The Supreme Court may kill Roe v. Wade as soon as this week
The final days of the right to choose are nigh.
IAN MILLHISER
JAN 28, 2019, 4:38 PM
Lawyers representing a Louisiana abortion clinic and at least two physicians filed an application in the Supreme Court on Monday asking the court to halt a Louisiana law that is identical to a Texas law the justices struck down in 2016.
The court is almost certain to deny this application in a 5-4 vote — possibly as soon as tonight. When it does so, it will effectively mark the end of Roe v. Wade.
Yes, the court is very unlikely to hand down an opinion this week which uses the words “Roe v. Wade is overruled.” But these abortion providers filed this application because a federal appeals court openly defied the Supreme Court’s most recent abortion decision. When the court refuses to enforce its own decision, that will send a clear signal to lower court judges throughout the country that they are free to uphold restrictions on abortion.
The case is June Medical Services v. Gee.
Gee involves a Louisiana law requiring “a physician performing or inducing an abortion” to “have active admitting privileges at a hospital that is located not further than thirty miles from the location at which the abortion is performed or induced and that provides obstetrical or gynecological health care services.” If that law sounds familiar, that’s because it is identical, almost word-for-word, to a Texas law that the Supreme Court struck down in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt.
https://thinkprogress.org/supreme-court-may-kill-roe-v-this-week-a014778b1db9/
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The smart money, however, will bet that the court will vote along party lines to deny a stay of the Fifth Circuit’s decision. Just last May, while Kennedy was still on the court, the Supreme Court allowed an Arkansas anti-abortion law to take effect despite the fact that a lower court decision upholding that law was also at odds with Whole Woman’s Health. And the court has only grown more anti-abortion since May.
Should the Supreme Court deny a stay in the Gee case, moreover, anti-abortion judges will know exactly what that means. It will be a clear signal that they can emulate the Fifth Circuit and openly defy Supreme Court decisions protecting a right to abortion.
Roe v. Wade will die a quiet death, the Supreme Court won’t even have to kill it.
IN my opinion, the last two right wing Federalist Society Justices on this court should be impeached and or annulled, and "all" of the judges coming through the corrupt Mitch McConnell system should also be removed...........
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... but if they do this, it would mobilize every non-fundie voter in the US to vote for Democrats in 2020. It would prove how stupid and dangerous these people are to ALL Americans, not just the libs/progressives.
Here's a clue: even the Libertarians are against overturning Roe v. Wade. If they say they aren't, they're lying to throw a bone to the "religious right."
The post was offensive. The "edit" didn't help. And the lame justification/excuse being offered only makes it worse.
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Buddy, you’d better look again at who’s trying to save our asses in this country and BOW DOWN to those women. 
Wow, sexist much?
Time for a rude awakening for this one.
handing out packets of KY jelly?
... whether I should be a mother or not, and it's every other woman's personal decision to make. I could be against abortion (maybe even for religious reasons) but I have no right to make somebody else's decision FOR THEM based on MY religion. That's why our laws need to be pro-choice, and for the most part they are pro-choice, thanks to the Roe v. Wade decision.
EffieBlack I don't believe the Supreme Court will get bogged down in this, it's established law now.
And, if so, does this put pressure on him? Also, suppose abortion was overturned and Kavanope was later impeached; would the decision be called into question? 
