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It's important to note that the idea that Roe was decided incorrectly, is a myth perpetuated by fedsoc and other reactionaries. And the liberal legal academics

It's important to note that the idea that Roe was decided incorrectly, is a myth perpetuated by fedsoc and other reactionaries. And the liberal legal academics did nothing to counter it.

thehappypm 4y ago
It’s not a myth.
- rhinoceraptor 4y ago
  Only if you buy in to the reactionary attack on substantive due process in general. And it's a mistake to think if Roe were decided any other way, that it still wouldn't have been overturned. Reactionaries do a great job of smuggling their politics as socially acceptable, fictional legal frameworks like textualism, even though they clearly abandon that whenever it is in conflict with their politics.
keneda7 4y ago
I am confused here. Are you saying these are all myths? https://www.newsweek.com/ruth-bader-ginsburg-roe-wade-abortion-scotus-1702948 https://www.newsweek.com/ruth-bader-ginsburg-roe-wade-aborti... https://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-offers-critique-roe-v-wade-during-law-school-visit https://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/justice-ruth-bader-ginsbur... https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/05/06/ruth-bader-ginsburg-roe-wade/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/05/06/ruth-bader... Seems to me RGB did feel that ruling was weak and should have decided based on equal protections not privacy.
- rhinoceraptor 4y ago
  Do you really think they wouldn't still overturn if it was decided based on equal protection? We should not fall into the trap of deifying the court. They are not above politics and they never have been. And they didn't rule against it because of the privacy angle. They ruled against it because they are trying to destroy the jurisprudence of substantive due process and unenumerated rights, because it serves their reactionary politics.
danpalmer 4y ago
To clarify, I think it was the right decision, for a weak but correct reason. Ideally it would have been decided for the reasons of bodily autonomy.

It's important to note that the idea that Roe was decided incorrectly, is a myth perpetuated by fedsoc and other reactionaries. And the liberal legal academics did nothing to counter it.

thehappypm 4y ago

It’s not a myth.

rhinoceraptor 4y ago
Only if you buy in to the reactionary attack on substantive due process in general. And it's a mistake to think if Roe were decided any other way, that it still wouldn't have been overturned. Reactionaries do a great job of smuggling their politics as socially acceptable, fictional legal frameworks like textualism, even though they clearly abandon that whenever it is in conflict with their politics.

keneda7 4y ago

I am confused here. Are you saying these are all myths? https://www.newsweek.com/ruth-bader-ginsburg-roe-wade-abortion-scotus-1702948 https://www.newsweek.com/ruth-bader-ginsburg-roe-wade-aborti... https://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-offers-critique-roe-v-wade-during-law-school-visit https://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/justice-ruth-bader-ginsbur... https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/05/06/ruth-bader-ginsburg-roe-wade/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/05/06/ruth-bader... Seems to me RGB did feel that ruling was weak and should have decided based on equal protections not privacy.

rhinoceraptor 4y ago
Do you really think they wouldn't still overturn if it was decided based on equal protection? We should not fall into the trap of deifying the court. They are not above politics and they never have been. And they didn't rule against it because of the privacy angle. They ruled against it because they are trying to destroy the jurisprudence of substantive due process and unenumerated rights, because it serves their reactionary politics.

danpalmer 4y ago

To clarify, I think it was the right decision, for a weak but correct reason. Ideally it would have been decided for the reasons of bodily autonomy.