Tag: Jackson Women’s Health Organization
The Supreme Court’s Colorado Opinion Is About Fear, Not Law
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You can’t always get what you want. What Mick Jagger said about life applies with equal, perhaps even greater, force to litigation. Like life, litigation has its ups and downs. It reflects human fears and frailties—because judges, lawyers, and litigants are human. Law is never perfect, and never will be.
And so it is with the United States
How Financial Strength Weakened American Feminism
By the time the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year, many Americans had already opened their wallets to protest. In the approximately 24 hours after the Court’s opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization leaked early, the Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue raised $12 million, and Reproductive Freedom for All’s donations increased by 1,400 percent. According to one researcher, more than 300 crowdfunded GoFundMe campaigns drew in nearly $3.2 million in the seven months between the
The Abortion Backlash Reaches Ohio
Officially, abortion had nothing to do with the constitutional amendment that Ohio voters rejected today. The word appeared nowhere on the ballot, and no abortion laws will change as a result of the outcome.
Practically and politically, however, the defeat of the ballot initiative known as Issue 1 was all about abortion, giving reproductive-rights advocates the latest in a series of victories in the year since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Fearing the passage of an abortion-rights
The Supreme Court Justice Who Championed Judicial Restraint
In September 1953, with the Supreme Court only months away from rehearing oral argument in Brown v. Board of Education, Justice Felix Frankfurter received word while vacationing in Massachusetts that Chief Justice Fred Vinson had died suddenly of a heart attack. Returning to Washington so that he could attend Vinson’s funeral, Frankfurter bumped into his former law clerk Philip Elman in Union Station. Frankfurter did not exactly appear staggered by grief. To the contrary, Elman observed the
How to Fix the Bias Against Free Speech on Campus
A recent investigation of eight abortion-rights supporters at American University, in Washington, D.C., offers yet more evidence that college administrators and diversity-and-inclusion bureaucrats—some of whom undermine free speech as if their job duties demanded it—need new checks on their power.
This matter began in May, shortly after the Supreme Court’s draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization leaked, prompting numerous law students at American to join an online chat about the impending diminution of abortion rights. One student
Reversal of Roe May Be Just the Beginning
Should the Supreme Court’s final ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization resemble Justice Samuel Alito’s leaked draft opinion, it will be an unprecedented moment in the annals of the Court. Never before has the Court reversed its own decisions in order to completely eliminate a recognized constitutional right protecting personal conduct—and here one that thousands of people turn to every year. Probably on that account, the overwhelming majority of the American people oppose the action that the Court
‘There’s So Much That’s Not in the Constitution’
During oral argument at the Supreme Court in December over Mississippi’s abortion ban, Justice Sonia Sotomayor laid bare a fundamental truth: “There’s so much that’s not in the Constitution.”
Her point is a deep one, and salient to the abortion debate: The text of the Constitution does not explicitly affirm the right to abortion; no one disagrees with that. But the Constitution protects far more than what it literally describes. Unwritten ideas necessarily guide even the strictest readings of the
Was ‘Roe’ damit aufnehmen könnte
Der Konsens der Beobachter des Obersten Gerichtshofs nach der mündlichen Verhandlung vom Mittwoch in Frauengesundheitsorganisation Dobbs v. Jackson ist das der Untergang von Roe gegen Wade, oder zumindest ihre Verwässerung bis zu einem Punkt, an dem praktisch jede von der Regierung auferlegte „Belastung“ der Abtreibung verfassungsrechtlich akzeptabel wäre. Immerhin erlaubte dieses Gericht einem texanischen Gesetz, das die meisten Abtreibungen nach sechs Wochen effektiv verbietet, anhängig von Rechtsstreitigkeiten und lehnte mehrere Plädoyer für einen vorübergehenden Aufenthalt ab – ein deutliches
Republikaner hoffen, dass ihr Angriff auf die Demokratie eine Gegenreaktion nach dem Roe stoppen wird
Das verfassungsmäßige Recht der Frauen, über die Geburt von Kindern zu entscheiden, scheint an einem seidenen Faden zu hängen. Bei der gestrigen mündlichen Verhandlung im Fall von Dobbs v. Jackson Frauengesundheitsorganisation, zeigten die von den Republikanern ernannten Richter des Obersten Gerichtshofs einen Eifer, ihn zu stürzen Roe gegen Wade, der rechtliche Präzedenzfall, der Staaten daran hindert, Abtreibungen zu verbieten. Das ist keine Überraschung – um genau dieses Ziel hat die konservative Rechtsbewegung einen jahrzehntelangen politischen Kampf geführt. Der
Das Ende von Roe
Wer sich heute die mündliche Diskussion zum Thema Abtreibung anhörte, konnte nicht übersehen, dass etwas Historisches geschah. Der Fall, Frauengesundheitsorganisation Dobbs v. Jackson, beinhaltet ein Mississippi-Gesetz, das Abtreibungen nach 15 Wochen verbietet. Ein solches Verbot ist nach geltendem Recht eindeutig verfassungswidrig –Roe gegen Wade und dessen Nachfolgefall, Geplante Elternschaft von Südost-Pennsylvania gegen Casey, erkennen ein Recht an, einen Schwangerschaftsabbruch bis zur Lebensfähigkeit des Fötus zu wählen, das sind ungefähr 24 Wochen. Um das Gesetz von Mississippi aufrechtzuerhalten, … Read more