Sensitive The USA supreme court has officially overturned roe v Wade. (2 Viewers)

[tai]

America 😃😃😃😃​

 

[Chaeee]

What’s Roe v wade?

 

[badcrookshanks]

really sad day

 

[Villains]

that's so sad

 

[tai]

What’s Roe v wade?

Abortion rights

 

[Villains]

What’s Roe v wade?

In 1970, Jane Roe (a fictional name used in court documents to protect the plaintiff’s identity) filed a lawsuit against Henry Wade, the district attorney of Dallas County, Texas, where she resided, challenging a Texas law making abortion illegal except by a doctor’s orders to save a woman’s life. In her lawsuit, Roe alleged that the state laws were unconstitutionally vague and abridged her right of personal privacy, protected by the First, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments.

Conclusion
Inherent in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is a fundamental “right to privacy” that protects a pregnant woman’s choice whether to have an abortion. However, this right is balanced against the government’s interests in protecting women's health and protecting “the potentiality of human life.” The Texas law challenged in this case violated this right.

Justice Harry Blackmun delivered the opinion for the 7-2 majority of the Court.

First, the Court considered whether the case was moot, concluding that it was not. When the subject of litigation is “capable of repetition yet evading review,” a case need not be dismissed as moot. Pregnancy is a “classic justification for a conclusion of nonmootness.”

The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protects against state action the right to privacy, and a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion falls within that right to privacy. A state law that broadly prohibits abortion without respect to the stage of pregnancy or other interests violates that right. Although the state has legitimate interests in protecting the health of pregnant women and the “potentiality of human life,” the relative weight of each of these interests varies over the course of pregnancy, and the law must account for this variability.

In the first trimester of pregnancy, the state may not regulate the abortion decision; only the pregnant woman and her attending physician can make that decision. In the second trimester, the state may impose regulations on abortion that are reasonably related to maternal health. In the third trimester, once the fetus reaches the point of “viability,” a state may regulate abortions or prohibit them entirely, so long as the laws contain exceptions for cases when abortion is necessary to save the life or health of the mother.


but they overturned it

 

[Mangoey]

Don't you just love taking steps back

 

[Bopper]

I’m not even American and I’m furious. Between that and the relaxation of gun laws, just good luck to you all out there.

 

[Dreamer_of_Songs]

This proves that America is going backwards when it comes to women’s reproductive rights.

A good number of States are banning legal abortions… Luckily my state isn’t one of them.

 

[tai]

This proves that America is going backwards when it comes to women’s reproductive rights.

A good number of States are banning legal abortions… Luckily my state isn’t one of them.

America is going backwards in a lot of things unfortunately .

 

[Dreamer_of_Songs]

America is going backwards in a lot of things unfortunately .

That is the sad truth.

 

[Nina]

Everyone who voted to overturn should deal with pregnancy and orphaned children their entire life. They should have to sit and listen to statements of rape victims left pregnant every single day, every hour. Listen to statement from young girls.
Deal with consequences.
Sadly, no one does but victims.

 

[Tickita]

What the hell.

 

[Magician]

forced pregnancies in a country with like monthly mass shootings and baby formula shortages

 

[lexus]

So they’ll overturn this but won’t do anything about children getting murdered in mass shootings all the time? Pathetic

 

[dark_tranquility]

America gets hit with confuse ray
it damages itself in its confusion.

I see more lows coming from this.

 

[Chaeee]

And this is supposed to be a “first world country”?!??!🤦🏻Sickening really

 

[Abeamus]

There's an issue in various places with far right views gaining power and undoing stuff left and right actually agree on to a certain degree at least because some people just don't believe this kind of thing can happen to them until it does.

People should be alert on what political candidates are in their area when elections come up as stuff like this will only empower others with those views elsewhere and when dangerous candidates like those pop up then you need to focus on the red flags and vote if only to stop them gaining power.

 

[SnowWhite]

I am highkey shocked because everything about this was so sudden and out of nowhere. Where I live abortions were already banned so I am very cautious but for a "first world country" like America, just.....

 

[SnowWhite]

Spoiler: TW?

That being said, I am not a fan of being too careless around this matter. If it's a r*pe case or the mother and child are at risk, sure abortion is necessary. Safety doesn't work 100% but it works most of the time. To be careless and then suddenly decide to abort a fetus that you once created only for having a moment of pleasure doesn't sound right to me, specially since last year that I have been studying pre-med material and genetics and fetus development stages.