what many people already think about the court being compromised by politics, and highlights the more liberal justices cautioning their colleagues who appear poised to fulfill the reason Republicans nominated them to the court, in the video published on Dec 2, 2021, “Supreme Court Faces Credibility Crisis As Anti-Abortion Justices Set To Fulfill Purpose“, below:
It is important to note an excerpt from Washington Post, “Opinion: Gutting ‘Roe’ would devastate millions of Americans – and the court itself“, by Editorial Board, on December 1, 2021, in bold italics, below:
“Very little has changed since the court handed down Roe and Casey, aside from the fact that Americans now rely on their right to choose whether to terminate a pregnancy…The other shift since Roe has been the makeup of the court, reshaped after the addition of several conservative justices due to a mixture of underhanded politics and pure happenstance…The court’s authority derives not from its ability to enforce its declarations – it lacks any such power – but from the fact that Americans respect its decisions. Those decisions must reflect something greater than mere whim or raw political power in the Senate. The justices should have no illusions: A partial or total reversal of Roe would devastate not only the Americans who rely on the abortion rights that have been theirs for nearly 50 years, but also the court itself, undermining its legitimacy.“
In the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Oral Arguments, Justice Kagan said, “General, Justice Breyer started with stare decisis, an important principle in any case, and, here, for the reasons that Casey mentioned, especially so, to prevent people from thinking that this Court is a political institution that will go back and forth depending on what part of the public yells loudest and — and preventing people from thinking that the Court will go back and forth depending on changes to the Court’s membership.
Justice Breyer said, “We have to have public support, and that comes primarily…from people believing that we do our job. We use reason. We don’t look to just what’s popular. And that’s where you’re seeing the paradox…The problem with a super case like this, the rare case, the watershed case, where people are really opposed on both sides and they really fight each other, is they’re going to be ready to say, no, you’re just political, you’re just politicians. And that’s what kills us as an American institution.”
Justice Sotomayor said, “Now the sponsors of this bill, the House bill, in Mississippi, said we’re doing it because we have new justices. The newest ban that Mississippi has put in place, the six-week ban, the Senate sponsor said we’re doing it because we have new justices on the Supreme Court. Will this institution survive the stench that this creates in the public perception that the Constitution and its reading are just political acts?…I don’t see how it is possible… If people actually believe that it’s all political, how will we survive?”
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