That conservative legal scholar is off her rocker if she thinks this has the potential to be a unifying moment for women

Pro choice does not mean Anti-life. I am also pro life. I just think that the species, and the nation, will survive if individual people are given the right to choose.

Separation of church and state is in the Constitution, The Supreme Court should know this. Your religion shouldn't have any say in US LAWS. I say remove those justices' who lied under oath during their confirmation hearings.

Clarence Thomas...What about when your co workers decide to rethink Loving Vs. Virginia (1967)?

This is a health care issue in other countries. As a 76 year old woman who fought for this right, I am deeply sad and afraid for the future of this country but, more than anything, scared for poor women who can't take time off work and don't have the resources to travel to another state to avoid having another child they can't support.

So a stillborn baby is worth saving instead of a women that could actually live? It’s cruel to force a women to care a already dead baby to full term, or a child a product of rape or incest, I do agree that people need to be more responsible when it comes to having a child, but people deserve a choice not all pregnancy is consensual. This anti-abortion ruling is just gonna lead to an increase in heath problems, such as suicide and depression and kids ending up in foster care without a family, because there isn’t enough children already there already.

The Constitution Needs A Declared " Right To Privacy" Added. To Handle So Many Things.

This has been an insane week in the Supreme Court, for sure.

Thomas literally wrote that SCOTUS should review those cases which address gay marriage, contraception, and even the legality of homosexuality. Those programs, which would have supported women and helped them to not choose abortion (a choice they no longer have), are consistently voted against, and have their funding cut by, Republicans.

Can you imagine the increase of foster care that these unwanted births will go into. Most teenagers having children , don't have the means to provide for a child , whether it is financially or mentally. Children may suffer if in fact these children never get adopted and go thru the foster care route. Will the government then help with the surge of children in a foster care situation?

They are no better than the Ayatollahs in the middle east. Freedoms must be fought for, especially separation of Church and State. There was a good reason then and there is a good reason now to uphold it. I was raised Catholic, but this makes me ashamed to see the religious meddling so personally in the destinies of others.

Have Americans not the right to initiate a referendum? In Switzerland we do that all the time, because we live in a DIRECT DEMOCRACY, the best worldwide, even Wikipedia says so.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg was not a fan of Roe vs Wade reasoning. She said that say just the opposite, that Roe was a faulty decision. For Ginsburg, the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision that affirmed a woman’s right to an abortion was too far-reaching and too sweeping, and it gave anti-abortion rights activists a very tangible target to rally against in the four decades since. Ginsburg also was troubled that the focus on Roe was on a right to privacy, rather than women’s rights.

Where was all this my body my choice with the vaccines? Honest question

This is sickening. When I was a girl coming of age I felt fortunate to live in a nation that protected my privacy and personal life choices. I read a lot about the struggles of women in other parts of the world and I wished they had the same access to an education, healthcare, votings etc like I had here in the USA. I can’t believe that at my 36 years of age this is no longer true. I’ve never had an abortion and will never need one but this is not the point.

It’s about the political power of religious fundamentalists in America. That’s why America is so different from other nations on abortion and some other issues

“An overwhelming majority believe abortion should be legal in most cases.” Really?? Let the voters decide and put that statement to the test.

I am 36 years old and 14 weeks pregnant with my first child - a very wanted child that my husband and I tried for months to conceive. My first ultrasound to find the heartbeat (two weeks after the plus sign on the stick) was the morning after the decision leaked. And I cannot fathom the horror of being forced by law to go through all the trials and tribulations of pregnancy if it were against my will. And remember, even if you "do the right things" like use contraception, stay healthy or wait until financial stability and marriage to get pregnant, THIS CAN STILL AFFECT YOU. Remember the cases in Poland and Ireland where women with wanted pregnancies had deadly complications and eventually died because the only treatment required an abortion of the pregnancy, which the doctors had to refuse until the baby's heart stopped beating first - which meant they had to wait to treat them until the women were beyond saving. Because with these abortion bans, even with exceptions "for the life of the mother", risking the woman's life by waiting to treat her is not as big a crime as ending a pregnancy before the fetus dies first, because only the latter is *murder*/s 🙄 and doctors will end up erring on the side of not going to jail, even if it kills women.

There should be laws from the Senate to regulate the Tenure of all these Supreme court Justices; it should not be a life thing for them; thats why some of them dont care anymore....Some of them lied in order to be confirmed to be there, also some of them are messing up things in that Supreme court

Here's the solution, if you don't want and abortion, don't get one.

how is that the judges may bring their personal beliefs into their rulings in the State? are they not supposed to be impartial? these judges have a proven track record of 'defending the life of the unborn'...that should have been enough to have them removed from trial in the interest of justice...oh, you know the thing that they are meant to be there to effectuate, FFS!

an elderly person just yelled at me outside of an old navy, " i own your body now!!!" ty for saying the quit part out loud sir....

It’s not in the constitution, duh

I have never had an abortion, well over the age of conception, but I defend to the ground having a constitutional right, BUT, MORE IMPORTANTLY, having control over my own body regarding my reproductive organs, and NO ONE ELSE! I have always been an advocate of pro-choice. I do not know others circumstances, and, consequently, no judgments. I’m perplexed by all the hypocrisy regarding right to life, but no solution regarding once born, killing by degrees. I expect (fantasy) all the advocates of overturning Roe vs Wade to commit to resolving the care and funding for these lives forced into the systematic abuse.

So now we are going to have childcare at places of employment? We are going to have sex education? Give contraceptives? Because people will not stop having sex, people will not stop being raped or incest or another form. Men will be given contraceptives? Men will be held accountable for impregnation? Women do not get pregnant alone.

Terra nullius is a Latin expression meaning "nobody's land". It was a principle sometimes used in international law to justify claims that territory may be acquired by a state's occupation of it. The State is occupying Vaginas.

There was *NEVER* a right to abortion to begin with. Ancient English law decreed that at the point a woman "quickened" (the point at which a child could be detected moving inside her) the child had the same legal protections as a born human. This included charging the murderer of the pregnant mother with double-homicide. Those ancient English laws are the basis of the English Common Law that informed the foundation of the American legal system. When the 14th Amendment was past, over 20 state laws banning abortion completely were on the books, and not a one was struck down because of its adoption. Most of those laws stayed on the books until the arrival of Roe vs. Wade.

State's should have the Right to decide not the FED

No sane person WANTS to have an abortion, nor the idea of it, but it's a necessary procedure to save women's lives.

Put it in the Constitution and be done with it.

I wish separation of church and state was better understood and upheld.

Small government eh? Hypocrisy.

Why don't we stop talking about the vision. And let's talk about what the constitution meant for these supreme Court justices to make this decision???

What happens to the fathers of these babies? Do they get criminalised for getting women pregnant? Why is it always about punishing women?

Amazes me the contradictions on the right…I think they just like to make others miserable…they’ve all be praying for this while living lives of stark hypocrisy.

These young women who support this time in our history have no idea what they are facing and it’s sad for them. It’s a sad and terrible time for women of child bearing age.

Wow! I now live in the OPPRESSED ZONE OF THE UNITED STATES. Please, please vote blue. They have $10,000 bounties.

"The difference between white and black females seemed to me an eminently satisfactory one. White females were ladies, said the sign maker, worthy of respect. And the quality that made ladyhood worthy?Softness, helplessness, and modesty--which I interpreted as a willingness to let others do their labor and their thinking. Colored females, on the other hand, were women--unworthy of respect, independent, and immodest." ~ Toni Morrison, American novelist, essayist, editor and professor

Men have no idea how many women will die from this decision. It’s a terrible day in America!

"I've noticed that those who are for abortion have already been born." Ronald Reagan

HEY Clarence Thomas ... what about Loving vs Virginia maybe that is Unconstitutional.

This is incredible. We are going backwards.

In the United States of America there is the separation of Church and State. This is a State issue and certainly not a Church issue which is a private, individual matter that should never interfere with the laws of this country.

Ironic that a conservative Supreme Court which will mould the country's future for decades to come was gifted the nation by a libertine New Yorker for the sake of ego-driven fame and power.

A mind-boggling time in America (we now join El Salvador, Poland, and Nicaragua as the only countries without abortion rights). And that "we need to get rid of contraception law too" little pile of #@$% Judge Thomas and his wife definitely need to go!

A Woman has a right to choose. Not so-called religious leaders. Not the government. And not the supreme Court

Just one more thing to divide the country. Reading just a few of the comments shows the sensitivity on both sides of the issue. And men deciding on issues for women? Nothing new there. At a time when many men act like children themselves, that is, act irresponsibly and leave the women to raise the children, The "Supreme" Court could not be more out of touch with the current state of life in America.

I wonder what man in the government office decided to not do apportion and attacking women at war .with there body...

This issue is a right to privacy in medical procedures matter, not just an abortion matter. This says that your private health matters can be invaded by someone that can deny you care, deny you coverage, deny you employment. This puts someone else in charge of your medical decisions, without your consent or consideration. This will not only affect women. This will affect men as well. Honestly, I don't think anyone will see the beast they've awakened until it's too late, it's already too late. Women will not go back to the time they want us to without mobilization. Complacency is over.

Life is overrated.

It seems inevitable that Contraception, gay marriage, and a series of laws intended to criminalize and target "gay sex," are on the chopping block. You cannot focus on abortion and the life claims as somehow unique. Roe and Casey ultimately exist because SCOTUS determined that Rights such as Right to Privacy exist in the Constitution. This court says that determination and those derivative that began with Griswald do not exist in the Constitution. Contraception, gay marriage, and other current rights, although factually different than Roe, rely on the foundational recognition of Right to Privacy as well. Their Constitutional underpinnings have vanished IN DOBBS. That seems quite intentional as Dobbs only asked to affirm the 15 week ban and SCOTUS went far beyond the case facts. That is activism. It is inconsistent with conservative judicial philosophy involving Stare Decisis. It reminds that Lochner and what came before was a very pro business anti worker activism and in 2022 a new form seems here for some time. Whether states will actually ban contraception is not clear. Likely there will be a split. Gay marriage the same. In 2022 younger people might think SCOTUS as THEOCRATIC. If you look at America before Griswald religious ideas played a much larger role in policy than today. Back then contraception was not thought of generally in terms of disease, health, and family planning as it is today. AIDS created a giant shift in awareness. Back then the religious focus was coercing abstinence. Make the consequences of a an unwanted baby more likely and you deter fornication. Part of the deterence was the consequences. That drove support much more than the ever refining right to life movement. I expect that actual motivation will feel safe enough to show itself again. Big difference is the people who won are a shrinking part of the population.

these women are happy til their right to vote is taken next.

Well, there is nothing wrong with being pro-life while advocating for the unborn but there is something wrong with "advocating" for the unborn, using the term "pro-life" and not caring about their lives after they are born. Pro-choice is not the same as pro-abortion. Pro-abortionist are people who believe in aborting regardless of the reason. Many people in pro-choice believes in a middle ground, exceptions. Others believe that exceptions should not be limited Pro-choice just believes in the right to choose dispite public opinion as long as their choice is not out of malice or hateful intent. They believe that Abortion shouldn't be the first resort, but it shouldn't be a illegal/prohibited option either. If there is a woman who have been horribly exploited but she wants to keep the baby, then she should keep her baby and she should not be discriminated against. However, if there is another women with similar experience and simply can't handle it after she thought about it then she should not be discriminated either. It does not mean that she was evil or weak just because she choose to abort her baby. If she can't do it then she shouldn't be forced to. Most of pro-life shouldn't judge. They can't handle wearing a undesired mask in a pandemic for 9 seconds, but highly expect woman/children to carry an undesired baby from their abuser's for 9 months. Also cases like Roe v Wade or Obergefell v Hodges, Brown v Board of Education and Griswold v Connecticut are not in the constitution. That's why they were in the Equal Protection Clause under groups of amendments. These are not rights because they may or may not offend God. These are rights because they protect people from others who believe that they are God! I know that they are many good people who are pro-life and choice despite their beliefs. I admire pro-life when they don't believe in dictating the lives of others just because they can pick up the bible and read a few scriptures. I love them for that. However, I don't appreciate when others pretend to be "pro-life" when they are actually just pro-fetus/birth and call women/even children who abort b*tches, who*es, serial killers, and baby murders when they themselves are very hostile against women and children they don't even know nor have any idea what they been through. Instead of helping them through their time of need. They want women who abort to be greatly prosecuted or executed... If they are unwilling to love women who abort the same way they love women who don't, then why are they calling themselves pro-life? Edit: I have been thinking about this, but despite what I may personally believe. Everything is not black and white. They have all shades of grey areas that are usually ignored or dismissed as "another easy solution" compared to another. We shouldn't judge others if we haven't been in their shoes because they are many cases where pro-life were only pro-choice when it was convenient to them. In other words, other abortions are immortal except their own and then they still use the same pro-life rhetoric or tactics, which seems fine but it's not fine when religious abuse or harassment comes to play.

Just from the way the RADICAL conservative judges wrote, you can read that they are plainly stating that this is a PERSONAL VENDETTA, not anything like a constitutional issue.

I don't understand the control these conservatives want -- in many cases this has nothing to do with them personally -- abortion, contraception, same-sex marriage, yet they have incredibly strong opinions on things that don't concern them -- and if it's religion-based, true Christians are supposed to love thy neighbor, not judge and restrict them. The defense of the pro-life legal scholar was really weak -- the way Congress and state legislatures work, these issues will not get solved to the point that abortion isn't necessary; typical deflection tactic.

I'm very because the states need to have freedom to decide for themselves! If you don't like your state's decision, you can move!

Roe v. Wade was an example of the court acting as Congress. That is why a bunch of rulings should go. The Supreme Court should not make law.

So odd that more Americans are concerned about inflation instead of the assaults on democracy and personal rights. Inflation will end but our way of life is at stake to end.

Erika Bachiochi chose the wrong pulpit in her career path. America isn't a theocracy...yet.

Lets pass a law that child birth supersedes prenuptial agreements, trust accounts, and burdens all financial responsibilities onto the male. While making the woman the controlling interest of all finances

Abortion is not a constitutional issue! Those protesting government; do you want federal gov controlling your choice over your body? Didnt think so!!! Now you have a say so. Vote in your state 😉

These people have a loose imagination.

They can't do this. The politicians have to reverse this stupid decision.

The conservative scholar lady said that us women need to get together and figure things out. She can get together with herself cuz I don't need anybody to get together with to know that I want the rights over my own body. If they want to have a little uterus club and tell each other what to do with each other's bodies go right ahead, but count me and millions of other women out.

Control , Power and Greed , Roe versus Wade and its impact upon Republican and Democratic , Young women , Ted Cruz , Greg Abbott , Clarence Thomas , Mitch McConnell , Christian evangelicals etc..

"The unborn" are a convenient group of people to advocate for. They never make demands of you; they are morally uncomplicated, unlike orphans, they don't need money, education, or childcare; they allow you to feel good about yourself without any work at creating or maintaining relationships; and when they are born, you can forget about them, because they cease to be unborn. It's almost as if, by being born, they have died to you. You can love the unborn and advocate for them without substantially challenging your own wealth, power, or privilege, without re-imagining social structures, apologizing, or making reparations to anyone. They are, in short, the perfect people to love if you want to claim you love Jesus but actually dislike people who breathe

Now you can say "woman" and promote violence????

If your students are "shocked" about this decision then you are a poor teacher of constitutional law. Shame on you.

"Stripped away Constitutional rights...",so very sick of liberal MSMs opinions hammered at us as if antiabortion opinions are evil. Thanks Scotus for properly interpreting the Constitution.

Corporations+ Churches= No Taxes.

Injustice Alito....is Egregiously WRONG👎👎👎👎👎

There is now a need for another Underground Railroad to get women to free states.. republicans consider this to be progress

This was the fireworks before the 4th of july .

It was never the courts job to give a right to anyone in the first place.It was a conservative SCOTUS that reversed a horrible decision by a Conservative SCOTUS.

It is only your body & your choice to take steps to avoid a human conception. After conception it is the unborn's body/life you are choosing to eliminate due to inconvenience

Loving was decided on Equal Protection grounds. Roe was decided on Substantive Due Process grounds . One would think a law professor would know those distinctions.

We have to vote them out of power ,no small minority should have the right to dictate how we conduct our lives,it should be the will of the people,not the will of Mitch and his Supreme Court judges ! This is not about life is about controlling woman’s rights ! We have a shameless Supreme Court

This reporting is disastrous from the first sentence. Nowhere in the constitution does it promise a woman's right to have an abortion. And the right to an abortion wasn't "stripped away", it was relegated back to each individual State to decide. We live in a democracy and the people of each state once again have the power to elect governors in their state to represent their values and govern accordingly. RvW was bad law back in 1973. Medicine and biology have come revealed how antiquated the law was. The SCOTUS is holding the country to the constitution and centering the nation after being misaligned on some social issues for decades, and generations. Have these reporters ever taken a civics class?

I think that the next law should be men also being responsible for a woman being pregnant. If you made abortion illegal, supreme court, then men should bear the consequence as well. They should also be criminalized if their child was aborted. There should be more help for domestic violence and rape victims, not restricting ways that they can get out of a toxic relationship. Women are the ones who gets all the blame and had to suffer. Even though we know very well that a woman can't be pregnant by herself if the man aren't involved. It is because this world ruled by men that's why their are rules that exists to push women down, while a man can just brush off his responsibilities. It is sickening.

2:22 She says it right the truth right there. The Supreme Court does not make laws, so it needed to be given back to legislatures.

So upset about the possibility of taking responsibility for your actions. So stunning and brave.

Erica Bakiaki, How can you think that after 50 years of your side protesting the Roe decision, now with it's reversal the other side is just going to give up and fall in line, and start working with you on "other issues" facing women? That has to be the dumbest statement I've heard in a long time.

Wasn’t Reagan the first one to make sure abortion was legal in California?

what's next? overturning the 19th amendment of course!

You cannot argue with any religious zealots. They are convinced that only their way is the right way. But you can name them and warn about their dèeds at home and abroad.

Thomas has a white wife. What is he doing talking out of both sides of his mounth?

Ok now. It has never been a true right of anyone to have an abortion. According to the constitution it's up to the states to make laws for their states that the constitution has not ratified. And I am happy the supreme Court did their jobs

Correction: Supreme Court Rescinding American Rights

It should have never been rote to begin with! I stand for the unborn child.

WHAT CRIMES WAS COMMITTED BY THE BABY TO WARRANT THE DEATH PENALITY?

Alito was egregiously wrong from the start.

If democrats are mad about an issue, it must be good for the country

Jane Roe, whom we now know as Norma McCorvey, was just 21 years old when she became pregnant for the third time and sought an abortion in the state of Texas. Texas law, however, stated that a woman could only undergo an abortion if the mother’s life was at risk. McCorvey was put in contact with two lawyers, Linda Coffee and Sarah Weddington, who were looking for a pregnant woman to help them build a case to legalize abortion. McCorvey lied and said she had been raped. That lie became the basis for the legal fight against the District Attorney of Dallas County, Henry Wade. The lawyers knew that the case would never be finished in time for McCorvey to get an abortion and she ended up giving birth and placing the child for adoption. McCorvey not only admitted later on that she had lied about being raped, but she became pro-life and worked to end legal abortion up until her death in 2017.

It will be very profitable for medical facilities in the States not so backward.

If poor Black women are the main women seeking an abortion the government s can easily remedy poverty. and use propaganda to support family values that should be taught at home and not by proxy.

Roe was bad precedent (even Lawrence Tribe and Ruth Ginsburg thought so) and not worthy of stare decisis. Congress can change the law if they want. Otherwise, the states can decide reflecting their population’s views on the matter. This is ideal IMO.

They didn't rewrite any right.The SCOTUS had no right whatsoever to give a right in the first place.

isn't it just possible that the Constitution does not mention abortion because it was considered a 'condition' of the woman citizen?

Nothing was rewritten, having abortion was never written in the constitution In the first place.

These radical conservatives on SCOTUS embody the very reason why term limits need to be enacted retroactively. NO ONE in our three branches of government should EVER have a lifetime appointment, especially justices that wield more power than the President who appoints them.