Category: Abortion rights

Why are they not protesting at the homes of Congressional representatives? It’s in their power to “fix” this issue; why blame the Supreme Court when the solution is to pass an abortion law (something the Court cannot do)?

Pro-abortion protesters march to homes of Justices Kavanaugh and Roberts in ‘vigil’ for Roe v. Wade

No, it’s not. It’s the fault of Congress alone; they have failed to act for almost 50 years, even though many (including the left’s favorite justice, Ruth Bader Ginsberg) have noted that Roe v Wade was vulnerable due to its poor foundation.

And yet Congress still can’t get their act together to protect a woman’s reasonable right to choose, although now I think it’s intentional. The Democrats in Congress need to stretch this crisis until the mid-terms in hopes of salvaging the votes that they have lost by their failures (Afghanistan, the economy, inflation, free speech, COVID, etc.).

So how can they do that? By putting forth an abortion bill that will garner no Republican votes (and lose some Democrats as well). If they can’t pass an abortion bill before the election, the Democrats will continue to blame falling access to abortion services on the Supreme Court and their overturning of Roe v. Wade – and by association, on conservatives/Republicans. But in the end they will only be hurting women in the name of politics and power.

The “Women’s Health Protection Act of 2022” (why it’s not called the politically-correct “Birther’s Health Protection Act of 2022” is beyond me) does this by failing to limit the time frame in which an abortion can be obtained, instead applying a subjective viability standard determined solely by the physician. From the bill:

VIABILITY.—The term “viability” means the point in a pregnancy at which, in the good-faith medical judgment of the treating health care provider, based on the particular facts of the case before the health care provider, there is a reasonable likelihood of sustained fetal survival outside the uterus with or without artificial support.

This viability standard is ripe for abuse. What’s to stop an unscrupulous doctor from determining – for a fee – that your third trimester fetus is not viable, thus allowing it to be aborted? If the bill had proposed at least some reasonable viability term – even the 24 week standard in effect under Roe and Casey – it would at least have had a chance. But an undefined standard that effectively allows abortion right up to birth? I don’t think that’s going to garner any Republican (or conservative Democrat) votes.

But of course, it’s not meant to…

It was the job of Congress to pass abortion legislation way back in 1973. Instead, they forced the Supreme Court to wander into clearly political territory with Roe v. Wade to save members of Congress from having to take a tough political stance.

Furious Elizabeth Warren rallies protesters outside Supreme Court: ‘We are not going back!’

Ms. Warren: Please get your ignorant, misinformation-peddling ass back to the Senate and pass an abortion rights bill – just like your brethren should have done in 1973. Work out a compromise that attracts enough votes to overcome the filibuster hurdle. And don’t even think about eliminating the filibuster – have you forgotten already how badly that has worked out for you and your friends so far? Are you so daft as to not see the impact of the escalation that arose out of Harry Reid’s “nuclear option”?

And stop claiming that the Supreme Court has acted in a political manner with respect to this case. The true “political act” was the original Roe v. Wade decision forced upon the court by Congress’s lack of action. Your criticizing the Supreme Court for finally correcting a bad decision made necessary by a failure of Congress is … well … hypocritical.