Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights per draft opinion (Update: Dobbs opinion official)

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Not long ago Kari Lake proclaimed Arizona's abortion law was a great law and wanted it the law of the state.

Now that she has gotten her way, she is lobbying for it to be repealed.

As I have been saying since 2022, the overwhelming vast majority of women aren't going to vote for the man who proudly boasts that he got rid of Roe V. Wade. Nor are those women going to vote for a forced birther politician.

Turns out, republican belief in "pro life" was all just lies to get votes. Who is surprised? I sure am not.

How many forced birthers will do the same about face?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/ka ... r-BB1ltx3I.

Arizona Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake is actively lobbying state lawmakers to overturn a 160-year-old law she once supported that bans abortion in almost all cases, a source with knowledge of her efforts told CNN.

 

[superchuck500]

Maybe, but that won’t stop them from trying.

That's not what Dobbs held. Dobbs held that there is no constitutional basis for a federally-protected right to an abortion. The result is that it is left to the states (based on how federalism works) but the holding isn't specifically that "abortion is for the states to decide" ergo there's no basis for it in federal law.

These are similar concepts but not mutually exclusive - just because there's no basis for an abortion right embedded there in the Constitution doesn't necessarily mean that Congress has no power to enact abortion law. Congress could still attempt to pass a nationwide abortion law that could stand if found to be a lawful exercise of Congress' limited power. I tend to agree that it's difficult for Congress to articulate such a basis in a persuasive way - the options would include the Commerce power (regulating interstate commerce), the Spending power (attaching abortion-related rules to federal funds), or the 14th Amendment's 'life, liberty, without due process" clause but each of these has significant concerns. There's a great summary from the CRS (below).

I don't think it's a proper exercise of federal legislative power . . . but you know how these things go, it's not entirely predictable.

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10787