Tucker talks about why Roe vs Wade is a bad idea regardless of one’s opinion of abortion, and how an as yet unnamed individual leaked an early decision on it, apparently in an attempt to reverse a decision that’s still a month or more away. Highlights include:
“The decision, as a decision, Roe v Wade is a widely acknowledged joke. Moral questions aside, Roe is the most embarrassing court decision handed down in the last century. Every part of it, from its invented Constitutional justification to its meaningless parameters mocks the idea of sober jurisprudence. The point of the Supreme Court is to interpret the Constitution. Abortion is not mentioned or alluded to in the Constitution. Roe is invented whole cloth, and if you don’t believe it, reread it 49 years later.”
“The fact that the Roe decision was, in fact, shoddy and shameful is hardly a partisan opinion. In fact, plenty of democrats, including a lot of ardent pro-choicers, have acknowledged that over the years because it’s true, and that would include, by the way, Joe Biden. Joe Biden has always supported legal abortion, but 9 years after the Roe decision was handed down, he was still willing to admit it was indefensible as a legal decision.”
“Then, as now, many Americans believe that abortion is murder. Many other Americans consider abortion a prerequisite to happiness. Now, those are unreconcilable positions, but thankfully, in a democracy we have a solution to quandaries like this, and it’s called voting. If we don’t like something in America, if we want to change it, we elect representatives to act on our behalf. If we do what we ask them to do, we reelect them, that’s the reward. If they don’t, we vote them out, that’s the punishment. That’s how our system works.”
“For hundreds of years, we have used that system to resolve plenty of complex and thorny moral issues. Not just abortion, many others, and it has worked well, and that’s why this has always been a stable country, because we get to rule ourselves. Roe vs Wade took that right away. In a single 1973 decision, the high court banned democracy from the debate over abortion. Justices prohibited the states from enacting abortion restrictions that their own citizens strongly preferred. That meant that going forward, Alabama would be required to have the same abortion laws as Massachusetts.”
“As a result of that, for nearly 50 years, this issue has festered. It has given Americans yet another reason to dislike each other, it has divided the country. And now, finally, after 49 years, voters might have their rightful say over what to do about abortion, as is their right. According to a piece last night in the blog Politico, the majority of justices on the Supreme Court are ready to overturn Roe. Justice Alito said so very clearly in a draft opinion that you can read yourself because it’s circulating on the internet.”
“Now, we shouldn’t be able to read that draft opinion, it’s not for public consumption. A final official decision on Roe is supposed to be months away, and yet an unnamed liberal operative short-circuited this ancient process which has worked well for hundreds of years. This person leaked the opinion, and not by accident. The point of leaking the opinion was to intimidate conservative justices into reversing course. Mob justice.”
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