JUSTICE ALITO’S OPINION IS HIS RATIONAL FOR OVERTURNING ROE v WADE

 

                        …Justice Samuel Alito doesn’t know what he’s talking about

 

American women will be the first victims of the “Christian Nationalist Movement”

 

I am now going to join in an area of which will once again use the history of this country to prove that Justice Samuel Alito doesn’t know what he talking about.  

It will also show that the leaking of the Supreme Court draft opinion that may eventually become the bane for the right to have an abortion.

In Alito’s 98 exhausting pages, he tries, yet fails, to shred the argument that the right to an abortion is “guaranteed by the guarantee of liberty in the 14^th amendment.”

But let’s look at what history says about abortion.

When the U.S. Constitution was ratified, abortions were criminally punishable “only if they were performed after the first fetal movements, or about 15 weeks into a pregnancy.”  At the time of the nation’s founding, no state banned any abortions, “pre those fetal movements”.  

The best evidence is that when the nation only had 21 states, abortion remained perfectly lawful until after that 15 week period. 

Yet Alito seeks to ‘spin us backwards in time” to an era when women weren’t even “equal citizens” and American women couldn’t even vote.

“Alito appears clueless about the realities of being pregnant in the U.S.,” said Ria Mar in The Washington Post.  Alito displays “astonishing ignorance” by arguing that the “modern developments” like paid maternity leave, laws banning workplace pregnancy discrimination, insurance covering medical pregnancy expenses, these have just turned carrying a pregnancy nine months into what Alito calls “a minor inconvenience.”

It was Alito that joined other conservatives in blocking Medicaid expansion for red states, making that landscape even more perilous in those states.

Yet he would happily see the states force American girls and women to carry unwanted pregnancies for nine months, and to then give birth.

Far from compelling women to become pregnant, the pro-life movement believes that “once a women becomes pregnant as a result of her choice to engage in sex, she is responsible for that human life and cannot enact an abortion in order to escape pregnancy.”  According to Justice Alito, there is no fundamental right in the U.S. Constitution to have sex without any consequence.

“Nor does the Constitution spell out a right for individuals to carry unlicensed handguns or semiautomatic rifles, or for private religious schools to draw on public funds,” said Kathrine Stewart in The New Republic

“In the hands of this radicalized court, their constitutional reasoning is just a way of depriving their disfavored groups of their individual rights while dispensing privileges to groups with their version of the ‘correct viewpoints.’ ”

Beware, Alito’s opinion will serve as a “blueprint for a wider assault on individual rights” especially those that include the right to contraception or to all same-sex marriages.

It is appearing that “Women of child bearing age are now among the first victims of the Christian Nationalist Movement” in the taking over of all the courts. 

But these women won’t be the last victims.

Copyright G. Ater 2022