Was there ever really a "Constitutional right" to have an abortion?

[JGalt]

I was listening to the car radio this morning and an anti-Trump ad came on. In the ad, they said that Donald Trump wants to deny women their "Constitutional right" to abortions, which is silly. Why does the left lie like that?

"The majority opinion was written by Justice Alito and joined by Justices Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett. In it, Justice Alito writes that “stare decisis, the doctrine on which Casey’s controlling opinion was based, does not compel unending adherence to Roe’s abuse of judicial authority.” He goes on to say that “the Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision, including the one on which the defenders of Roe and Casey now chiefly rely—the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.” Then, the opinion discusses abortion’s divergence from other Court rulings and the overextending authority of Roe..

The abortion right is also critically different from any other right that this Court has held to fall within the Fourteenth Amendment’s protection of ‘liberty.’ Roe’s defenders characterize the abortion right as similar to the rights recognized in past decisions involving matters such as intimate sexual relations, contraception, and marriage, but abortion is fundamentally different, as both Roe and Casey acknowledged, because it destroys what those decisions called ‘fetal life’ and what the law now before us describes as an ‘unborn' human being.

So, is abortion a constitutional right? No. Far from it. The legal rulings that previously declared abortion as a right lacked constitutionality. The majority opinions in Roe and Casey even acknowledge that the Constitution doesn’t protect abortion as a “fundamental right.” With the recent Dobbs ruling, the Supreme Court ruled solely on what is written in the Constitution instead of loosely implied – including the right to life.

The country is now closer to the Constitution’s intent than ever before. By protecting men and women’s safety both in and out of the womb, we are returning to our country’s equality-granting, fundamental, life-affirming roots."

Is Abortion A Constitutional Right?

 

[Crepitus]

I was listening to the car radio this morning and an anti-Trump ad came on. In the ad, they said that Donald Trump wants to deny women their "Constitutional right" to abortions, which is silly. Why does the left lie like that?

"The majority opinion was written by Justice Alito and joined by Justices Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett. In it, Justice Alito writes that “stare decisis, the doctrine on which Casey’s controlling opinion was based, does not compel unending adherence to Roe’s abuse of judicial authority.” He goes on to say that “the Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision, including the one on which the defenders of Roe and Casey now chiefly rely—the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.” Then, the opinion discusses abortion’s divergence from other Court rulings and the overextending authority of Roe..

The abortion right is also critically different from any other right that this Court has held to fall within the Fourteenth Amendment’s protection of ‘liberty.’ Roe’s defenders characterize the abortion right as similar to the rights recognized in past decisions involving matters such as intimate sexual relations, contraception, and marriage, but abortion is fundamentally different, as both Roe and Casey acknowledged, because it destroys what those decisions called ‘fetal life’ and what the law now before us describes as an ‘unborn' human being.

So, is abortion a constitutional right? No. Far from it. The legal rulings that previously declared abortion as a right lacked constitutionality. The majority opinions in Roe and Casey even acknowledge that the Constitution doesn’t protect abortion as a “fundamental right.” With the recent Dobbs ruling, the Supreme Court ruled solely on what is written in the Constitution instead of loosely implied – including the right to life.

The country is now closer to the Constitution’s intent than ever before. By protecting men and women’s safety both in and out of the womb, we are returning to our country’s equality-granting, fundamental, life-affirming roots."

Is Abortion A Constitutional Right?

Until the religious right started picking justices there was.

 

[JGalt]

Until the religious right started picking justices there was.

Trump is "religious"?

 

[Crepitus]

Trump is "religious"?

The federalist society (a pimple on the ass of our great nation) picked those judges.

 

[martybegan]

The federalist society (a pimple on the ass of our great nation) picked those judges.

Yes, because championing separation of powers and federalism is a terrible thing. Well it is to power hungry SJW socialist idiots like you.

 

[martybegan]

Until the religious right started picking justices there was.

There was no enumerated right. Why can't States amend their Constitutions to create it at the State level?

 

[AMart]

Until the religious right started picking justices there was.

Nope it's not in there. That means it gets kicked to the State level.

 

[JGalt]

The federalist society (a pimple on the ass of our great nation) picked those judges.

Is that necessarily a bad thing? If anyone can judge whether candidates have a strict adherence to the US Constitution, it would be the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation. But ultimately, the choice was up to Trump to choose and to Congress to confirm.

 

[tyroneweaver]

abortion is definately against the constitution.

The right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

 

[mamooth]

Is there a right to privacy?

Yes or no?

Answer that, and you've answered if there's a right to abortion.

 

[Moonglow]

I was listening to the car radio this morning and an anti-Trump ad came on. In the ad, they said that Donald Trump wants to deny women their "Constitutional right" to abortions, which is silly. Why does the left lie like that?

"The majority opinion was written by Justice Alito and joined by Justices Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett. In it, Justice Alito writes that “stare decisis, the doctrine on which Casey’s controlling opinion was based, does not compel unending adherence to Roe’s abuse of judicial authority.” He goes on to say that “the Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision, including the one on which the defenders of Roe and Casey now chiefly rely—the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.” Then, the opinion discusses abortion’s divergence from other Court rulings and the overextending authority of Roe..

The abortion right is also critically different from any other right that this Court has held to fall within the Fourteenth Amendment’s protection of ‘liberty.’ Roe’s defenders characterize the abortion right as similar to the rights recognized in past decisions involving matters such as intimate sexual relations, contraception, and marriage, but abortion is fundamentally different, as both Roe and Casey acknowledged, because it destroys what those decisions called ‘fetal life’ and what the law now before us describes as an ‘unborn' human being.

So, is abortion a constitutional right? No. Far from it. The legal rulings that previously declared abortion as a right lacked constitutionality. The majority opinions in Roe and Casey even acknowledge that the Constitution doesn’t protect abortion as a “fundamental right.” With the recent Dobbs ruling, the Supreme Court ruled solely on what is written in the Constitution instead of loosely implied – including the right to life.

The country is now closer to the Constitution’s intent than ever before. By protecting men and women’s safety both in and out of the womb, we are returning to our country’s equality-granting, fundamental, life-affirming roots."

Is Abortion A Constitutional Right?

There is no Constitutional right not to get an abortion either.

 

[JGalt]

Is there a right to privacy?

Yes or no?

Answer that, and you've answered if there's a right to abortion.

The right to privacy has nothing to do with abortion. Do you have the "right" to murder your own mother or father in the privacy of your own home? Do you have the "right" to lock yourself in the house and shoot up drugs?

Absolutely not.

 

[mamooth]

The right to privacy has nothing to do with abortion.

Don't be silly.

Do you have the "right" to murder your own mother or father in the privacy of your own home?

Are they inside your body?

Do you have the "right" to lock yourself in the house and shoot up drugs?

Well, yes. Taking drugs isn't illegal, only possessing them is illegal.

 

[Moonglow]

I was listening to the car radio this morning and an anti-Trump ad came on. In the ad, they said that Donald Trump wants to deny women their "Constitutional right" to abortions, which is silly. Why does the left lie like that?

"The majority opinion was written by Justice Alito and joined by Justices Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett. In it, Justice Alito writes that “stare decisis, the doctrine on which Casey’s controlling opinion was based, does not compel unending adherence to Roe’s abuse of judicial authority.” He goes on to say that “the Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision, including the one on which the defenders of Roe and Casey now chiefly rely—the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.” Then, the opinion discusses abortion’s divergence from other Court rulings and the overextending authority of Roe..

The abortion right is also critically different from any other right that this Court has held to fall within the Fourteenth Amendment’s protection of ‘liberty.’ Roe’s defenders characterize the abortion right as similar to the rights recognized in past decisions involving matters such as intimate sexual relations, contraception, and marriage, but abortion is fundamentally different, as both Roe and Casey acknowledged, because it destroys what those decisions called ‘fetal life’ and what the law now before us describes as an ‘unborn' human being.

So, is abortion a constitutional right? No. Far from it. The legal rulings that previously declared abortion as a right lacked constitutionality. The majority opinions in Roe and Casey even acknowledge that the Constitution doesn’t protect abortion as a “fundamental right.” With the recent Dobbs ruling, the Supreme Court ruled solely on what is written in the Constitution instead of loosely implied – including the right to life.

The country is now closer to the Constitution’s intent than ever before. By protecting men and women’s safety both in and out of the womb, we are returning to our country’s equality-granting, fundamental, life-affirming roots."

Is Abortion A Constitutional Right?

There is no Constitutional right not to get an abortion either. It is about liberty of a human controlling what happens with their own body versus state control.

 

[the watcher]

All you have to do is read some of the opinions here on this and other message boards and see where America is headed, and why, and how it will end. There are no morals anymore and people are justifying whatever they do to themselves.

 

[Crepitus]

Yes, because championing separation of powers and federalism is a terrible thing. Well it is to power hungry SJW socialist idiots like you.

tRumpling please.

You know that's not what this is about for them.

Don't be stupider than you have to be.

 

[Sunni Man]

Is there a right to privacy?

Yes or no?

Answer that, and you've answered if there's a right to abortion.

Yes, we have a Constitutional right to privacy.
But not the right to murder another human being

 

[Crepitus]

Is that necessarily a bad thing?

Yes. Letting fanatics pick political appointees is a bad thing.

Always.

 

[JGalt]

Don't be silly.


Are they inside your body?


Well, yes. Taking drugs isn't illegal, only possessing them is illegal.

Wrong. Possession, use, or distribution of illicit drugs are all illegal under federal statutes.

Do you really think you wouldn't go to jail if you were pulled over high as a kite? It's called "under the influence."

 

[JGalt]

There is no Constitutional right not to get an abortion either. It is about liberty of a human controlling what happens with their own body versus state control.

It's not "their own" body. A pregnant woman is carrying another living human being.