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Dobbs Opened Up an Attack on Doctors

The Supreme Court decision overturning Roe has made bad law and bad medicine

Reason

Commentary: Why I’m racing to thaw my embryos

My husband and I have several frozen embryos in storage somewhere in suburban Rockville, Maryland. Over the past decade, this possibility to expand our family one day has held a place in our hearts. But now, we are rushing to fill out the paperwork to thaw and respectfully dispose of…

Tribune News Service

Chief Justice John Roberts tried to protect Roe but failed to persuade Supreme Court colleagues, report claims

Draft opinion leak led to renewed sense of urgency among conservatives to issue final opinion before it could face other obstacles

The Independent UK

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SCOTUS leak derailed effort to save Roe

Roberts tried to sway Justice Brett Kavanaugh before an unidentified leaker blew up his efforts

Salon

Alito's Dobbs decision: Bad theology

Alito's conception of morality, in his abortion decision, relies on a patriarchal theology most Americans reject

Salon

Overturning Roe is not making laws reflect what people want -- new survey highlights flaws in Supreme Court's reasoning in returning abortion authority to states

Since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision that overturned the constitutional right to an abortion, multiple states have enacted laws prohibiting or restricting women from obtaining an abortion.

The Conversation

For Legal Conservatives, Six Decades Of Folding, Followed By Sixteen Years To Draw A Full House

On the plus side, we had Rehnquist, Scalia, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett. On the down side, we had Roberts, Souter, Kennedy, O'Connor, Powell, Blackmun, Burger, Stewart, Whittaker, Brennan, and Warren.

Reason

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Editorial: After Dobbs, same-sex marriage could be threatened. Congress is right to codify it

With the upheaval caused by the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade came aftershocks of worry about what could come next. Could, as Justice Clarence Thomas suggested in his concurring opinion, same-sex marriage get lined up in the court’s crosshairs as a future target? Contraception? Interracial marriage?

Chicago Tribune

Supreme Court leak probe: So many questions, so few answers

Less than 24 hours after the unprecedented leak of the draft opinion that overturned Roe v_ Wade, Chief Justice John Roberts ordered an investigation into what he called an “egregious breach.”

The Independent UK

Heidi Stevens: The world is on fire. Why are we debating people's right to marry who they love?

I thought, naively it turns out, we might get to a point in my lifetime where we stop saying same-sex marriage. Where we just say marriage.

Tribune News Service

No, same-sex marriage is not "settled"

Most powerful voting bloc in the nation pushes the Republican Party into contentious culture wars before midterms

Salon

US House passes bill to protect right to same-sex and interracial marriage

The measure, partly a political strategy, forced Democrats and Republicans to record their view, and garnered bipartisan support

The Guardian - US

House to vote on same-sex marriage in an effort to push back against court

Tuesday's vote in the House is part political strategy in an election-year roll call that will force all lawmakers to go on the record with their views on the high-profile social issue.

WEKU

House to vote on same-sex marriage, push back against court

The House is set to vote to protect same-sex and interracial marriages

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Mic

Ted Cruz just issued a not-so-thinly veiled threat to gay marriage

The senator said the 'Obergefell' decision that legalized same-sex marriage was “clearly wrong.”

The Guardian - US

What the liberal justices’ scorching dissent reveals about the US supreme court

Opinions from Breyer, Kagan and Sotomayor send stark warning about increasingly radical court abandoning long-held principles

Axios

Group offers up to $250 for SCOTUS justices sightings after Kavanaugh protest

Prior to Roe being overturned, the federal government warned of a potential surge in political violence.

Salon

The week SCOTUS trashed the Constitution

Sam Alito and John Roberts appeal to "history and tradition" — while they dance around the burning Constitution

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Tribune News Service

Without Obergefell, most states would have same-sex marriage bans

The U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in 2015, but in most states, laws or constitutional amendments would revive the prohibition if the high court decides, as it did with abortion, that such unions are not a constitutionally protected right.

The Guardian - US

There’s an antifeminist backlash silencing women – more and more literally

Powerful men are using defamation lawsuits to shut down allegations against them, and anti-choice groups are trying to pass laws criminalizing speech about abortion

The Conversation

Abortion decision cherry-picks history – when the US Constitution was ratified, women had much more autonomy over abortion decisions than during 19th century

Justice Samuel Alito appears spellbound by the 19th century.

Tribune News Service

If you like what the US Supreme Court just did, you’re going to love the next term

If you like the decisions the U.S. Supreme Court handed down this term, you’re going to be enraptured by what comes next. For the rest of us, though, the worst could be yet to come.

Newsroom.co.nz

Inside the US Supreme Court's perilous lurch to the right

Hayden Thorne examines how conservative judicial activism is reshaping American law in dangerous ways.

The Independent UK

Abortion ruling puts spotlight on gerrymandered legislatures

State legislatures will be in the spotlight as a result of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling giving the power to regulate abortion to the states

WEKU

Doctors weren't considered in Dobbs, but now they're on abortion's legal front lines

In a departure from earlier Supreme Court decisions on abortion, Justice Alito's abortion opinion barely mentions medicine. This creates a perilous new legal reality for doctors, legal analysts say.

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