‘Roe v. Wade was on a collision course with the Constitution from the day it was decided.’
Excerpts from Justice Alito’s draft decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
Roe found that the Constitution implicitly conferred a right to obtain an abortion, but it failed to ground its decision in text, history, or precedent.
It relied on an erroneous historical narrative; it devoted great attention to and presumably relied on matters that have no bearing on the ‘meaning of the Constitution; it disregarded the fundamental difference between the precedents on which it relied and the question before the Court; it concocted an elaborate set of rules, with different restrictions for each trimester of pregnancy, but it did not explain how this veritable code could be teased out of anything in the Constitution, the history of abortion laws, prior precedent, or any other cited source; and its most important rule (that States cannot protect fetal life prior to “viability”) was never raised by any party and has never been plausibly explained.
Overuling precedent
Some of our most important constitutional decisions have overruled prior precedents. … In Brown. v. Board of Education, the Court repudiated the “separate but equal” doctrine, which had allowed States to maintain racially segregated schools and other facilities. In so doing, the Court overruled the infamous decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U. S. 537 (1896), along with six other Supreme Court precedents that had applied the separate-but-equal rule.
Roe legislated from the bench
[Roe’s] elaborate [trimester] scheme was the Court’s own brainchild. Neither party advocated the trimester framework; nor did either party or any amicus argue that “viability” should ‘mark the point at which the scope of the abortion right and a State’s regulatory authority should be substantially transformed. … This scheme resemble[d] the work of a legislature. …
Roe certainly did not succeed in ending division on the issue of abortion. On the contrary, Roe “inflamed” a national issue that has remained bitterly divisive for the past half-century. … Indeed, in this case, 26 states expressly ask us to overrule Roe and Casey and return the issue of abortion to the people and their elected representatives.
Blaska Policy Werkes 
Paging Ms. Bernstein, paging Ms. Bernstein
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So the left is saying that this was a self-inflicted hit to make the left look bad.
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Another mostly peaceful protest by leftist “activists” (aka thugs, vandals, fanatics). Can you imagine the operatic outrage if this had been the Planned Parenthood headquarters?
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The Gotch is planning on protesting in front of one of Race-Hustler/bLack LIES Matter POS extraordinaire Patrisse Cullors’ six (6) homes.
Who’s with him…?
The Gotch
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Well apparently we have a terrorist group claiming responsibility for this attack — and promising many more violent attacks if their demands are not met.
Their rhetoric sounds like some bizarre mashup of BLM, Antifa, and the Symbionese Liberation Army.
Every law enforcement agency and government official in this state better get off their hind ends and put a stop to this right now.
Sure, it could be some extreme narcissists, likely young hardcore leftist ideologues, but whoever it is has already committed terrorism, arson, and threatened further violence.
They need to be caught, charged, and put away ASAP.
https://madison.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/group-claims-responsibility-for-attack-on-anti-abortion-organization-promises-more-violence/article_c56741e2-05fe-551f-ada9-078bf58db076.html
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You have to see this from Tucker Carlson titled: “Biden admin has no interest in protecting religious people”
https://video.foxnews.com/v/6305852229112#sp=show-clips
And this from the Washington Post:
“Justice Ginsburg thought Roe was the wrong case to settle abortion issue”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/05/06/ruth-bader-ginsburg-roe-wade/
Wow, when you see what is really going on, very unreported by the lame stream press, you have to make a decision, which side are you on? The side of the vile or the side of those who are standing for life, life that is guaranteed to all of us as Americans, by our Declaration of Independence and by our Creator.
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