McBurney’s ruling would allow abortions through at least 20 weeks of pregnancy.
Fuck. Yes. Sometimes it takes awhile to discover major problems.
The forced birthers don’t have a credible respond to the judges decision. The judge words are cold stone facts about this issue. Anyone who thinks they can tell women what to do and not do with their bodies either are low level religious nut jobs, middle level politicians trying to make a buck, or high level oligarchs that need a poor, unhealthy, uneducated, and subservient population. None of those people should be in charge of a toaster oven let alone deciding on what happens to someone else’s body.
They’ll appeal anyways, all the way to SCOTUS. It’s part of their overall strategy.
If you look at the ruling, the judge went in HARD:
*Women are not some piece of collectively owned community property the disposition of which is decided by majority vote. Forcing a woman to carry an unwanted, not-yet-viable fetus to term violates her constitutional rights to liberty and privacy, even taking into consideration whatever bundle of rights the not-yet-viable fetus may have.
And:
For these women, the liberty of privacy means that they alone should choose whether they serve as human incubators for the five months leading up to viability. It is not for a legislator, a judge, or a Commander from The Handmaid’s Tale to tell these women what to do with their bodies during this period when the fetus cannot survive outside the womb any more so than society could – or should – force them to serve as a human tissue bank or to give up a kidney for the benefit of another.
The literal hero we need right now.
This bits great too:
While the State’s interest in protecting “unborn” life is compelling, until that life can be sustained by the State – and not solely by the woman compelled by the Act to do the State’s work – the balance of rights favors the woman.
Beautiful. Thank you.
Sounds like a good judge.
Holy crap that’s amazing!
