The Supreme Court seemed poised on Wednesday to uphold a Mississippi law that bans abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, based on sometimes tense and heated questioning at a momentous argument in the most important abortion case in decades.
Such a ruling would be flatly at odds with what the court has said was the central holding of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that established a constitutional right to abortion and prohibited states from banning the procedure before fetal viability, or around 23 weeks.
But the court’s six-member conservative majority seemed divided about whether to stop at 15 weeks, for now at least, or whether to overrule Roe entirely, allowing states to ban abortions at any time or entirely.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. was the leading voice on the right for a narrow decision. “The thing that is at issue before us today is 15 weeks,” he said.
Abortions prior to 15 weeks are still legal under the Mississippi bill. That’s 95% of all abortions. 60% of all abortions are within the first 8 weeks and 77% are within the first 10 weeks.
Justice Breyer quoted from Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the 1992 decision that reaffirmed what it called Roe’s core holding, the one prohibiting states from banning abortions before fetal viability: “To overrule under fire in the absence of the most compelling reason to re-examine a watershed decision would subvert the court’s legitimacy beyond any serious question.”
That’s EXACTLY what they did with the gay marriage thing, though. The first ruling said “The federal government cannot dictate to the states whether they can or cannot have gay marriage.” Then the issue was kicked to the states and they all outlawed it, even far left Commifornia. Then gay judges overturned the plebiscites that won with veto-proof majorities in every state based on personal opinion and not legal precedent, as several admitted in their rulings, and leftoids giggled and clapped “Yay! The people have spoken!” (actual quote). Then when 30 states had their plebiscites overruled by gay judges it was kicked back to SCOTUS and they then ruled “The states cannot decide whether they can or cannot have gay marriage, only the federal government can, and we say it’s legal. YOLO SWAG! LOL!”
The first ruling was it’s a state’s rights decision, the second ruling was it’s a federal decision. According to ruling 2 the first ruling had no legal grounding and DOMA was legitimate. They built all this on a blatant contradiction and no one but Andrew Jackson could have done anything to stop them. (Andrew “Action” Jackson was the only president to stand up to the dictators in black robes; when the court said Jackson couldn’t do something he said “I’ve got the army, you don’t, you can’t stop me.”)